I. J. Good Quotes
The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.
Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.
The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.
Why are we talking about this good and evil? They're just names for sides. We know that.
Remember, aid cannot achieve the end of poverty. Only homegrown development base on the dynamism of individuals and firms in free markets can do that.
Waiting is an exercise of faith that demonstrates the condition of our hearts. Waiting on God is an act of faith. And faith is what separates the men from the boys.
His parents called him Youngster. They did this in the subconcious hope that he might take the hint. Wensleydale gave the impression of having been born with a mental age of 47.
Live your life, no matter what that life is.
You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.
The laboratory evidence that carbohydrate-rich diets can cause the body to reain water and so raise blood pressure, just as salt consumption is supposed to do, dates back well over a century
Since that night I have come to understand that sometimes the best families of all are those we create ourselves, the people we choose to be with.
The voice of Love seemed to call to me, but it was a wrong number.
Chance favors the connected mind.
When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.
Someday, I hope that we will all be patriots of our planet and not just of our respective nations.
Don't ever be discouraged with yourself because you have not arrived at success, but instead be pleased that you are pressing toward it.
We must go out into a desert of some kind (your backyard will do) and come into a personal experience of the awesome love of God.
The purpose of bureaucracy is to compensate for incompetence and lack of discipline.
As Shakespeare says, if you're going to do a thing you might as well pop right at it and get it over.
Honest, open communication is the only street that leads us into the real world... We then begin to grow as never before. And once we are on this road, happiness cannot be far away.
Just be honest and true to yourself. If your friends around you love you, they'll wish you the best and want only what's going to make you happy.
It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.
Unseen in the background, Fate was quietly slipping lead into the boxing-glove.
Now I no longer wish to be loved, beautiful, happy or successful. I want one thing and one thing only - to be left alone.
Old ideas can sometimes use new buildings. New ideas must use old buildings.
The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table.
The mind is left bereft when it is nothing more than a tool of regurgitation.
The temptation of the age is to look good without being good.
I don't have to tell you I love you. I fed you pancakes.
If you're alive, kick into drive. Chase whimsies. See if you can turn dreams into a way to make a living, if not an entire way of life.
I obviously do everything to be "hard to understand" myself
The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved.
Genuine self-acceptance is not derived from the power of positive thinking, mind games or pop psychology. IT IS AN ACT OF FAITH in the God of grace.
I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.
It's not how good you are, it's how good you want to be.
Make sure your desire to do what you're aspiring to do is deeper than just fame and being a celebrity.
Actions speak louder than words. And sometimes inaction speaks louder than both of them.
No past to make us sentimental, no future to embarrass us...a difficult moment when you are out of practice - a moment that makes you go cold, cold and wary.
Sacredness binds people together, and then blinds them to the arbitrariness of the practice.
Ragamuffins are simple, direct and honest. Their speech is unaffected. They are slow to claim, "God told me..." As they make their way through the world, they bear wordless, prophetic witness.
Without devotion any life becomes a stranger's story...told for the body to forget what it once loved.
I have been seized by the power of a great affection.
When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.