J. A. Baker Quotes

Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

Don't try to make children grow up to be like you, or they may do it.

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.

God is universal; confined to no spot, defined by no dogma, appropriated by no sect.

Spiritual teaching must always be by symbols.

Life is always walking up to us and saying, "Come on in, the living's fine," and what do we do? Back off and take its picture.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

It's not so much a thankless task, it's more a job with no thanks

A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump off the Godfather for not going to church on Sunday.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

Just love the one in front of you. Take in the orphan, take in the widow. Just love the one in front of you.

If Christianity is not scientific, and Science is not God, then there is no invariable law, and truth becomes an accident.

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

The time for thinkers has come.

The worst thing about the miracle of modern communications is the Pavlovian pressure it places upon everyone to communicate whenever a bell rings.

I think they must mix blood, otherwise the human race is bound to degenerate. Mixing blood is marvelous. It makes strong and intelligent men. It takes away tired spirits.

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

I've never been a fast reader. I'm fickle; I don't finish books I start; I put a book aside for five, ten years and then take it up again.

We muckraked, not because we hated our world, but because we loved it. We were not hopeless, we were not cynical, we were not bitter.

Under affliction in the very depths, stop and contemplate what you have to be grateful for.

It's human nature to want to think the best of others, but if you listen carefully, people will always tell you who they are.

Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility.

Women must think strategically about creating ongoing pressure for change.

Truth has no beginning.

We dwell amid pinheaded weasels who know only timid, the generic and the abacus.

I have two loves: my country and Paris.

The most difficult thing in any negotiation, almost, is making sure that you strip it of the emotion and deal with the facts.

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee was more politically oriented. Part and parcel of the initial SNCC efforts was to not only go in for voter registration, but for political participation.

CGI has a lot of backlash now. I think it's just because there are so many people doing it. It's a tool and it's only as good as the people behind it.

If ministry is not about compassion and passion, let it die.

The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of changing their views to fit the facts, they try to change the facts to fit their views.

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

Drugs, cataplasms, and whiskey are stupid substitutes for the dignity and potency of divine mind and its efficacy to heal.

You embrace your body in your thought, and you should delineate upon it thoughts of health, not of sickness.

It's funny, in literature no one ever goes to the lavatory.

I don't let people use me. That's why I like a small number of people in my life. The more people in my life, the more complex it becomes, so I just try to keep it at a minimum.

as a society emphasizes and values some aspects of the total range of human potentials more than others, the valued aspects are associated closely with, and limited to, the dominant group's domain.

Spirit, God, gathers unformed thoughts into their proper channels, and unfolds these thoughts, even as He opens the petals of a holy purpose in order that the purpose may appear.

I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.

We are the natural nurturers of the Earth Mother. The Earth Mother needs our help, she needs our prayers. We need to educate the women of the world that prayer works.

Conflict is inevitable, the source of all growth, and an absolute necessity if one is to be alive.

People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.

I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely.

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost.

Renunciation is not getting rid of the things of this world, but accepting that they pass away.

If God is not with us, we do not want to continue. If the Sermon on the Mount is simply impractical, our mission work is hopeless. We have no backup plan. We have nothing but Him.

Lulled by stupefying illusions, the world is asleep in the cradle of infancy, dreaming away the hours.

God dislikes evil, and no happiness can be built on hate. Love one another as brothers.

Listen once in a while. It's amazing what you can hear.

Man and woman as coexistent and eternal with God forever reflect, in glorified quality, the infinite Father-Mother God.