J. A. Baker Quotes

My life is pretty hectic, but I'm really into it.

During the Depression years, I began to identify to some extent with the unemployed, the organization for the unemployed at that period.

You are God's dream with skin on

In spring, nature is like a thrifty housewife ... taking up the white carpets and putting down the green ones.

Father-Mother is the name for Deity.

Time has nothing to do with the gifts that the gods give you; it's what you do.

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

The human sigh for peace and love is answered and compensated by divine love.

To infinite, ever present Love, all is Love, and there is no error, no sin sickness, nor death.

Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental in-harmony.

The sharp experiences of belief in the supposititious life of matter, as well as our disappointments and ceaseless woes, turn us like tired children to the arms of divine Love.

In the midst of depressing care and labor I turn constantly to divine Love for guidance, and find rest.

I have a lot of interests.

I don't want to grow up, I want to grow down

psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

Haven't you felt a peculiar sort of worry about the chair in your living room that no one sits in?

There's different kinds of love, darling. Some people you love no matter what, and others you love when the situation is right. To me, the best kind of love is no matter what kind.

Sickness is a belief, which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.

If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.

Ideas are spiritual, harmonious and eternal

Our practice is not to clear up the mystery. It is to make the mystery clear.

Complaint is poverty.

[Martin Luther] King was one of the two young ministers - and you know how directly oriented the Negro community still is towards the minister as the leader.

Time goes a lot quicker when the work is a lot more enjoyable.

Jealousy is the grave of affection.

I wanted to get far away from those who believed in cruelty, so then I went to France, a land of true freedom, democracy, equality and fraternity.

Literary commercialism is lowering the intellectual standard to accommodate the purse and to meet a frivolous demand for amusement instead of for improvement.

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.

God told me once, 'I want you to come up to the lowest place.'

It's not appeasement to talk to your enemies.

The only currency that will heal every culture is ceaseless love. To be a minister, we must walk like Jesus, talk like Jesus, and be like Jesus for a broken and dying world.

Sin makes its own hell, and goodness its own heaven.

Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist.

Ministry is simply about loving the person in front of you.

Healing the Earth, through Healing Birth.

I'm picking and choosing in terms of the stress factor. If it's not fun, I'm not going to do it.

Successful gardening is doing what has to be done when it has to be done the way it ought to be done whether you want to do it or not.

The sinister nature of the American soil is apparent in places like Gettysburg. Fertilize it with the blood of heros, and it brings forth a frozen-custard stand.

Oh, you young people act like old men. You have no fun.

I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing, most of the girls we hung out with would be topless.

I love watching American League games, you know what I mean?

God is incorporeal, divine, supreme, infinite Mind, Spirit, Soul, Principle, life, Truth, Love.

Keepers of light carry invisible candles of hope, touching hearts and illuminating the souls of friends.

I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other and consequently love each other.

Defeatism about the feasibility of plans for disarmament and ordered peace has been the most calamitious of all the errors made by democratic governments in modern times.

Back through the ages of barbarism and civilization, in all tongues, we find this instinctive pleasure in the imitative action that is the very essence of all drama.

I'm not sure where my career is going here in Cincinnati.

But steel bars have never yet kept out a mob; it takes something a good deal stronger: human courage backed up by the consciousness of being right.

The only people I ever felt intimidated by in my whole life were Bob Gibson and my Daddy.

Everybody knows something, and nobody knows everything.