J.B. Phillips Quotes

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is a much higher and truer courage.

Revolutions are not made they come.

Christianity is a battle not a dream

0 little town of Bethlehem How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.

Common sense does not ask an impossible chessboard but takes the one before it and plays the game.

What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step toward something better.

What is defeat? Nothing but education nothing but the first step to something better.

What the Puritans gave the world was not thought but action.

As you emphasize your life you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

Health lies in labor and there is no royal road to it but through toil.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him but to call out his best energy that he may be able to bear the burden.

It is only liquid currents of thought that move men and the world.

Law is nothing unless close behind it stands a warm living public opinion.

One on God's side is a majority.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

Let me make the newspapers and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress.

Politics is but the common pulse beat.

Politics is but the common pulsebeat of which revolution is the feverspasm.

If you've got it flaunt it. If you do not pretend.

Power is ever stealing from the many to the few.

As the Greek said "Many men know how to flatter few men know how to praise."

Do not pray for easy lives pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers pray for powers equal to your tasks.

Prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned God-ward.

A prayer in its simplest definition is merely a wish turned heavenward.

Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.

Every step of progress which the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold and from stake to stake.

If you can't believe in God the chances are your God is too small.

Right is the eternal sun the world cannot delay its coming.

Oratory: the art of making deep noises from the chest sound like important messages from the brain.

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy or given up all hope of the Presidency.

Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is living when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger.

Could it be that following our initiatory path and connecting with higher source wisdom might actually be one of our species’ best defense systems?

Why build entirely new systems for connecting to Christ consciousness when the institutions—whether Methodist, Lutheran, or Baptist—have already been created?

Maybe the same essential download was also being delivered to other people—a massive, compassionate battalion of us—at the same time.

What good is a revolution anyway if it isn’t joyful?

There's a punk-rock attitude, clearly, to 'Hated.' There's even a punk-rock attitude to 'The Hangover, ' I think. We start the movie with a Glenn Danzig song.

When we celebrate American independence, we are celebrating the best sense of an idea, a process in process.

I love chicken and anything to do with chicken. I love anything that's homemade. Oh, and BBQ. And I love green beans. There is so much good food. I can go on and on and on.

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, 'Christ is risen, ' but 'I shall rise.'

To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge.

Physical bravery is an animal instinct moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.

Many people are worried about my mental health. But as I've said many times, we're stronger than we think we are.

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Forgiveness is not to give the other person peace. Forgiveness is for you. Take that opportunity.

I think that 'Hangover II' is as funny as 'The Hangover I, ' honest to God, but I think that it's a little bit darker, and the stakes are a little bit higher.

Responsibility educates.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.