J.B. Phillips Quotes

Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or a realization of our duty and privilege as one of God's children.

The real thing is that sweet joy you feel when you're in the midst of it.

Lovers, of course, are notoriously frantic epistemologists, second only to paranoiacs (and analysts) as readers of signs and wonders.

We’re all works in progress, honey. And believe me when I tell you that I’ve had to work harder than most.

ignore the pain, play through it.

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

Men like women who are fun to be around, who are kind, intelligent, honest and who don't play games.

Loyalty, up and down the line. That's one quality an organization must have to be successful.

Luminosity is a quality dependent as much on technique as on the physical properties of individual pigments.

Style is instinctive and few achieve it in a notable degree. Its development is not hastened by instruction. It comes or it doesn't. It will take care of itself.

You've got to show the world who you are before it tells you. Otherwise you become victim to someone you're not.

Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.

The work resembles a breech delivery-one which is expressed in rhythmic lurches, stabs of phrase and vocal ornamentation designed to express agitation rather than decorative grace.

The more man becomes irradiated with Divinity, the more, not the less, truly he is man.

A Local Government Stationery Store is something to behold. It's like walking through the back of a cupboard into a really dull Narnia.

Everywhere the flower of obedience is intelligence. Obey a man with cordial loyalty and you will understand him.

There is nothing more terrorizing than the possibility that nothing is hidden. There is nothing more scandalous than a happy marriage

Transgression is a quest for solitude

To have a functioning body and not to use it is like having 20/20 vision and never opening your eyes.

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

The road to the Super Bowl runs through Pittsburgh, sooner or later you've got to go to Pittsburgh.

When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.

Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. (When asked if he noticed how slowly Earl Campbell got up after each play.)

Christianity is a battle, not a dream.

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.

Preaching is truth through personality.

I always thought I could coach. I just thought people were poor judges of good coaches.

I thought I did until I looked at some old game films. (When asked if he played college football)

Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.

Many cherish the idea that a photograph is an exact presentment of nature, and accept without question the paradox that a photograph cannot lie. Actually there never was a more unmitigated liar.

We are haunted by an ideal life, and it is because we have within us the beginning and the possibility of it.

I believe that what it is I have been called to do will make itself known when I have made myself ready.

Feed on Christ, and then go and live your life, and it is Christ in you that lives your life, that helps the poor, that tells the truth, that fights the battle, and that wins the crown.

To be an aritst is not to wait for others to define us, but to define ourselves, claim our lives.

The foundation of success is intense desire.

The form of godliness may exist with secret and with open wickedness, but the power of godliness cannot.

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

Agitation prevents rebellion, keeps the peace, and secures progress. Every step she gains is gained forever. Muskets are the weapons of animals. Agitation is the atmosphere of the brains.

The earth has grown old with its burden of care, But at Christmas it always is young.

Pray for powers equal to your tasks.

The faith which you keep must be a faith that demands obedience, and you can keep it only by obeying it.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

It is not in the nature of lenses to tell the whole truth. They are instruments of exaggeration and belittlement.

Take away a painter's vanity, said a famous landscape painter, and he will never touch a pencil again.

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

When you nourish your body with pure energy, you transform from the inside out.

Obedience completes itself in understanding.

By the time I turned 18, I moved into a little chalet of my own and felt very grown-up.

Like a stone thrown into a pond, a good deed can create ripples that extend far beyond the initial splash.