J.B. Phillips Quotes

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

It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad.

To grow up is to discover what one is unequal to.

Set yourself earnestly to see what you are made to do, and then set yourself earnestly to do it.

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair, if you're going to San Francisco, you're gonna meet some gentle people there.

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."

Genius, by its very intensity, decrees a special path of fire for its vivid power.

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

The trouble with most coaches is that they start with the assumption that everybody is a turd. And that ain't right.

The harder we played, the behinder we got.

Water is the most expressive element in nature. It responds to every mood from tranquility to turbulence.

Christ is the aperture through which the immensity and magnificence of God can be seen.

Chris Chandler is the best performance poet I have ever seen.

I don't need the news. If they have a war, I figure someone will tell me.

Do not think me fussy when I specify tidiness. It is essential... In printing, remember that cleanliness and order wait upon success.

I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather than a hat.

People who are angry at themselves sometimes blame others. It's a sign of immaturity.

Because a jackass brays doesn't mean you have to take it to heart.

When you've been around a snake long enough, you learn how to crawl in the dirt.

I guess we're oil and water. (Phoebe) I'd say we're more like gasoline and a blowtorch. (Dan)

If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Difference of religion breeds more quarrels than difference of politics.

It is really not how much you can get out of life that matters; it is how much you can put into it that counts. What will you contribute to life today?

The child can find out what the object ..might be only by finding ..obstacles to its access

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism.

I've made this decision not to talk to the press about anything that's gone on in my life, but just to write music about it. They can interpret it themselves.

I always carry a pair of scissors around with me to cut things out of magazines.

I believe that the Source from which we come is alive in us as our breath, and as we speak and sing and breathe, we release the beauty of the Creator into the world.

One on God's side is a majority.

Rogers sees daylight. Campbell makes daylight.

Very strange is this quality of our human nature which decrees that unless we feel a future before us we do not live completely in the present.

Sometimes I only hope to make a good popcorn movie.

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

I think it's going to be a very important, unique data set in terms of measuring the behavior of your lower body in space and trying to figure out what we can do to preserve bone and muscle density.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you.

Boredom, after all, is a form of criticism.

When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.

Revolutions never go backwards.

Call your opinions your creed, and you will change it every week.

We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion.

I never scrimmage Oilers against Oilers...What for? Houston isn't on our schedule.

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

Many men know how to flatter, few men know how to praise.

If you want to be an orator, first get your great cause.

Education is the only interest worthy the deep, controlling anxiety of the thoughtful man.

Aristocracy is always cruel.

Most of the time, the creative part is like playing in a sandbox. I can sit here and work for 12 hours and not get tired of it.