J.B. Phillips Quotes
The great Easter truth is not that we are to live newly after death - that is not the great thing - but that...we are to, and may, live nobly now because we are to live forever.
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Prayer is not conquering God's reluctance, but taking hold of God's willingness.
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.
If we could sweep intemperance out of the country, there would be hardly poverty enough left to
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.
The way you can recognize to what you are committed to is by your actual results. What you have gotten in life is a direct result (good or bad) to what you have been committed to.
Ultimate stupidity: Mistakenly thinking you will get what you want by complaining about and focusing on exactly what you don't want.
The rewards of art are not always commensurate with its quality. It affords a precarious living.
There's someone out there who needs you. You must live your life so that person can find you.
It so happened that my goals kind of matched my career progression toward becoming an astronaut.
A civilization that only looks inward will stagnate. We have to keep looking outward; we have to keep finding new avenues for human endeavor and human expression.
Yesterday is a memory and tomorrow is a dream. Today is the day to make your mark—to make a difference.
If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.
It is worthwhile for anyone to have behind him a few generations of honest, hard-working ancestry.
It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.
When the sappy boughs Attire themselves with blooms, sweet rudiments Of future harvest.
The penny-papers of New York do more to govern this country than the White House at Washington.
He settled his hat back into position. She was a rookie in her first big game, and he’d never let her see how close she’d come to unseating a champion
The weight is off my shoulders. I don't live in the past anymore. I look forward, instead of back.
Human rights are not worthy of the name if they do not protect the people we don't like as well as those we do.
I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat more. It feels more 'done' when your hair is up.
High School. Society’s bright idea to put all their aggressive, naive youth into one environment to torment and emotionally scar each other for life.
If words are to enter men's minds and bear fruit, they must be the right words shaped cunningly to pass men's defenses and explode silently and effectually within their minds.
It's been a great adventure, everything I hoped for. But it's time to go home. I miss my family. I miss the Earth.
Technology makes things faster and more cost-effective, but it's not perfect. It requires you to be as flexible as you can be.
The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible, even inarticulate, in his work.
It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
The solution to sin is not to impose an ever-stricter code of behavior. It is to know God.
My dad served in two wars has been flying airplanes for 60 years now. He was certainly quite an inspiration.
Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.
To believe in the God over us and around us and not in the God within us - that would be a powerless and fruitless faith.
I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd rather just pick up the phone. Or Skype.
No one who has come to true greatness has not felt in some degree that his life belongs to the people, and what God has given them he gives it for mankind.
We would like to carry out 100 percent, or maybe more, of our scientific program; I would like to devote some of my spare time toward extra scientific work.