J.D. Young Quotes

There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. [ - worthy of enjoying by knowing it could have been worse.]

Any experience can be transformed into something of value. Everything depends on the way you look at things. You cannot have the success without the failures.

A truth discovered always seems so plain and simple that we wonder why the discovery was so long delayed.

It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

I don't care if I have to run 100 times or pass it 100 times, ... Whatever it takes to win is all that matters to me.

I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary.

I'll forever be a Longhorn.

I could have been a Vincent Young y'all know nothing about. I was on the wrong road, and it was a hard, hard time.

My confidence level is a tremendous high.

I feel like I accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish in college.

Man, Coach Brown, he's so relaxed. We've seen that guy dancing this week at practice and he's dancing in the locker room. It brings tears to guys' eyes and brings happiness to everybody.

Preparation is the biggest key right now.

Whatever it takes to get everybody loose, I'm going to do it!

I can do whatever it takes to win.

All I have to do is play football now.

People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.

There are a lot of guys who have terrible throwing motions-worse than mine. But they still get the ball downfield. That's all that matters.

Hard work has paid off a whole lot.

I'm way different than I was last year. You learn something new every year. I learned a whole lot from last season and a whole lot from this season. I'm still learning.

Disconnect your identity from what you produce, and that’s a hard thing for us because we think of our significance, worth and value based on what we do instead of who we are.

Love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.

Image and appearance tell you little. The inside is bigger than the outside when you have the eyes to see.

I'm trying to get far away from [picturing God as] Gandalf or Santa Claus.

Jesus was always challenging the dogma of religion. So, you know, it's not like I'm out there by myself.

I'm not an actual author but an accidental one.

I was raised in a tribal situation, among cannibal people.

Emotions talked to you before you had words, so listen to them ... they are often more honest than the mind's remarkable ability to self deceive.

I'm an accidental writer.

Responsibilites and expectations are the basis of guilt and shame and judgement, and they provide the essential framework that promotes performance as the basis for identity and value.

mistakes are a part of life, and Papa works her purpose in them too.

This life is only the anteroom of a greater reality to come.

Nothing in life is ritual.

Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.

He was sick of God and God's religion, sick of all the little religious social clubs that didn't seem to make any real difference or affect any real changes.

It wasn't long ago I was cleaning toilets and now I have protestors. How cool is this?

It is impossible for you to take power over the future because it isn't even real...

The enemy of a writer is not controversy but obscurity.

Today's minor irritations may become tomorrow's treasured memories. We often don't know what we are missing, until it's missing.

Authority, as you usually think of it, is merely the excuse the strong use to make others conform to what they want.

Paradigms power perceptions, perceptions power emotions.

Sometimes honesty can be incredibly messy

And the Law that once contained impossible demands -- Thou Shalt Not... -- actually becomes a promise we fulfill in you.

Thank goodness there are women in our lives -- that's all I can say. We get saved by the women in our lives.

I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.

I often find that getting head issues out of the way first makes the heart stuff easier to work on later.

There is only one race ... and it is human!

I give you an ability to respond and your response is to be free to love and serve in every situation, and therefore each moment is different and unique and wonderful.