J. F. C. Fuller Quotes

There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.

There is enough for everyone. People think that there isn't enough, so they get as much as they can, so many people don't have enough.

Dr. Thomas Fuller wrote: "With foxes, we must play the fox".

Many come to bring their clothes to church rather than themselves.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.

To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.

I do not look upon human beings as good or bad.

It is the integrity of each individual human that is in final examination. On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

None of the world's problems will have a solution until the world's individuals become thoroughly self-educated.

Integrity is the courage and self-discipline to cooperate and initiate according to the Divine, which you know in your heart as Truth.

I have tried raising money by asking for it, and by not asking for it. I always got more by asking for it.

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.

To know the Word of God, to live the Word of God, to preach the Word, to teach the Word, is the sum of all wisdom, the heart of all Christian service.

When individuals join in a cooperative venture, the power generated far exceeds what they could have accomplished acting individually.

War is obsolete. We are not here to fight something or tear something down; We are here to be the example of what is possible. Any sane individual will tell you that violence is ... not the way.

Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.

Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning knife.

Good is not good, where better is expected

We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.

You know how you smoke out a sniper? You send a guy out in the open, and you see if he gets shot. They thought that one up at West Point

The only safe investment one can make in life is what is given away.

Faith must become more than a verbal proclamation or an intellectual assent. True faith must be acted out.

It is said that the darkest hour of the night comes just before the dawn.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night.

The character and history of each child may be a new and poetic experience to the parent, if he will let it.

The wave is not the water. The water merely told us about the wave moving by.

The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.

The civilized man is a larger mind but a more imperfect nature than the savage.

Men are more prone to revenge injuries than to requite kindness.

Abused patience turns to fury.

If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

There is something patently insane about all the typewriters sleeping with all the beautiful plumbing in the beautiful office buildings -and all the people sleeping in the slums.

We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

We should stop kidding ourselves. We should let go of things that aren't true. It's always better with the truth.

Good clothes open all doors.

There is only one revolution tolerable to all men, all societies, all political systems: Revolution by design and invention.

God is a verb, not a noun.

If success or failure of this planet and of human beings depended on how I am and what I do... HOW WOULD I BE? WHAT WOULD I DO?

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Faith without works is as dead as a doornail.

We need to hear the excuses men make to themselves for their worthlessness.

On personal integrity hangs humanity's fate

Television is the third parent.

Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well; but their manners should be of the greatest concern.