J. H. Evans Quotes

Prayer is the means by which God has established for God's people to invite the spiritual into the physical, and the invisible realm into the visible realm.

I don't know any form of art or entertainment that can affect people the way movies can. I know it sounds ridiculous, but they can change your world. They can change your views.

The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

God can take your most monstrous failures and turn them into triumphs such as you never could imagine.

Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest.

I am single and not looking to be in a relationship.

Everyone who got to where they are had to begin where they were.

If God gave you a strong personality it's for serving others not controlling them.

The best marriage in the world is two servants in love. The worst marriage in the world is two masters in love.

But my happiness in this world - my level of peace - is never going to be dictated by acting.

I can’t believe I was almost too chicken to play Captain America.

Faith doesn't make sense. It makes miracles.

...even the most horribl e of nightmares is laced with the promise of dawn.

Prayer! I couldn't live without it; I would have died a thousand times if it had not been for my chance to talk it over with God, and gain strength in it from him.

Christianity isn't meant to simply be believed; it's meant to be lived, shared, eaten, spoken, and enacted in the presence of other people.

What makes the Gospel offensive isn’t who it keeps out, but who it lets in.

A kingdom man is a man who visibly demonstrates the comprehensive rule of God underneath the Lordship of Jesus Christ in every area of his life.

War should be made a crime, and those who instigate it should be punished as criminals.

I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation.

God's ways are higher than our ways not because he is less compassionate than we are but because he is more compassionate than we can ever imagine.

What does a woman want? More.

Your direction is more important than your speed.

I like wet hair and sweatpants. I like sneakers and ponytails.

Documentary: That’s a sophisticated and misleading word. And not really clear… The term should be documentary style… You see, a document has use, whereas art is really useless.

Work is the best wonder drug ever devised by God. Work is as necessary to man as eating and sleeping. Pleasure derived from labor is the sweetest of all pleasures.

Denial, perhaps, is a necessary human mechanism to cope with the heartaches of life.

One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.

I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our challenges and difficulties, but rather, precisely because of them.

Faith isn't about having everything figured out ahead of time; faith is about following the quiet voice of God without having everything figured out ahead of time.

I weep at everything. I love things so much - I just never want to dilute that.

Dressing a baby is like putting an octopus into a string bag, making sure none of the arms hang out.

The meaning of quality in photography's best pictures lies written in the language of vision. That language is learned by chance, not system.

I swear to God, if you saw me when I am by myself in the woods, I'm a lunatic. I sing, I dance.

I am not gone but merely walk within you.

One of the greatest accomplishments in this world would be that of lifting human hearts. Blessed are they who are kind and considerate of the feelings of other people.

God designed husbands and wives to complete each other, not to compete with each other.

The eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

Look at pictures of me growing up. It wasn't always the way it is now. It was a bumpy road for me.

I don't know what's wrong with that girl.

If we never had any storms, we couldn't appreciate the sunshine.

Keep in mind that God's sovereignty allows Him to even use that which is not cooperating with Him (the bad) in order to move things to where He wants them to go.

Much of the beauty of Christmas lies in its challenge to look further, deeper, until we find its secret in the heart of God. But we never find that unless we look beyond the presents under the tree.

I lay in the bed at the hospital and said, 'let's see what I have left.' And I could see, I could speak, I could think, I could read. I simply tabulated my blessings, and that gave me a start.

The first lesson in civics is that efficient government begins at home.

I think the secret to a hoppy life is a selective memory. Remember what you are most grateful for and quickly forget what your not.

Authors are magpies, echoing each other's words and seizing avidly on anything that glitters.

Anyone who's had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you're walking out the door, you're planning the next.

It is better to be loved by one person who knows your soul than millions who don't even know your phone number.

A man who sacrifices for his wife and serves her becomes much more attractive to her.

My interpretation can only be as inerrant as I am, and that's good to keep in mind.