J. J. Johnson Quotes
Read over your compositions and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Heaven invades earth when there is agreement here to what exists there. Honestly, that's how it happens.
Whether consciously or not, sexist God language undermines the human equality of women made in the divine image and likeness.
We have been given the privilege and responsibility of living on Earth to see it isn't ruined.
There are a lot of male egos out there that cannot deal with highly successful women. And it's their problem.
If there's anything worse than being 16, it's having parents visibly reliving their own teenage years in your anguished presence.
Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us.
Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.
Between falsehood and useless truth there is little difference. As gold which he cannot spend will make no man rich, so knowledge which cannot apply will make no man wise.
It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.
Poverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.
When you don't have to ask for permission innovation thrives.
Mothering/nurturing is a vital force and process establishing relationships throughout the universe.
The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
When I started graduate school I was interested in the culture of the Civil Rights Movement.
Love is a disease of the heartin the end, there is no treatment curable and it might just kill you.
A good use for me is to let me go away with my sewing machine and come back with some really new stuff.
Sadly when I want someone to hold me and tell me everything is going to be alright, I have no one. I miss you so much and I wish there was someone to love me when I am down.
If you're I politics and you can't tell when you walk into a room who's for you and who's against you, then you're in the wrong line of work.
As a forgiven son, I am justified, cleansed, washed clean. This is a greater reality than my sinful past.
All envy is proportionate to desire; we are uneasy at the attainments of another, according as we think our own happiness would be advanced by the addition of that which he withholds from us.
A private victory leads to a public victory and a corporate blessing, because God turns His face toward those who will demonstrate character when no one is looking.
Serving reconnects people to purpose. Serving someone else's dream empowers not just us, but them.
The fact that a man is a newspaper reporter is evidence of some flaw of character.
Faith is not opposed to the mind. It’s superior to the mind which is why the renewed mind enhances faith.
You can go one block to the next in San Francisco and get a completely different opinion of what the issue is.
I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.
I believe it will be found that those who marry late are best pleased with their children; and those who marry early, with their partners.