J. L. B. Smith Quotes

Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.

But, strictly speaking, this mythology was no essential part of ancient religion, for it had no sacred sanction and no binding force on the worshippers.

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.

God cannot approve of a system of servitude, in which the master is guilty of assuming absolute power - of assuming God's place and relation towards his fellow-men.

I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.

I think we invent jargon because it saves times talking to one-another.

Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali.

After all that has been said, the greatest and most important duty is to preach the Gospel

I wondered if I would talk about drug use. But I guess, why hide it?

Although I do wrong, I do not the wrongs that I am charged with doing; the wrong that I do is through the frailty of human nature, like other men. No man lives without fault.

It's better to be prepared than to get ready.

People think they know all these things about other people, and if you ask them why they think they know that, it'd be hard for them to be convincing.

All your secret wishes could right now be coming true.

You can cry, ain't no shame in it.

Doing battle with themselves that way, every day, all the time and sometimes it sucks, but other times it results in people making sort of a dream comprehensible to someone else.

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.

No man can receive the Holy Ghost without receiving revelations. The Holy Ghost is a revelator.

In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.

My femininity is always something I've tried to preserve in this dog-eat-dog world.

We cannot be saved until we have risen above all our enemies, not the least of which is ignorance.

The greatest responsibility in this world that God has laid upon us is to seek after our dead.

Truth does not appease but inflames the curiosity.

I could explain a hundred fold more than I ever have of the glories of the kingdoms manifested to me in the vision, were I permitted, and were the people prepared to receive them.

I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer.

It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

I am terribly clumsy, so there is a plethora of walking into lamp-posts, falling over, dropping things, and ruining sofas.

As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.

I'm interested in how a lot of people pull objects together to form an environment that we feel reflects ourselves or makes us feel comfortable.

Amy Pond, there's something you'd better understand about me 'cause it's important, and one day your life may depend on it: I am definitely a mad man with a box!

When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.

The fact that you've got zombies in this movie allows you to make slightly bolder choices tonally.

Amy Pond is, er...I've sort of fallen in love with Amy Pond.

History will only ever be partial, to a large extent history tells us what we think should be remembered and what should be forgotten, I find that really problematic.

I am a fancy dress grump, to be honest.

A lot of times, people have forgotten about an album by the time it's released, because it leaked three months earlier. Very strange days we live in.

...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.

Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.

... to became neighbours and friends instead of journalists. This is the way to make your finest photographs.

Being truly aimless is like being dead. It may even be the same thing, or worse. It is the aimless who find the wrong roads, and drive down them, simply because they have nowhere else to go.

Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great definition. . . Charity: The ability to love the sinner and hate the sin.

With considerable soul searching, that to the utmost of my ability, I have let truth be the prejudice.

After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

I believe people are afraid to be still because we're used to being stimulated.

I've said to others that there were places I had forgotten about that were just so powerful. I've read the Gospels many times, but it's been a while since I've read through a whole book

For some reason, and for a time such as this, God has given me favor with kings and princes.

Doing the instrumental thing, you're really looking for the power of the melody to carry the record.

The French selectors never do anything by halves; for the first international of the season against Ireland they dropped half the three-quarter line.