J.M. Green Quotes

I think inspiration is always around; it's just a question of whether or not you're noticing it.

Kids are dying from causes of sexual activity. You're not going to find a tombstone stating that Frankie died because he was a virgin.

But that part of us greater than the sum of our parts cannot begin and cannot end, and so it cannot fail

We are greater than the sum of our parts.

Teach success before teaching responsibility. Teach them to believe in themselves. Teach them to think, 'I'm not stupid'. No child wants to fail. Everyone wants to succeed.

Trials can be hard, if you don't know God.

Some people believe that fairness comes with obeying the rules. I'm one of those people.

If the world ever advances beyond what it is today, it must be led by men who express their real opinions.

Design is more than meets the eye. Design is about communicating benefits. Design is not about designers. Design is not an ocean it's a fishbowl. Design is creating something you believe in.

Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.

Truth is the mother of joy. Truth civilizes, ennobles and purifies. The grandest ambition that can enter the soul is to know the truth.

This is my creed: Happiness is the only good; reason the only torch; justice the only worship, humanity the only religion, and love the only priest.

I'm still learning, but I can see there are decisions in life that are going to be very challenging and it's always better to get through them, always.

The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

For myself, I have but little confidence in any business, or enterprise, or investment, that promises dividends only after the death of the stockholders.

To be like other people is to be unlike ourselves.

Do we fear suffering or apathy most? Is it from experience or the monotony of a commonplace existence that we quickest flee?

Maybe we're grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is still alive.

I considered myself a professional comedian because the club would pay me $20.

I have always noticed that the people who have the smallest souls make the most fuss about getting them saved.

...it’s not just the person who fills a house, it’s their I’ll be back later!s, their toothbrushes and unused hats and coats, their belongingnesses.

This one's for Alaska Young!

It seemed like forever ago, like we've had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

I wasn't good company, that was true, and people avoided me, but that was all right. I was too busy dreaming.

Nerd life is just so much better than regular life.

You will not kill my girlfriend today, International Terrorists of Ambiguous Nationality!

I believe humans have souls, and I believe in the conservation of souls.

Truth is naturally universal...and shines into many different windows, though many are clouded.

We just did an awesome job of not dying.

I hated sports. I hated sports, and I hated people who played them, and I hated people who watched them, and I hated people who didn't hate people who watched or played them.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.

I've never known before what it feels like to want someone - not to want to hook up with them or whatever, but to want them, to want them. And now I do. So maybe I do believe in epiphanies.

I don't know, I don't want to talk as much. (...) It's nicer to think dear, pretty thoughts and keep them in one's heart, like treasures. I don't like to have them laughed at or wondered over.

I learned more stuff in church than I did in the world.

You do not immortalize the lost by writing about them. Language buries, but does not resurrect.

I don't know how I look, but I know how I feel: Young. Goofy. Infinite.

The way I figure it, everyone gets a miracle.

The marks humans leave are too often scars.

Honesty is the mother of confidence; it unites, combines and solidifies society. Dishonesty is disintegration; it destroys confidence; it brings social chaos. . . .

Ignorance worships mystery; reason explains it; the one grovels, the other soars.

I don't sell dope, I sell hope.

No man with a sense of humor ever founded a religion.

Dude, you're such a geek. And that's coming from an overweight Star Trek fan who scored a 5 on the AP Calculus test. So you know your condition is grave

Entropy increases. Things fall apart.

It is an old habit with theologians to beat the living with the bones of the dead.

I got really lucky when I found somebody that I want to be friends with forever.

Jesus didn't come to save us just from the penalty of our sins; he came to save us from our sins - now, today, if we will only respond to the challenge and let him.

Somehow we just dont make the same boisterous fun of Holy Week that we do of Christmas. No one plans to have a holly, jolly Easter.