J.R. Miller Quotes

To paint is to love again, and to love is to live life to the fullest.

I never thought life would be this sweet, It got me cheesing from cheek to cheek.

This world is not a place merely to live in, nor a place in which to do certain kinds of business; it is a great workshop in which to make godly men.

There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation.

Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.

Men say, "By pride the angels fell from heaven." By pride they reached a place from which they fell!

The fundament of a superhero is the guy in tights saving innocent people from bad things. It's amazing how infrequently that seems to happen in superhero comics these days.

I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

What is an artist? He's a man who has antennae, who knows how to hook up to the currents which are in atmosphere, in the cosmos.

psychological growth is the great gift and inexorable fact of human life.

The more I try to impress people, the more I separate myself from them. Vulnerability attracts love.

There are two types of men in this world--one is looking for a woman to make his life complete and the other is looking for a woman to join his complete life.

We are swimming on the face of time and all else has drowned, is drowning, or will drown.

One should be embarrassed to speak of God in the third person.

Every word carries its own surprises and offers its own rewards to the reflective mind.

The punt returner got smacked like Nancy Kerrigan's knee on souvenir pipe night.

Women say they have sexual thoughts too. They have no idea. It's the difference between shooting a bullet and throwing it. If they knew what we were really thinking, they'd never stop slapping us.

Bless me Father, I ate a lizard.

We don't think of our flaws as the glue that binds us to the people we love, but they are. Grace only sticks to your imperfections.

I feel that all revolutionary causes should start with addressing misogyny.

I wrote a book called The Taste of New Wine because I couldn't find a book that talked about the reality of the situation and how we were dishonest and afraid.

Sometimes I see the world for how f-ked up it really is. I tell myself I'll be the one to make a change in it. I could die tonight; not make it to the sunrise, then I couldn't hear the pain in it.

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble.

Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.

It is not such a fiercesome thing to lead once you see your leadership as part of God's overall plan for His world.

The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

I haven't a great Jazz band and I don't want one.

I have no money, no resources, no hopes. I am the happiest man alive.

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals

What a pity human beings can't exchange problems. Everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow's.

He is a weapon, a killer. Do not forget it. You can use a spear as a walking stick, but that will not change its nature.

There's a genius part of you that wants to create. That part of you wants to talk to God. Get out of the way.

If we have not found heaven within, it is a certainty we will not find it without.

I think this is what college is all about: self-examination and dealing with those questions of "Who am I?"

The next time you get the urge to shut somebody up because they don't see the world exactly the same way you do, take a deep breath, get out your Bill of Rights, and count to the ten amendments.

It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

Nobody ever heard Jack Nicklaus say "I don't know" about anything.

Quiet people keep thier secrets to themselves. That's what makes them interesting...and usually worth the wait.

Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

Music is a beautiful opiate, if you don't take it too seriously.

I am discovering that in trying to find God's will and the shape of the Christian life I have begun an adventure so great that its total completion will always be ahead.

I'm a bit retarded, like most Americans.

We produce destructive people by the way we are treating them in childhood.

UNDER THE STORM AND THE CLOUD TODAY, AND TODAY THE HARD PERIL AND PAIN - TOMORROW THE STONE WILL BE ROLLED AWAY, FOR THE SUNSHINE SHALL FOLLOW THE RAIN

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

I'm glad I don't have a lot of money in the market. And quite frankly, you'd be better off giving your money to a colorblind roulette addict than put it in the stock market.

We leaders are criticized for a lot of things. It's always true after a band gets up there and is recognized by the public.

Success depends upon staying power. The reason for failure in most cases is lack of perseverance.

I'm like Bush, I see the world more like checkers than chess.

When I was in love there was somebody in the world who was more important than me, and that, given all that happened at the fall of man, is a miracle, like something God forgot to curse.