J.R. Miller Quotes

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

One can only remember what has been consciously experienced.

I am positively against all this crap which is carried on first in the name of this thing, then in the name of that. I believe only in what is active, immediate, and personal.

I find that if I pray for the people I'm most angry with, my anger turns into something more redemptive.

If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.

Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.

Emotional access to the truth is the indispensable precondition of healing.

I favour passive investing for most investors, because markets are amazingly successful devices for incorporating information into stock prices.

Modeling is the most powerful of all teachers!

Where I come from, deeds mean a lot more than words.

It is the climbing of the mountain that makes the view from the top so breathtaking.

Jazz is one of the few things you can do in society and express yourself freely and creatively.

I am of the order whose purpose is not to teach the world a lesson but to explain that school is over.

Thanksgiving is nothing if not a glad and reverent lifting of the heart to God in honor and praise for His goodness.

O woman, born first to believe us; Yea, also born first to forget; Born first to betray and deceive us, Yet first to repent and regret.

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.

I'm living my dream, and that's all you can ask for. At a certain point, you have to ignore all the rest.

Blame and victim thinking are so ingrained into the fabric of our society it's hard to find a role model anywhere who simply practices personal accountability in all things.

Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.

I can now successfully drive a stick. That's a huge accomplishment.

That man who lives for self alone, Lives for the meanest mortal known.

Decision-making is a skill. Wisdom is a leadership trait.

The death penalty is becoming a way of life in this country.

A small man can be just as exhausted as a great man.

I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.

Many talk about a guest worker program. I think most reasonable people believe that a guest worker program in the farming industry, perhaps in the gardening and landscape industries, is reasonable.

Nobody is so weird others can't identify with them.

I had a microscopic eye for the blemish, for the grain of ugliness which to me constituted the sole beauty of the object.

Don't be so defensive and afraid to be proven wrong that you miss the opportunity to learn from your mistakes.

All this beauty exists so you and I can see His glory, His artwork. It's like an invitation to worship Him, to know Him.

I asked God to help me understand the story of the forest and what it means to be a tree in that story.

If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.

If I can make someone laugh, I lift them out of their fundamentally tragic existence.

I've fallen prey to my fair share of moments of the phobias of others and the way that that can become an attack.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world

Their offense is shakier than Katherine Hepburn after an all-night espresso bender at Starbucks.

I'm very pleased with being a part of the Bean Pole family. It's a relationship that makes sense to me. I'm very pleased to have my name associated with Bean Pole Jeans.

I didn't come to Hollywood to get on magazine covers or start my Porsche collection or to enjoy that kind of lifestyle, to go to the right parties and meet the right people.

Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

With a nation at war against terrorism and our men and women on the front line defending our homeland from abroad, resources need to be prioritized and allocated properly.

I spend my weekends sleeping and watching DVDs, and eating at restaurants within a 2-block radius of my apartment.

And I've always been paranoid. I can remember as a baby my mother would spin the mobile above my head and thinking..."yeah, that's coming down."

All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.

I can take $15,000 a year and raise kids on that. Later, they'll figure out I've got millions, but hopefully they'll have the values to say, 'So what?

I don't want to talk about the specifics of other people's performances compared with my own. I'd never do that.

I'm not so sure he's mad, Father. Just a little devious in his sanity.

I'm a Christian woman, but I believe in human rights.

That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.

But recently it seems that each time I vote, I am being asked to compromise my conservative ideals and my commitment to the American taxpayer simply for the benefit of political gain.

As a strong supporter of our 2nd Amendment rights, I believe tougher enforcement of our nation's existing gun laws must be done before any more laws are enacted and put on the books.