J.V. Hart Quotes

In the Lord's Prayer, Jesus offers more than God's personal email or private cell number - He offers us a heart transplant.

Preaching Christ's truth always bears fruit. Of course, some people will probably end up wanting to throw that fruit at you.

Many of us want to know why we don't "hear" God when we pray. Few of us shut up long enough to really listen.

Sunday doesn't just prepare us for the week ahead - it prepares us for eternity.

Maybe if we said that sin causes cancer, people would take it more seriously.

Some people say, "If you trust in God's unconditional love, why do you need to pray?" A better ending is "why wouldn't you want to?"

We must not become so preoccupied looking for "major" miracles that we miss all the daily ones.

As I get older I've come to realize that the best way to "get even" with someone is to forgive - and then forget.

It is so beautifully ironic that St. Francis - the great lover of animals - is now a pigeon's target in countless yards.

Christ always calls us to life and constantly to greater joy, but rarely does He call us to comfort.

The funny thing about the boy who gave away his loaves and fish is that he, too, ended the day with a full stomach.

God is holding you in His heart, right at this very moment. It's a fact that can make you feel so small yet so big at the same time.

Painters of paintings, writers of books, never could tell the half.

Bewitched, bothered and bewildered am I.

If you look at me in 'Ride Along,' even though I'm playing two different characters, my demeanor and my tone were not aggressive.

Having other comedians complimenting my work is the biggest accolade that I can get.

My baby is weird man... when he get mad, he gets in the oven.

My business acumen is definitely growing.

The beauty of me is I'm always going to ask. I'll never not ask.

At the end of the day, I want to be part of the same conversation as Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Dave Chappelle, Bill Cosby and Richard Pryor.

I'm not a big politics guy.

I don't write material. Funny things happen to me in the course of a day, and I just make notes.

My upbringing was solid because of the people I had around me.

Some sarcasm is best told simply.

The most important thing for a director is being able to communicate.

I want to be funny, but it has to be a believable funny.

It's a well-known fact that tall people are evil.

I'm not the most attractive fella. I'm not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

No man wants to settle down. It happens. Eventually you're going to bump into somebody that makes you go, 'Hmm, I don't mind seeing this person every day.'

Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to put the work in!!

At the end of the day, your fans are the people who support you in and out. And their opinions matter.

There's a difference between who we love, who we settle for, and who we're meant for.

You don't want to pigeonhole yourself.

The finest mode of transport known to man.

Bob Kelly was so dumb, they shoulda written his name on the Stanley Cup in crayon.

Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.

In appearance the labor system of all the colonies was the same.

It's not an exaggeration to say that we're on the verge of a meltdown.

Art, after all, is traditionally displayed against vacancies: paintings on dun walls, sculptures in empty spaces, music in quiet halls.

Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy.

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

Avoid self-righteousness like the devil- nothing is so self-blinding.

It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.

Writing in a nuanced way, getting at all the details in a way that remains interesting for the reader, is very difficult.

There's nothing quite so irritating to an author as a family member's easy confidence that, of course, the book will come.

Besides paid white laborers, there was everywhere a class of white servants bound without wages for a term of years, and a more miserable class of Negro slaves.

If you wish for peace, understand war.

Honorable retreats are no ways inferior to brave charges, as having less fortune, more of discipline, and as much valor.

Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.

England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.