Jo Jones Quotes

You can have knowledge, and you can be meticulous in your preparation; but without the unction of the Holy Spirit you will have no power, and your preaching will not be effective.

No nation has ever prospered or been blessed like the colored people in the South.

I've always been in a mindset where I can lose a K but still smile cuz I know it's coming back another day.

I lay my head on the wheel and the horn begins honking, the whole neighborhood knows that I'm home drunk again.

That's what the drummer is supposed to do. Keep the time. If you can do something else besides that, fine. But the time is essential and non-negotiable.

We should go into His presence as a child goes to his father. We do it with reverence and godly fear, of course, but we should go with a childlike confidence and simplicity.

Only this is true, that beauty is very beautiful, and softens, and inspires, and rouses, and lifts up, and never fails.

People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.

Once you begin to explain or excuse all events on racial grounds, you begin to indulge in the perilous mythology of race.

Everything is a possibility. I believe we're put on this earth to think big and dream big.

A movement that seeks to advance only its own members is going to accomplish little

The eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, it transforms everything.

I lowered the gun but didn’t holster it. Not just yet. She could turn out to be psychotic. Or a door-to-door salesperson.

I meant to behave. There were just too many other options.--T-SHIRT

Chocolate and coffee ? Together ? Whoever came up with that combination should have won a Nobel Peace Prize. Or at least a subscription to Reader's Digest.

The only music I don't like is bad music.

Be your own motivation.

You're sacking them, you're bagging them. And that's what you're doing with a quarterback.

I'm too vain, one of my biggest sins, but it saved me; I can see what excess does.

The devil's one object is so to depress God's people that he can go to the man of the world and say: There are God's people. Do you want to be like that?

Don't judge me because I'm quiet. No one plans a murder out loud.

You are either a Christian or you are not a Christian; you cannot be partly a Christian. You are either "dead" or "alive"; you are either "born" or "not born".

If all else fails, you could wait for the first corner and tie his dreadlocks to the goalpost.

I like tall girls because I like someone to look up to.

I feel vulnerable on mountains. It's an uncontrolled, raw environment. It's very - it's truly humbling.

Survival is my primary instinct...it's out of my control. It's stronger than me. It's an outside force, a voice that says 'do this for your life or it will devour you.'

People look at you differently if you wear a bow tie, as opposed to a necktie.

The rules are simple. Take your work, but never yourself, seriously. Pour in the love and whatever skill you have, and it will come out.

Why? Why are they always wanting to kill Jews?

I'm willing to forgo the cheap satisfaction of the radical pose for the deep satisfaction of radical ends.

The usual pattern of demagogues is to promise the moon, fail to deliver, and then blame vulnerable others for those failures.

I use SPF every day, then apply foundation, mascara, eyeliner and blusher. I always take my make-up off at night and moisturize.

Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. 'Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it's done. Be the labour great or small, do it well or not at all.'

That's why I love spiders. 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.

If you do not do your God-assigned task, throughout eternity there will be a job that has never been done.

I always told my children when they whined... Only the boring are bored.

Lose the chrome-plated sissy pistol and get yourself a Glock.

I'm not a humanitarian, I'ma hell-raiser.

Many shots are spoiled at the last instant by efforts to add a few more yards.

It is a sin to do less than your best.

I hated grunge. No one’s more feminist than me, but you don’t have to look as if you don’t give a - you know. You can be smart, bright, and attractive aesthetically to others - and to yourself.

Barack Obama volunteered to be the Captain of the Titanic AFTER it hit the iceberg

The only companies that innovate are those who believe that innovation is vital for their future.

Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.

When I want your opinion, I'll remove the duct tape.--T-SHIRT

I mean by a picture a beautiful romantic dream of something that never was, never will be - in a light better than any light that ever shone - in a land no one can define, or remember, only desire

The more materialistic science becomes, the more angels shall I paint. Their wings are my protest in favor of the immortality of the soul.

God gave me photography so that I could pray with my eyes.

You cannot get an A if you're afraid of getting an F.

What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area.