C. L. R. James Quotes

How did you become blind, uh, Jeff is it?"Yeah, Jeff. Well, I looked directly at the sun, you know, the way they always tell you not to. If only I had listened.

Now, Max, I think we both know your parents aren't missionaries."I opened my eyes wide. "No? Well, for God's sake, don't tell them. They'd be crushed. Thinking they're doing the Lord's work and all.

Awww, " Minho said. "That's almost as sweet as that time she slammed the end of a spear into your shuck face.

Meaning what? We're going to pretend nothing's going on? That's stupid. The only way to deal with any of this is to get it out in the open."Have you been watching Oprah again?

Well, that's an evil smile...

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

I can still kick your pony-lovin' butt with twice this much pain."Thomas shrugged, "I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now.

So the first thing we're gonna do, " I told him, "is push you off the roof.

Shuck it, ” Minho responded. “I’m tougher than nails. I could still kick your pony-lovin’ butt with twice this pain.” Thomas shrugged. “I do love ponies. Wish I could eat one right now.

Thomas: Is it [my brain] fixed?Brenda: It worked, judging from the fact that you're not trying to kill us anymore...

You are all a lost generation, " Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.

We live in deeds not years In thoughts not breaths In feelings not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels noblest, acts the best.

We youths say “like” all the time because we mistrust reality.

You have made the moon, " The Jester said. "That is the moon.

What do they know of cricket who only cricket know?

Good god it's great to be a Bull Mongoni!

What I know definitively about life at this age … is absolutely nothing.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, let us be thankful, and so worship God acceptably with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire.

Truth cannot be constructed. To live in ideology is, as Havel so eloquently reminds us, inevitably to live in a lie. Truth can only be revealed. We cannot be creators, only receptors.

One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience.

I have no greater joy than to know that my children walk in truth.

Curiosity is the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a force that can actually manifest a reality.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

True ideas seem to suffer from repetition, while stupid ones tend to flourish.

A thousand truths can be assembled in such a way as to create a colossal lie.

As time and space are bent by gravity, so too is truth bent by power.

My soul doth magnify the Lord, And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.

In the heartfelt mercy of our God, the dawn from on high will visit us, to shine on those sitting in darkness, in the shadow of death, to guide our feet to the way of peace.

To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see.

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.

...God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since.

O Lord, you have searched me and you know me.

God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.

No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.

Is anything too hard for the Lord? (Genesis 18:14)

Because your steadfast love is better than life, my lips will praise you.

To love God with all our heart, soul, and mind, and our neighbor as ourself.

Whose little boy are you?

The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails

I've gone to prepare a place for youBut I will come back again.

We seek God so earnestly, Eliav reflected, not to find Him but to discover ourselves.

God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.

It doesn’t cause me to doubt God’s existence, but it does force me to admit there’s a lot about God I don’t understand.

Marty, my mother used to say "Never get greedy with God." I think what she meant was "Don't dare ask for more if you already have what you need."

This life is the only opportunity we will have to worship God in the midst of trials and tests. Heaven will be perfect.

Obstacles are those frightening things you see when you take you eyes off your goal.

End of a matter is better than its beginning

There is no dishonor in wisdom.