C. L. R. James Quotes
The Lord has to break us down at the strongest part of our self-life before He can have His own way of blessing us.
Sometimes, insatiable curiosity and compassion are all that life requires of us.
Grace isn't meant to be fair, grace is meant to be good
Learning the way of grace is about truth. It’s reconciling the truth, of both our own infinite value and of others’ infinite value—despite our depths ofbrokenness.
All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here.
We have created a world we don’t like, don’t understand and don’t trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.
A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.
Fear in the absence of certainty can inspire men to do unimaginable things.
A few generations living and dying without a sky, and enclosed spaces lost the atavistic terror of premature burial.
Are you desperate or determined? With desperation comes frustration. With determination comes purpose, achievement, and peace….
Inevitably, if we are to grow and change as adults, we must gradually learn to confront the challenges, paradoxes, problems and painful reality of an insecure world.
We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. Christ, we're in love. As deeply, as profoundly, as it's possible to be in love.
Love forces, at last, this humility: you cannot love if you cannot be loved, you cannot see if you cannot be seen.
When a heart has set a course, let it navigate the laughter in failure and generosity in overcoming crisis. Love weaves lives and distills.
They called you the Glue""The Glue?""Yeah. Probably because you're kind of the glue that holds us all together
Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities".
Why’d you call, boy? What did you want from me?""The company of a friend, I think.""Always a cheap treat.
2. Overcommitment and time pressure are the greatest destroyers of marriages. It takes time to develop any friendship...whether with a loved one or with God Himself.
If you have the power to change the world for the better, you should do it. That's why people who do nothing are idiots, but idiots who do nothing are life-savers.
People are not measured by their accomplishments, but by how many times they screw up trying to achieve them.
I know that people can be better than they are. We are capable of bearing a great burden, once we discover that the burden is reality and arrive where reality is.
What if the mosquitos are converting the pesticide to a weak form of pyrethrums, a poison to people?
Millions of people acknowledge today that they do not know the meaning of life.
The means of defence agst. foreign danger, have been always the instruments of tyranny at home.
The enemies of your enemies are not always your friends, but they can still be useful.
Praise be to the LORD my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
Tracer lighting up the sky.It's another families' turn to die.A child afraid to even cry out says, He has been here.And I see no bravery, No bravery in your eyes anymore.Only sadness.
...all the horrors of war are soon forgotten in the pomp and circumstance of show and parade.
Wars are fought by teenagers, you realize that. They really ought to be fought by the politicians and old people who start these wars." (Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio-1986)
I do detest the human race as a whole, but some groups are more deserving than others,
If you believe Might is Right, it follows that whoever cannot hold their ground does not deserve to keep it.
Of all the enemies to public liberty war is, perhaps, the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ of every other.
...the experience of battle forever divides those who talk of nothing else but its prospect from those who talk of everything else but its memory.
After Congress passed SJ Res 34, we are no longer merely battling a cyber-kinetic war on all fronts, we are now in a state of perpetual cyber-kinetic-meta war, and there will be no end.
War without end. Well, what was history without that? And how would having the stars change anything?
Because we can't just blow up enough things that this becomes a good situation.
I was born to catch dragons in their dens / And pick flowers / To tell tales and laugh away the morning / To drift and dream like a lazy stream / And walk barefoot across sunshine days.
What dreams would he have, not seeing. Life a dream for him. Where is the justice being born that way?
Even the brightest of dreams-come-true had shadowy recesses.
I will to my dying day oppose, with all the powers and faculties God has given me, all such instruments of slavery on the one hand and villainy on the other, as this Writ of Assistance is.