C. L. R. James Quotes

Jesus won the war, and the rest of history is simply mopping up.

A woman’s mission centered on home and family — vital spheres of ministry to be sure, but only a slice of the vast mission God originally cast by calling women to rule and subdue the earth.

I can no longer be sure whether the psyche is in me or whether I'm in the psyche...

This is [her] soul group.’What do you mean?’It’s a group of souls with whom she resonates closely.

Singing is the sound of the soul.

...music, if it really resonates, will beat somewhere right near your heartbeat. That music will make sense to you...because it's in rhythm with your soul.

The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination.

What door is opened into soul through our wounds.

Asking questions will get you the performance you are after far more than dictating demands.

A leader must be a good listener. He must be willing to take counsel. He must show a genuine concern and love for those under his stewardship.

Unlike temporal leadership, in which violence and death often proliferate, Christ’s rule signifies reunion between predator and prey, malefactors and innocents.

It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, and I know of no substitute for the force and beauty of it's process.

Forests were the first temples of God and in forests men grasped their first idea of architecture.

..if I dont do something on the grand scale, it is that my genius is altogether imitative, and that I have nor recently encountered any very striking models of grandeur.

This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.

Art is the medium through which new thoughts, perspectives, and attitudes are brought into the world.

Art helps you connect to the world, not escape from it. That is the difference between art and entertainment.

Art lives upon discussion, upon experiment, upon curiosity, upon variety of attempt, upon the exchange of views and the comparison of standpoints.

Practice form, recognize forms, hone your natural gift, and let everything you experience teach you to never be a comparison. This is how art lasts, by pulling form first from the past.

Once art served to educate and edify, now it distracts and amuses.

It would be difficult to define the limits of his reading.

Nothing irritates me so as the flatness of people’s imagination.

There were two immediate results of my forced loneliness: I began to find company in books, and greater pleasure in music.

Not my will, but thine, be done.

Keep watch and pray, so that you will not give in to temptation. For the spirit is willing, but the body is weak.

That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

For where thy treasure is, there also will thy heart be.

Feed my lambs, shepherd my sheep.

I hope that I am a good man … it would be enough.

The purpose of having the orphans study all these diverse fields was not for them to just become geniuses, but to become polymaths – meaning they would be geniuses in a wide variety of fields.

The powers of a man's mind are directly proportioned to the quantity of coffee he drinks.

Nothing in this physical world moves from disorder to order without intelligence and energy being applied to it.

Intelligence is overrated. Two dogs who sniff each others’ butts learn more about each other in a moment than many humans understand about those they’ve known for a lifetime.

I have never met a mentally strong person who wasn’t a voracious reader.

Why should we look to the past in order to prepare for the future? Because there is nowhere else to look.

Have you noticed how just trying to impose any sort of chronology on events makes it seem as though a lot of time has been occupied?

You look at the history of any sentient species and what do you find but tableaux of violence and slaughter. It’s finger-painted on the ceilings of caves and engraved into the walls of temples.

you come to understand that history might be, as Thomas Carlyle put it, “a distillation of rumor, ” or, as Napoleon said, “a set of lies generally agreed upon

History has a way of chasing gravity just like water, feeding into other parts of itself to become something else, something larger and grander, until the one pure thing it was no longer exists.

He found his irritation that the American memory could be short.

At the root of everything lay the passionatedesire of thinking people to find a simple, unifying norm for society like the law of gravity that Newton had found for nature.

As Americans, we must protect our humanity while fighting terrorism. It we lose that…they have surely won.

And have brought humanity to the edge of oblivion: because they think they are white.

When did life start being something you had to work at and not something that just is?

I sell my time to get enough money to buy it back.

If you agree to work for us, half the time you won't know the purpose of your duties . . . and when we do explain, we might not be telling the truth. But that's the real world, folks . . .

No one lived forever. But you fought for every minute you could get. Bought a little more with a lot of hard work.

The skyScorched by the sun, WeepsFecund tears.

The places of quiet are going away, the churches, the woods, the libraries. And it is only in silence we can hear the voice inside of us which gives us true peace.

The usual state of nature is recovering from the last disaster.