C. L. R. James Quotes

A truth told once is no match for a lie oft repeated.

The lies we tell about ourselves may be more revealing than the truths we incautiously reveal.

Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like, like, grits, but with high self-esteem.

When the average American says, “I’m starving, ” it is a prelude to a midnight raid on a well-stocked refrigerator or a sudden trip to the nearest fast food restaurant.

Oh, man, " he mumbled with a full mouth. "At least the food is good.

Some people just don't have what it takes to appreciate a cookie.

He himself was almost never bored, and there was no man with whom it would have been a greater mistake to suppose that silence meant displeasure.

There was the cruel kind of Eustace silence.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.

When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom.

I'm my beloved's and my beloved is mine.

And lo I am with you always, even to the very end of the age.

And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.

And when the Lamb opened the seventh seal, silence coverd the sky

What is required of thee, O man, but to do justly, love mercy and walk humbly with thy God. Micah 6:8

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God — not by works, so that no one can boast.

I rejoice at Your word as one who finds great treasure! [Psalm 119:162]

One thing I ask of the LORD, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to seek him in his temple.

I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. John 15:1

Being cheerful keeps you healthy. It is slow death to be gloomy all the time.

It was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it.Psalms, 55:12

Let him become a fool, that he may become wise.

Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much

Of making many books there is no end, and much study wearies the body.

I hold you within my heart.

For with god nothing shall be impossible.

For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Go, set a watchman, let him declare what he seeth." -

A continual diet of the Word satisfies, and it builds an appetite for more.

All the stories and poems and letters and oracles and wisdom verses of God's Word, like individual instruments in a great orchestra, serve THE WHOLE story.

God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts.

No weapon formed against you shall prosper, and every tongue which rises against you in judgment, you shall condemn.

We are sheep surrounded by green pastures, but we will not eat. We seem to have no appetite for the Word of God.

The universe looks more and more like a great thought rather than a great machine.

Or was that fatalism another good move in design space? Did the universe evolve eyes and wings and sense organs and bitter amusement at the prospect of death all the same way?

One small boy was all it took to upset the universe

In a justly ordereduniverse, where loss of equipoise would mean total destruction, individual responsibility must be absolute.

He wished he could be anywhere else and anyone else but Here and Him.

The question of identity is a question involving the most profound panic—a terror as primary as the nightmare of the mortal fall.

When two people are in love, they are parrallel lines. That intersect. Together but seperate. Infinity.

Probably every lover imagines that his own love is pure, and that others love like beasts.

I wanted to reach out and stroke her, to be gentle and tender towards her. Take care of her.

A famous author is a promoter who never quit.

It's God's world. He washes you clean. He makes you whole. He puts rain in your garden and sunshine in your heart. "Clarence

Saul was hunched over his drink like it was a small fire.

Minds are like parachutes. They only function when they are open.

You should not be too proud and accept help when it is offered, Lenora. Being overconfident will lead to your defeat if not careful

No excuses will lead to no regrets which will give you no limits to your potential.

We don't rise to the level of our abilities, we fall to the level of our excuses

It's no use crying over spilt milkWhat’s done, is done.

The first love disappears, but never goes. That ache becomes reconciliation.