C. L. R. James Quotes

Here we raise his children for him, cook for him, bring up his crops, butcher his hogs - even fight his wars for him - and he still won't acknowledge our existence.

When you get the coffee from the store, does it come in a great big metal can?'He beamed. 'Absolutely.'That was all I needed to hear. "Tea. A cup of tea.

Without hope there is no faith and without faith it is impossible to love. If we do not embrace love we cannot embrace hope and therefore have no purpose.

Some tragic mistakes are often made by those who acquire the reins of control before their maturity is adequate to handle it.

Indeed, we should be trying to reach out to those who don’t know Jesus Christ, which is impossible in an atmosphere of hostility.

I have wrote my name in hell, ” Brian McFee had said as he was dying on the sawdust of the floor in the Bent Ridge Tavern.

People can't stand to be alone with themselves, so they bother me when I'm trying to be alone with myself.

My handling of the situation with Jake proved that I was the same girl from eight years ago. I'd just gained a stone and lost my love for Shayne Ward.

If he set out right now to make a list of the things he had taken for granted in his life, he’d go broke buying paper.

…Late at night, when the hour is none, I dream the dreams of the damned.

It is a brave man... who dares to look the devil in the face and tell him he is a devil.

Those who are brave, are the greatest cowards of all. For they fear failure.

A soul that is happy in the things of God can overcome tremendous obstacles.

Ask yourself what you will care about when everything is on the line.

As life runs on, the road grows strange With faces new, and near the end The milestones into headstones change, ’Neath every one a friend.

Teenagers - tired of being hassled by your parents?Act now!Move out, get a job, pay your own bills.....while you still know everything.

The jewels of sorrow last forever

He finally comprehended that the sole impossibility regarding human sorrow is to arrive at some unsurpassable limit to it.

I try to be perfect but I'm not. I'm perfectly imperfect in every way.

The petite bourgeoise and small property in general represent a precious zone of autonomy and freedom in state systems increasingly dominated by large public and private bureaucracies.

the decisive movement toward corporate capitalism began in 1895-1896.

Only merchants have money to waste, and what are they but parasites who create nothing, grow nothing, make nothing but feed off another's labor?

Simplistic ideas are the weapons with which the thoughtful are clubbed.

Right and wrong isn’t a matter of ethics, rather it’s the geography in which you reside and whose control you’re under. Tallinn Manual 2.0 is based largely on western international humanitarian law.

Pregnancy is a very tough experience for a female, have no doubt. But, it's not a walk in the park for a man either. Understanding on both sides is key

It's far too easy to forget, miss or not appreciate the tiny things a partner does every single day, but should you wait until it's over or they've gone to miss who they were?

I experienced the Church to be this refuge within and beyond myself.

At the end of life, each of us must answer the question, Whose story captured my soul?

In healthy churches, the pastors life, not just his words, sets the tone for the church.

We must evaluate every person, place, product, perspective, position, or pleasure we have looked to in place of the promises of God, and turn away from those things accordingly.

Any counseling that does not pursue spiritual formation through an intimate relationship with Jesus by faith as one of its chief goals is not worthy to be called BIBLICAL counseling.

So often, it's others around us who can see where God wants to grow us even before we see it ourselves.

Small groups are the place to push past Bible knowledge and on to life application so that we can see people's lives transform more and more into the image of Christ.

If our counseling is truly Christ-centered, then the topic of forgiveness will inevitably come up in the journey toward growth and change.

Many pastors would rather preach God's Word and keep their distance than invest in a personal one-on-one counseling ministry. Most pastors counsel because they have to, not because they want to.

Counseling is ultimately not about the counselee or the counselor, but about the Divine Counselor.

We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.

Human sin is stubborn, but not as stubborn as the grace of God and not half as persistent, not half so ready to suffer to win its way

No one ever made more trouble than gentle Jesus meek and mild.

There is never a time in the future in which we will work out our salvation. The challenge is in the moment, the time is always now.

Some will and some won't, some do and some don't. If you won't and you don't, then you have no one else to blame. If you will and you do, the world will beat a path to your doorstep…

You can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Why don't people get their children stuffed after they pass away. Why not, I mean you do love them right?

The eyes were certainly memorable and beautiful, moist calves' eyes heavily lashed and with the same look of troubled pain at the unpredictability of the world's terrors.

A praying mother is more precious and valuable than all the riches in the world.

At least it would have been perfect, if it wasn't for my mother.

I am terrified of restrictive religious doctrine, having learned from history that when men who adhere to any form of it are in control, common men like me are in peril. [The World Is My Home (1991)]

Besides, immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control things.

Art, like dreams, helps our eyes to see what our hearts already know.

All the motives for murder are covered by four Ls: Love, Lust, Lucre and Loathing.