DJ Paul Quotes

I am a follower of Jesus and a student of the Buddha. Why is that so hard for my fellow Christians to grasp?

Seeing Jesus prolongs your life. Seeing Jesus keeps you healthy. Seeing Jesus makes you strong.

The Holy Spirit never draws attention to Himself. He always points to and reveals Jesus.

Wearing your feelings on your sleeve will end up being a chip on your shoulder.

Life should be lived more from the heart than the head.

Jesus conformed to our image so we could be transformed into His likeness.

The burden of sin leads you to the need of a savior

The devout life does not solely entail living as a monk or ascetic, though that is fine. The devout life requires bringing God into all things.

When in doubt, look to Jesus.

The sin of man was placed on a sinless Savior. 2 Cor. 5:21

Grace makes us inwardly RIGHT so we walk outwardly UPRIGHT

But without wisdom, imagination is like a cruel taskmaster.

John Quincy Adams' depression was treated by his aunt with some reliable remedies, first sleep and then compassion. She said, " He was half cared for by having someone to care for him.

Compassion‬ is medicine to a wounded heart. When we show compassion to those who are suffering we preach Jesus in another way.

Disgust at idols strengthened his love for idolaters, and the man who once held Gentile neighbors at a distance now listened to their problems, fears, and temptations.

New converts displayed a most un-Roman concern for the sick man.

A simple act of kindness and compassion towards a single animal may not mean anything to all creatures, but will mean everything to one.

I don't want to go to Peru."How do you know? You've never been there."I've never been to hell either and I'm pretty sure I don't want to go there.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

It's like rock n' roll for your eyes.

If I read enough about one country I sometimes found that the intensity of the reading removed by desire to travel there.

In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back

So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.

Being rich isn't much fun when mostly everyone else is begging around you.

I decided I would teach Mrs. P. a lesson by cooking my own meal.

Language has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone.

We are strangers to our own lives, setting out in the dark to look for the adobe of Love which we were meant to know, guided by the Music that wants us to see.

Every time, Love pushed down the door where her loneliness lived. The Music came and sealed the chamber of her heart. She was filled with clear sweetness that was there from the start.

Through science, she could reach anyone at anytime around the world, but no one seemed to know what to say.

What a difference having a friend makes.

Darkness is not forever, eventually there will be stars.

When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours.

Succeeding in life and business is like falling in love with your wife (for those of you that are married). You can’t leave your wife at the mercy of another man and feel safe.

For business and life, if you are not experiencing growth, you’re possibly dying.

In my many years of working with people, I have never seen things change by chance, you have to work it out yourself.... life really sucks but YOU have what it takes to change it.

People often ask if it was calling. My answer always is yes.

Putting lifestyle first is how you find a job-- not a calling.

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

He must become an apprentice to ordinary life.

I carry too much of the week into the Sabbath, and too little of the Sabbath into the week. John Quincy Adams

[H]e found poetry more comforting than Scripture—and his ability to forge from his life a cogent, powerful tale of living with death.

To my mind, one does not put oneself in place of the past, one only adds a new link.

The past is a ghost that haunts us. Ghosts must banished. Lingering on the past is weakness, Lord Vader.

The past is the past. It’s the present we should worry about.

Just because you're done with the past doesn't mean the past is done with you.

Being confident of this very thing, that He who has begun a good work in you will complete it until the day of Jesus Christ.

The pain of failure had led me to understand that technical excellence was a moral requirement.

Failing is never too early, success is never too late.

It was a failure of pedagogical nerve, she reminded herself, to give up on a student.