I.B. George Quotes

A condition which of declension would indicate a devil, may of growth indicate a saint.

It matters little where a man may be at this moment; the point is whether he is growing.

You would not think any duty small, If you yourself were great.

You thought you were going to be made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it himself. (Quoted by C.S.Lewis in Mere Christianity)

All that is made seems planless to the darkened mind, because there are more plans than it looked for...There seems no plan because it is all plan: there seems no centre because it is all centre.

But there is no veil like light--no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth.

If we will but let our God and Father work His will with us, there can be no limit to His enlargement of our existence

I am an emptiness for Thee to fill; my soul a cavern for Thy sea

Her face was fair and pretty, with eyes like two bits of night sky, each with a star dissolved in the blue.

I repent me of the ignorance wherein I ever said that God made man out of nothing: there is no nothing out of which to make anything; God is all in all, and he made us out of himself.

Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.

The possession of wealth is, as it were, prepayment, and involves an obligation of honor to the doing of correspondent work.

But, for as cold and wretched as it looks, the sun has not forsaken it. He has only drawn away from it a little, for good reasons, one of which is that we may learn that we cannot do without him.

A fairytale is not an allegory. There may be allegory in it, but it is not an allegory.

What a man is lies as certainly upon his countenance as in his heart, though none of his acquaintances may be able to read it. The very intercourse with him may have rendered it more difficult.

I watched her departure, as one watches a sunset. She went like a radiance through the dark wood, which was henceforth bright to me, from simply knowing that such a creature was in it.

All power is lodged in, and consequently derived from, the people. We should wear it as a breastplate, and buckle it on as our armour.

I said to myself that I shall try to make my life like an open fireplace, so that people may be warmed and cheered by it and so go out themselves to warm and cheer.

It's marvelous the change that comes about when a man gets together all his forces and centers them upon the doing of one thing at a time.

It is the spirit of a person that hangs above him like a star in the sky.

We never know what's in us till we stand by ourselves.

Observation is the most enduring of the pleasures of life.

The man who has no mind of his own lends it to the priests.

My religion of life is always to be cheerful.

Poetry is talking on tiptoe.

When I was quite a boy I had a spasm of religion which lasted six weeks... But I never since have swallowed the Christian fable.

I don't like the antagonism that most religions have for science, and freedom and, frankly, individuality. I do like the Dalai Lama.

The most oblivious people are often the happiest.

As a child, I tried to play by the rules. I got very good grades in school; I was an Eagle Scout; and I believed in all of it.

[My mother] pretty much used to go along with my dad in that she wanted me to get an education so that if this incredible dream I had didn't work out, I would have something to fall back on.

I always knew I was attractive to girls just from the point of view that they liked me.

I just mean people who seem unavailable in the sense that they're not prepared to totally cling to anyone. I'm very attracted to people who are basically free spirits.

The thing that's weird is that we thought it was funny. We expected people to get the joke - that we [with Andrew Ridgeley] were two guys really making asses of ourselves.

I've been approached many times by many different people, and most people want to do something that I write and produce, and I'm just not into that.

I'm basically a control freak. It's not because I want to be. I'm not at all into the power play that's involved in it.

I want to make a pop album - something more upbeat than my stuff was in the '90s.

All the money, all the prestige in the world will never make up for the loss of your freedom.

It does not matter whether we burn fossil fuels with malice or with love. As far as the atmosphere is concerned, it is not concerned. It is a collection of gases.

Soil is an almost magical substance, a living system that transforms the materials it encounters.

Why is it so easy to save the banks - but so hard to save the biosphere?

I should write a book. I've always wanted to write a book. I should write a book about kids who see dead people.

If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible.

She was very young...she still expected something from life, she did not understand that to push an inconvenient person over a cliff solves nothing.

You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity.

Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction.

Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting.

Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible.

You cannot tackle Britain's debts without tackling the unreformed welfare system.

Of all the public services, education is the one I'm most interested in. You get a more dynamic economy, you deal with most social problems, and it's morally right.