I.B. George Quotes
Matthew Arnold was a fastidious social critic and hence an accomplished complainer. When he died, an acquaintance said: "Poor Matt, he's going to Heaven, no doubt – but he won't like God.
When God gives you a mission, He also gives you everything you need to fulfill that mission.
We are only human, and the gods have fashioned us for love. That is our great glory, and our great tragedy.
Three good men dead, to save a hedge knight's foot.
God’s ways and His will come in His own perfect time.
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.
The awkwardness of getting reward in a well-off society is that the creation of appetite often requires undoing the work of satisfying appetite.
Mercy reflects the presence of the Lord in your heart and your life.
From the neglect of a real duty, she became the slave of a false one.
George, I know you’re tired. But President Lincoln, he didn’t free us to be lazy and no good. He freed us to work hard and improve ourselves.”-George’s Grandmother.
She who is even once unjust can not complain if the like is expected of her again.
These are the winter's people, he reminded himself. Tears froze upon your cheeks where they come from.
Teach me, O Lord, to glory in my cross. Teach me the value of my thorns. Show me how I have climbed to You through my path of pain. Show me that it is through my tears that I have seen rainbows.
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, men said, but the enemy of my friend is my enemy.
Love is the emotion that a woman feels always for a poodle dog and sometimes for a man
Heart cannot think what outrage and what cries, with black smoke and flashing fire, the beast threw forth, turning the whole world to darkness.
All right, " she said. "Give me the books that are kind to me, and to hell with the men who don't give a damn about me.
Hannah's magic cure for every ill, " he teased. "Blueberry cake and a kitten.
He sent the trained dog that is his talent off in search of a fat glorious pheasant, and it brought back the lower half of a Barbie doll.
I have never forgotten, and I can't imagine you have, and I've thought of it over the years. It was so good, when it was good, I kept thinking. How could it go wrong?
Environment' is a term that creates no pictures in the mind, which is why I have begun to use 'natural world' or 'living planet' instead.
He has a sellsword's conscience, she realized then. That is to say none at all.
For someone so intuitive, ” he said, shaking his head, “sometimes you only see what you expect to see.
When your womb quickens again, and you bear a living child, then he will return, and not before.
Behavior was better when cinemas were opulent.
Television news is akin to audible wallpaper.
Is that gallantry I smell, or just stupidity? The two scents are much alike, as I recall.
Laws ... would be useless on the moon.
The moon was a crescent, thin and sharp as the blade of a knife.
As a Christian, your godly life and your godly mothering sends its shimmering wake throughout all eternity.
My lord father used to say a man should never draw his sword unless he means to use it.
This gift of 'loving' the other person is a reflection of the spiritual 'love' given by the Father and shown through His Son Jesus Christ.
Before you and your spouse can work as a team raising your children, you must first work as a team in your marriage.