I.B. George Quotes
Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.
Prayer among sane people has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end.
The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.
I have taught you my dear flock for above thirty years how to live and I will show you in a very short time how to die.
If you are as happy my dear sir on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home you are the happiest man in this country.
The freedom of the press is one of the great bulwarks of liberty and can never be restrained but by despotic governments.
Too bad all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair.
Progress far from consisting in change depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are content to repeat it.
We are a rather big-headed little species in a vast cosmos which can do without us very well.
Each religion by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabling it to make its peace with its destiny.
My atheism like that of Spinoza is true piety towards the universe and denies only gods fashioned by men in their own image to be servants of their human interests.
Each of us has some unique capability waiting for realization. Every person is valuable in his own existence for himself alone ... each of us can bring to fruition these innate God-given abilities.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small steps.
Entrepreneurs in accepting risk achieve security for all. In embracing change they ensure social and economic stability.
If all the arts aspire to the condition of music all the sciences aspire to the condition of mathematics.
Science is nothing but developed perception interpreted intent common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Life I fancy would very often be insupportable but for the luxury of self-compassion.
Happiness is like time and space-we make and measure it ourselves it is as fancy as big as little as you please just a thing of contrasts and comparisons.
The man who gives me employment which I must have or suffer that man is my master let me call him what I will.
What's the use of worrying? It never was worth while so Pack up your troubles in your old kit-bag And smile smile smile.
Only one-fourth of the sorrow in each man's life is caused by outside uncontrollable elements the rest is self-imposed by failing to analyze and act with calmness.
If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith you must find things to believe in yourself for life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.
Football combines the two worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings.
Baseball it is said is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes or games are created equal.
Nature gave men two ends-one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most.
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
It is not the cares of today but the cares of tomorrow that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet.
It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear.
A man's memory may almost become the art of continually varying and misrepresenting his past according to his interest in the present.
"Old times" never come back and I suppose it's just as well. What comes back is a new morning every day in the year and that's better.