J. L. B. Smith Quotes
This planet is 15 million years overdue for an asteroid strike like the one that killed the dinosaurs.
You must come to see how wonderful you are in God and how helpless you are in yourself.
Ice cream was my undoing, and six chocolate milk shakes in a row were nothing to me at one time.
When they come downstairs from their Ivory Towers, idealists are very apt to walk straight into the gutter.
To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.
God is not in a hurry to fix us. Our behavior is not his first priority. We are his first priority. Loving us, knowing us, affirming us, protecting us. That is his top goal and his main concern.
Nowhere in the Bible, however, do we find God distinguishing between levels of sin. God doesn't share our rating system. To him, all sin is equally evil, and all sinners are equally lovable.
Women are more balanced than men. Where the most brilliant minds have so far have mostly belonged to men, no women has ever been as stupid as a man can be.
You always have to remember to take care of yourself first and foremost, because when you stop taking care of yourself you get out of balance and you really forget how to take care of others.
God's Word is the only reliable guideline for living. Following your heart, without the leading of His Word and His Spirit, will lead you to His judgement.
Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.
Basketball is a beautiful game when the five players on the court play with one heartbeat.
I'd rather live my life knowing that I'm not perfect than spend my whole life pretending to be.
Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
I want you to promise the Lord that, from tonight, you will not think back, look back, or act back!
A lot of people now think Im a shoe. They dont even know I was a tennis player. The shoe has really taken on a life of its own, way beyond me.
Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation.
As you commit your life to follow the Lord, He begins to plant His desires in your heart, then guides you according to His plan
Though prayer doesn't change God's mind or God's purposes, prayer does change something- It changes us.
Playing with fire is bad for those who burn themselves. For the rest of us, it is a very great pleasure.
Worry about being respected, never worry about being liked because that's the trap.
10 ways to love: listen, speak, give, pray, answer, share, enjoy, trust, forgive, promise.
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
There are five Gospels: Matthew, Mark, Luke, John and the Christian. Most people will never read the first four.
The man who in this world can keep the whiteness of his soul is not likely to lose it in any other.
Without faith, you have nothing. You cannot be saved without it. You cannot be healed without it.
I'd rather take a contested shot than an open shot any day ... It's kind of boring when you take open shots
I think it rather pathetic that so many people are looking forward to heaven to prove that their doctrinal position was correct.
I would rather have the wrong facts and a right attitude, than right facts and a wrong attitude.
What we do on Sunday absolutely doesn't matter unless it meets us on Monday. Changes us on Monday. Transforms us on Monday.
To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.
One of the grand fundamental principles of Mormonism is to receive truth, let it come from whence it may.
There are many selfish people who are extremely original, then they take those pure ideas and use them to raise themselves up, that is an insincere move.
