Jerry Quotes

She might be pointing to a doorway, or a person, or the sky. But such things were so common to my eyes, so undistinguished, that they would register as "nothing" I walked in a gray world of nothing.

I totally carpe-d the snot out of this diem!

To me, God is like this happy bus driver.

You can't understand where someone's going unless you understand where they've been.

Amanda took the torn page from Maniac. To her, it was the broken wing of a bird, a pet out in the rain.

Freedom is saying I want to do this Not that

The thinner the excuse, the fatter the reason for it.

This was the start of a period that blurs as I try to recall it. Incidents seem to cascade and merge. Events become feelings, fellings become events. Head and heart are contrary historians.

Latin is already a dead language, man... don't make it any deader.

Even our tears of repentance need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb.

Home was where others had to gather grace. Home was what I wanted to flee.

No life is messier than one in ministry

Biblical community is first of all the sharing of a common life in Christ.

My work ethic came from my parents and my fear of failure. I came from a small, predominantly black school and I didn't want to let them down.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

Once you start doing only what you've already proven you can do, you're on the road to death.

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

I was never really sure what I wanted to do - I'm in awe of these people who knew at age 10 or 12 they wanted to be a brain surgeon, and they did it, and they still are.

I'm just thankful to have a tour and work something I can focus on.

I only make movies I want to go see.

There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.

A sad fact of life lately at the Museum of Modern Art is that when it comes to group shows of contemporary painting from the collection, the bar has been set pretty low.

I highly suggest marriage to all my friends who are dating.

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

I get very nervous when I have to take my wedding ring off.

There is no horror, no amount of evil in the world, that a true believer can't rationalize as consistent with a loving God. It's the ultimate way of fooling yourself.

It takes a profound hypocrisy to try to reconcile for others things that you can't reconcile for yourself.

Because of the hegemony of fundamentalist religion in the United States, this country has been among the most resistant to the fact of human evolution.

The battle for evolution seems never-ending. And the battle is part of a wider war, a war between rationality and superstition.

If you can't think of an observation that could disprove a theory, that theory simply isn't scientific.

Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone's satisfaction - one example of a "truth" found in religion's quest for truth.

You can find religions without creationism, but you never find creationism without religion.

A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the inscrutable caprices of a creator.

Some believers are fundamentalists about everything, but every believer is a fundamentalist about something.

The most comforting feeling ever is knowing that someone truly likes your entire existence. I feel that way right now. Thank you.

I love inventing worlds and characters and settings and scenarios.

We sometimes idealize the early church and want our churches to go back to the simple, old ways. We need to carefully read the history. Harmony takes work.

Wherever you have people, you have factions and disagreements and personality conflicts.

The uninitiated have real questions and valid concerns over how the things of God appear to them.

The opposite of retaliation is to entrust ourselves to God, who judges justly.

Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

No circumstance is so big that He cannot control it.

Not only has the debt (of our sins) been fully paid, there is no possibility of ever going into debt again.

All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.

The Holy Spirit makes us aware of our lack of holiness to stimulate us to deeper yearning and striving for holiness. But Satan will attempt to use the Holy Spirit’s work to discourage us.

If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.

There is no point in praying for victory over temptation if we are not willing to make a commitment to say no to it.

May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn in others

Only those who walk in holiness experience true joy.

God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.