Jim Quotes

People are strange . . .

Let's swim to the moonLet's climb through the tideSurrender to the waiting worldsThat lap against our side.

Eternity shall be at once a great eye-opener and a great mouth-shutter." -Jim Elliot

Needs multiply as they are met. Woe to the man who would live a disentangled life. Be on guard, my soul, of complicating your environment so that you have neither time nor room for growth!

In the holy solipsism of the youngNow I can't walk thru a citystreet w/out eying eachsingle pedestrian. I feelthier vibe thru myskin, the hair on my neck--- it rises.

When you make your peace with authority you become authority.

I only hope that He will let me preach to those who have never heard that name Jesus. What else is worthwhile in this life? I have heard of nothing better. 'Lord, send me!'

We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a face-wash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid they told me I was being funny.

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

I'm interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that appears to have no meaning. It seems to me to be the road toward freedom.

I don't trust my mind for everyday thinking, but I am convinced that it has one very great function, which is to eventually make me aware of astounding things.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.

Are you always a smartass?'Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.

I still can't believe, " Michael said, sotto voce, "that you came to the Vampires' Masquerade Ball dressed as a vampire.

Ack!" I said.Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

She frowned at me. "You need some rest. You look like hell. And you're obviously tired enough to have gotten the giggles."Wizards don't giggle, " I said, hardly able to speak. "This is cackling.

Harry, " Bob drawled, his eye lights flickering smugly, "what you know about women, I could juggle.

It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.I turned around and ran like hell.

Hell's bells, irony blows.

You're such a cynic, " Molly said."I think cynics are playful and cute.

Black Court vampires. I just shortened it some."Ebenezar tsked. "Blampires. That's the problem with you young people. Shortening all the words.

Home is where, when you go there and tell people to get out, they have to leave.

I have nightmares about hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.

It's a sad day for American Capitalism when a man can't fly a midget on a kite over central park.

There are always consequences to wrong choices.

The opportunity to do what is right is available at all times.

Keep it simple and keep it real. The more basic we see our connection to God and Spirit, the easier it is to feel like you're a part of it.

Wisdom is not having God's perspective of the whole matter before us, but having God's perspective about what next response will honor Him while keeping us still usable to Him.

When you feel down and out you must reach up and out--to Spirit! Our strength will only resonate deep within your souls if you open your heart and minds with us.

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

No matter how hard it is, or how hard it gets, don't ever, ever, ever lose hope!

I had turned away from the picture and was going back to the world where events move, men change, light flickers, life flows in a clear stream, no matter whether over mud or over stones.

Everyone has to have hope in their life, or they will eventually become your enemy.

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention?

Wherever we go we do harm, forgivingourselves as wheels do cement for wearingeach other out. We set this houseon fire, forgetting that we live within.(from "To a Meadowlark, " for M.L. Smoker)

Perfection is not a destination it's a never-ending process...Enjoy!

The champion wins first, then walks into the arena. Everybody else walks into the arena and then tries to figure out what to do.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self-knowledge.

Success is neither magical nor mysterious. Success is the natural consequence of consistently applying basic fundamentals.

When you know what you want, and you want it bad enough, you'll find a way to get it.

Isana felt her throat tighten. "We failed." Serai lifted her chin and patted Isana's arm firmly."We have not yet succeeded. There is a difference.

A lot of people don’t do well simply because they major in minor things.

The price of success is the risk of self-esteem.

Formal education will make you a living self-education will make you a fortune.

well I believe in commitment it's just I, you know, I don't stick to it.

It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.

Bob, would you be willing to take on Evil Bob?"Bob's eyes darted nervously. "I'd . . . prefer not to. I'd really, really prefer not to. You have no idea. That me was crazy. And buff. He worked out.