Jim Quotes

The man and husband of the household is responsible for the way your family’s income is managed.

I hate what you represent."... "Power without conviction." Isana replied, her tone lifeless, matter of fact. "Ambition without conscience. Decent folk suffer at the hands of those like you.

The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.

The world was a shitpot with a barbed-wire handle and the further he could kick it the better he liked it.

The Word of God is your best defence against the troubles of this world.

The Christian life means putting off the character of the world and putting on the character of Christ.

Like “love, ” “hope” is one of those ridiculously disproportional words that by all rights should be a lot longer.

There's no way to know what's going to happen, Folly. But we'll blood well be on our feet when it does.

Give me passion -- and compassion -- any day.

This is the real world, and only a believer walking in fellowship with His Creator and Redeemer can understand it. Everyone else is the world is experiencing a 'break with reality'.

True joy comes from knowing Christ personally and from depending on His strength rather than your own.

Joy comes from knowing that God is at work in your life in spite of your circumstances.

Difficulty provides a platform for exposing Jesus to the world through your joy in the Lord.

Spiritual joy is what you experience when you choose to give thanks to God no matter what happens—even when things go wrong.

Inner joy enables you to choose to look beyond your pain and make your praise a sacrifice to God.

God does not bless religious efforts—He blesses heart-felt obedience.

God takes great joy in the passionate romantic love between a husband and wife.

The only thing weaker than a toddler's handshake is their immune system.

Even the most powerful enemies who threaten or oppress God’s children will one day fall.

Children have their own kind of power. When you're teaching them, protecting them, you are more than you thought you could be. More understanding, more patient, more capable, more wise.

Our wives, our families, and our churches need godly men who have discernment--discernment to deal with life and life-issues on a spiritual level.

It gets kind of zen after awhile, life is a journey, time is a river, the door is ajar.

If you make some comment even obliquely alluding to menstruation or menopause and its effect on my judgment, " Murphy interrupted, "I will break your arm in eleven places.

Over the lives borne from under the shadow of death there seems to fall the shadow of madness.

Trails are used by God to teach you humility and dependence on His grace rather than your own strength.

You must nurture a close walk with God through prayer, because humility’s strength is grounded in God.

Trials are used by God to teach you dependence on His grace rather than on your strength.

God’s strength will come to you when you faithfully read His Word.

It takes courage to speak up for your beliefs.

No matter how old you are or how long--or short!--you've been married, the day you accelerate your growth in the Lord is the day your marriage is positively impacted, improved, and strengthened!

Since God is with you and you are with God, you have nothing to fear!

I'd forgotten about it, and now I forgot it again. There are things that have to be forgotten if you want to go on living.

Our physical body knows it cannot function without physical water. So, too, our spiritual life should realize that it can't function without the "living water" of Gods Word.

Until is a very important word. It means that you will never give up.

You don't have to become what you already are, which is a relief.

At this point I think we need to embrace the weird. High-five it. Give it our phone number.

All this happened in much less time than it takes to tell, since I am trying to interpret for you into slow speech the instantaneous effect of visual impressions.

You do everything by the book, like everybody else, you get the same results s everybody else.

Trying to teach creativity is the major hoax of our time along with the Iraq war and plastic surgery" ~ Snarky comment of Clive from "The River Swimmer" (pg 47)

Always do more than you get paid for to make an investment in your future.

As a Christian your future is secure.

Everything God does—past, present, or future, whether in grace or in judgment—is to reveal His glory.

Remember to forget what lies behind, reach and press forward.

Life without God is a long and fruitless search for enjoyment, meaning, and fulfillment.

All your life should be seen and measured in the light of eternity.

The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.

There is a weird power in a spoken word.

No matter how often we fail in any endeavor, we never get used to the feeling of depression that assails us after each successive failure.

When we seek God for answers, we must persevere in prayer, letting it build up day after day until the force of it becomes a mighty tide pushing over all obstacles.

Prayer is your attempt to bring your will and desires in line with God’s will.