Son Quotes - Page 85

You are only a prisoner when you surrender.

This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself.

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

The death of contentment is comparison.

If you've met one person with autism, you've met one person with autism.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

Do a loony-goony dance 'Cross the kitchen floor, Put something silly in the world That ain't been there before.

Everything happens for a reason.

Every part of our personality that we do not love will become hostile to us.

I'm a real paradox. Because I'm a very serious person, and I take my work very seriously. But I wrap it up in a court jester and a clown and make people laugh and make them feel good about themselves.

It is precisely for the reason that Truth is utterly simple, basic, elementary and totally obvious, that it is completely overlooked.

I don't know, I'm literally the most awkward, socially strange person.

Songs are funny things. They can slip across borders. Proliferate in prisons. Penetrate hard shells. I always believed that the right song at the right moment could change history.

If you're feeling alone, and your weariness has grown, look up above, and thank God for His love. There's nothing you can do, to change His love for you; hold on friend, it's not the end. Something beautiful will come, the clouds will part for the sun, the skies will break for the Son, and the Father will say 'Well done.' But until then, until then, you're not alone. He can make bread from stone. Hold on to Him, and He'll hold on to you. Take one day at a time, pray for faith and be kind, and when forgetful becomes your mind, remember what He said, 'You are mine.'

A person who acquires English has access to all the things that that language makes possible.

I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing out of a song, but he can, which takes a lot of imagination.

Never let a person's weakness get in the way of their strength.

I'm very confident in how I project my personality.

Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His groans thy songs, His pains thine ease, His shame thy glory, His death thy life, His sufferings thy salvation.

I believe in the person I want to become.

Once in a while it happens that I vomit up a bunny... it's not reason for one to blush and isolate oneself and to walk around keeping one's mouth shut.

When I was 15, all I knew was that I had to be somebody and that I could be somebody. So I exploited the only thing I knew, which was singing and songwriting.

Every relationship for a Christian is an opportunity to love another person like God has loved us.

The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.