J Quotes
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“Just as our love for God begins with listening to God's Word, the beginning of love for other Christians is learning to listen to them.”
Source: Life Together: Prayerbook of the Bible
“Just as our parents quieted us when we were noisy by putting us in front of the television set, maybe we're now learning to quiet our own adult noise with Prozac.”
Source: Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America
“Just as our parents' souls revolted against God, their bodies revolted against their souls, to which they had been subject. And they realized 'that they were naked.”
Source: The Privilege of Being a Woman
“Just as our Redeemer gave His life as a vicarious sacrifice for all men, and in so doing became our Savior, even so we, in a small measure, when we engage in proxy work in the temple, become as saviors to those on the other side.”
“Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.”
“Just as our view of work affects our real experience of it, so too does our view of leisure. If our mindset conceives of free time, hobby time, or family time as non-productive, then we will, in fact, make it a waste of time.”
“Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.”
“Just as outright euphoria is often a sign of a market top, fear is for sure a sign of a market bottom. Time and time again, in every market cycle I have witnessed, the extremes of emotion always appear, even among experienced investors. When the world wants to buy only treasury bills, you can almost close your eys and get long stocks.”
“Just as parents care for their children, you should bear in mind the whole universe.”
“Just as Parkinson's isn't a big topic of conversation in my house, neither is my career.”
“Just as Patience read the people in Granite Point, searching for the troubled bits in their bodies or hearts, and Nettie collected the harvest and composed meals that sustained the very same parts, Sorrel wove her plants and flowers into a tapestry of her own, first in her imagination, then on paper using watercolors and ink to bring a garden to life. Then, when everything was ready, each bulb accounted for, each tender sapling and fragile seedling, Sorrel poured that knowledge, and her body and heart, into the fertile soil.”
Source: The Forbidden Garden
“Just as people are born, live a time, and die by diseases or old age, in the same way republics are formed, flower a few centuries, and perish finally by the audacity of a citizen, or by the weapons of their enemies. All has their period; all empires, and largest monarchies even, have only so much time: the republics feel continually that this time will arrive, and they look at any too-powerful family as the carriers of a disease which will give them the blow of death.”
Source: Anti-Machiavel
“Just as people believe that power often goes to those who don't deserve it, a beautiful girl often marries the ugly man in town.”
“Just as people often confused inequality with poverty, they often confuse the goal of reducing inequality with the goal of fostering economic growth. But the findings on the critical role played by inequality itself - on health, decision making, political and social divisions - argue that economic growth by itself is not sufficient.”
Source: The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die
“Just as physical energy comes from diet, exercise and rest, emotional energy comes from the ways you take care of yourself emotionally -- living in a way that makes you feel inspired, hopeful, self-confident, playful, loving and in touch with what you care about most.”
“Just as physical events are easier when you train for them, your life and people problems are easier to manage when you train for them.”
Source: Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success
“Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.”
“Just as physical wounds heal at different rates in different people, so do emotional wounds. Everyone has different needs and speeds.”
Source: Bounce Back!: How to Thrive in the Face of Adversity
“Just as pilots gain practice with flight simulators, people might acquire social experience by reading fiction.”
“Just as plagues were visited on Pharaoh so will pestilences and disasters be visited on the white man. Why, it has already started: God has begun to send them heat when they expect cold; he sends them cold when they expect heat. Their crops are dying, their children are being born with all kinds of deformities, the rivers and lakes are coming out of the belly of the earth to wash them away.”
“Just as plants need water to grow, skills need practice to thrive.”
Source: These Words Pour Like Rain
“Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.”
“Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations. "If I can but grasp it, if I can but cognise it", so he thinks, "I can make it my servant.”
Source: Man in the Modern Age
“Just as primitive man believed himself to stand face to face with demons and believed that could he but know their names he would become their master, so is contemporary man faced by this incomprehensible, which disorders his calculations.”
“Just as Prometheus delivered stolen fire to man, so Eve, and the serpent, delivered man into self-consciousness, setting him up, were it not for his short lifespan, as rival to God. At the same time, man’s self-consciousness removed him from nature into a life of toil, doubt, fear, guilt, shame, blame, enmity, loneliness, and frailty—and the product of this separation, the fruit and flower of this exile, is, of course, culture. ‘God,’ said the writer Victor Hugo, ‘made only water, but man made wine.”
Source: For Better For Worse: Should I Get Married?
“Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.”
“Just as Rem stood now by her side, never truly gone, so too would this wreck of a forest reclaim life. God had created it that way--to rebound from any ruin that man could wreak. To grow again. Thrive again. Cover over the scars with new life. That was what God's creation did, plant and animal and man.”
Source: Yesterday's Tides
“Just as Renaissance artists provided narratives for the era they lived in, so do I. I'm always looking beyond the surface. I've done that ever since I first picked up a camera.”
“Just as riches are an impediment to virtue in the wicked, so in the good they are an aid of virtue.”
“Just as ripples radiate from the place where a stone is thrown into a pool of water, our sometime-unconscious thoughts, feelings, emotions, and beliefs create the “disturbances” in the field that become the blueprints for our lives.”
“Just as ripples spread out when a single pebble is dropped into water, the actions of individuals can have far-reaching effects.”
“Just as roosters scream in the morning, being reborn is the polar opposite. You are blinded by bliss and numb to such pains.”
“Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence.”
Source: Path To Tranquility
“Just as salt brings out the best in food, so too, Christ brings out the best in us as others experience the flavor of Christ through us.”
Source: Taste and See: Discovering God among Butchers, Bakers, and Fresh Food Makers
“Just as science is more immediate and exciting than the history of science, so is insight more compelling than a history of insight.”
“Just as science without faith is landlocked, faith without science floats on the surface.”
Source: If the Ocean Has a Soul: A Marine Biologist's Pursuit of Truth through Deep Waters of Faith and Science
“Just as she was about to turn, she caught a whiff of something sweet. She inhaled deeply, instinctively wanting to savor it, but then she nearly choked when it landed on her tongue with a bitter taste. It was so strong she actually made a face.
That, her grandmother had described to her once after making a particularly bad lemon cream pie, was exactly what regret tasted like.”
Source: The Peach Keeper
“Just as she was unaware of the hidden currents of politics running below the surface of College affairs, so the Scholars, for their part, would have been unable to see the rich seething stew of alliances and enmities and feuds and treaties which was a child’s life in Oxford. Children playing together: how pleasant to see! What could be more innocent and charming?”
Source: The Golden Compass
“Just as skin cells serve as the first line of protection against harm, sealing and protecting fragile wounds, trust sealed my relationship with the Creator and protected me from harm by securing and strengthening my hopes and dreams for a healthy life.”
Source: Between Wounded and Well: Lessons in Healing
“Just as smiles often follow tears, the sun rose full and bright on the morning..”
Source: Franklin's Folly
“Just as so many rivers, so many showers of rain from above, so many medicinal springs do not alter the taste of the sea, so the pressure of adversity does not affect the mind of the brave man. For it maintains its balance, and over all that happens it throws its own complexion, because it is more powerful than external circumstances.”
“Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood.”
“Just as some books are so beautiful and intriguing that you never want to put them down, forever eager of what lies beyond the scope of a single page, so you never cease to intrigue me, leaving me in constant yearning of all that resides within you.”
“Just as some historians seemed more shocked that the author of the Declaration of Independence had sex with Sally Hemmings than by the fact that he owned her, Clinton received far more censure for his sexual misdeeds than for other moral lapses, such as his politically motivated decision to ignore the finding of a bipartisan panel that issuing needles to drug addicts would save lives and curtail the spread of AIDS without increasing drug addiction.”
“Just as some of the most ardent political ideologues in the West are young people, revolutionaries, the '60s generation, - in Islam some of the most religious people are the youngsters. But more important than that, the prophet - in his writings, in his traditions - and the Koran itself say that the Muslim youth are the ones whom the future depends on and that it's up to them to do the fighting.”
“Just as some of the toughest fights physically are between those mostly alike, the roughest of fights verbally are between fighters emotionally alike.”
“Just as some people may conceal their own sinfulness thus seeming better than the norm, others expose their own sinfulness thus seeming worse than the norm.”
Source: Killosophy
“Just as some plants bear fruit only if they don't shoot up too high, so in practical arts the leaves and flowers of theory must be pruned and the plant kept close to its proper soil- experience.”
Source: On War
“Just as some things are too strange for fiction, others are too true for journalism.”
“Just as someone who's been interested in radio and programming for so long, I can usually tell when an interviewer is doing a segment just to fill a programming slot. They ask questions, but they don't care about the answers.”