Lord Jim Quotes

#1. This is Nature - the balance of colossal forces ... the mighty Cosmos in perfect equilibrium produces - this ... sometimes it seems to me that man is come where he is not wanted ... why should he run about here and there, talking about the stars, disturbing the blades of grass?
from Lord Jim

Joseph Conrad

#2. Well, one day all the world's wizards and witches will kneel before Jesus and call Him 'Lord.

Jim Yackel

#3. The LORD is faithful to all his promises and loving toward all he has made

Jim Cymbala

#4. Is there any chance you'd overthrow the tyrannical Beast Lord and his psychotic consort?" "Yeah, I want a vacation." -Kate & Curran to Jim

Ilona Andrews

#5. He did run some, but I stopped him, my lord. Like, just now. In front of you. Right over there.

Jim Butcher

#6. Persistent calling upon the name of the Lord breaks through every stronghold of the devil, for nothing is impossible with God. For Christians in these troubled times there is simply no other way.

Jim Cymbala

#7. You cannot petition the Lord with prayer.

Jim Morrison

#8. Always seek peace between your heart and God, but in this world, always be careful to remain ever-restless, never satisfied, and always abounding in the work of the Lord.

Jim Elliot

#9. Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

Jim Elliot

#10. Do you know my dog's name?
[ ... ]
"It is from an ancient word, kerberos. It means 'spotted.'"
I blinked. "You're a genuine Greek god. You're the Lord of the Underworld. And ... you named your dog *Spot*?

Jim Butcher

#11. We are as the dead," Sha said. "Our purpose is to dedicate our lives to the service of our lord. And, when it is necessary, to surrender those lives. When we become what we are, we lose our lives - our names, our family, our homes, and our honour. All that remains is our lord.

Jim Butcher

#12. They wanted facts. Facts! They demanded facts from him, as if facts could explain anything!

Joseph Conrad

#13. I many no longer depend on pleasant impulses to bring me before the Lord. I must rather response to principles I know to be right, whether I feel them to be enjoyable or not.

Jim Elliot

#14. I seek not a long life, but a full one, like you Lord Jesus.

Jim Elliot

#15. Lord," Michael said. "We walk into darkness now. Our enemies will surround us. Please help to make us strong enough to do what needs to be done. Amen.

Jim Butcher

#16. It's great to hear from people who have been touched by these songs. It has been good to know that the Lord is using this in ways I am not even aware of.

Jim Cole

#17. There are no words. It was like The Lord of the Rings and All My Children made a baby with the Macho Man Randy Savage and a Whac-A-Mole machine. Butters sputtered

Jim Butcher

#18. She bowed her head and said, "Lord of hosts, please stand with us against this darkness." The quiet, bedrock-deep energy of true faith brushed against me.
Murphy echoed the gesture and the amen. Thomas and I tried to look theologically invisible.

Jim Butcher

#19. Trouble is one of God's great servants because it reminds us how much we continually need the Lord.

Jim Cymbala

#20. Teach me, Lord Jesus,... not to be hungering for the 'strange and peculiar' when the common, ordinary, and regular, rightly taken, will suffice to feed and satisfy the soul.

Jim Eliot

#21. Father, take my life, yea, my blood if Thou wilt, and consume it with Thine enveloping fire. I would not save it, for it is not mine to save. Have it Lord, have it all. Pour out my life as an oblation for the world. Blood is only of value as it flows before Thine altar

Jim Elliot

#22. Yielding your inner life to God will empower you to live the kind of outer life that honors the Lord and blesses others.

Jim George

#23. Does anyone really think that America today is lacking preachers, books, Bible translations, and neat doctrinal statements? What we really lack is the passion to call upon the Lord until he opens the heavens and shows himself powerful.

Jim Cymbala

#24. I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most.

Jim Cymbala

#25. (One does not simply walk into Mordor--except that was exactly what everyone in the story did anyway.)

Jim Butcher

#26. Let's stop blaming our unbelief on the pastor we once had, on our childhood, on circumstances, or on anything else. There is no excuse for us not to believe in the Lord.

Jim Cymbala

#27. Good Lord, I'm regretting this now," I muttered. "I have never - ever - smelled BO this bad in my life. And I once had s'mores wit a Sasquatch."
"Hang out with him for awhile," Mort gasped. "Eventually it's not so bad."
"Wow. Really?"
"No. Not really.

Jim Butcher

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

Jim George

#29. In the name of the Pizza Lord. Charge!

Jim Butcher

#30. Hail to the Beast Lord! I waved my spatula for emphasis.
Jim spared me an ugly look and turned to Dali.

Ilona Andrews

#31. Lean forward a little, my lord," Toot said instantly, and shouted, "Hey, Kernal Purpleweed! Come watch the Za Winter Lord Knight's back!"
I fought not to smile. "No, that's a metaphor," I said.
Toot frowned and scratched his head. "I don't know what it's for.

Jim Butcher

#32. Lord, give me firmness without hardness, steadfastness without dogmatism, love without weakness.

Jim Elliot

#33. Men plan. Fate Laughs.

Jim Butcher

#34. Don't yadda yadda the Lord, Harry. It's disrespectful.

Jim Butcher

#35. Your future and mine are determined by this one thing: seeking after the Lord.

Jim Cymbala

#36. We just have to have faith. The good Lord wouldn't give us more than we could bear.

Jim Butcher

#37. None of it gets to be 'old stuff', for it is Christ in print, the Living Word. We wouldn't think of rising in the morning without a facewash, but we often neglect that purgative cleansing of the Word of the Lord. It wakes us up to our responsibility

Jim Elliot

#38. Michael half-smiled. "The Lord will never give you a burden bigger than your shoulders can bear, Harry. All we can do is face what comes and have faith."
I gave him a sour glance. "I need to get myself some bigger shoulders, then. Someone in accounting must have made a mistake.

Jim Butcher

#39. If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.

Jim Thompson

#40. 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!

Jim George

#41. She wasn't much over five feet and a hundred pounds, and she looked a little scrawny around the neck and ankles. But that was all right. It was perfectly all right. The good Lord had known just where to put that flesh where it would really do some good.

Jim Thompson

#42. The glory of science is to imagine more than we can prove.

Freeman Dyson

#43. We pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God (Colossians 1:10).

Jim Cymbala