Quotes About Jay Adams

#1. Jay Adams may not have been the world's best skater, but he was the man, the real deal, the original, the first. He is the archetype of our shared heritage.

Stacy Peralta

#2. You may have sought and tried to obtain instant godliness. There is no such thing....We want somebody to give us three easy steps to godliness, and we'll take them next Friday and be godly. The trouble is, godliness doesn't come that way.
~Jay Adams~

Jerry Bridges

#3. When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing.

Irwin Shaw

#4. You didn't quit skateboarding because you got old, you got old because you quit skateboarding.

Jay Adams

#5. Who knew Demon Child would have such a normal name? I expected something exotic like Serena or Destiny or the Evil One That Comes in the Night to Make Us Chilly.

Darynda Jones

#6. I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.

Hugh Lofting

#7. Religion gets its morality from us. We don't get our morality from religion.

Christopher Hitchens

#8. Indian men don't understand fashion unless they are gay.

Sonam Kapoor

#9. We are to vigorously and violently demolish all the fortifications of the foe, winning the battle and talking him captive for Christ. The Church is not to assume a defensive posture, but may take aggressive action to overcome evil by means of good.

Jay E. Adams

#10. There are no great things, only small things with great love. Happy are those.

Mother Teresa

#11. I don't care what problem you face; it has no power to defeat the cross of Christ.

Jay E. Adams

#12. Jesus Christ must be at the heart of every sermon you preach.

Jay Adams

#13. God's grace in saving miserable sinners has been replaced by heretical teaching, such as saying that it is because we are so valuable that Christ came to redeem us. Not all who hold self-esteem views go so far, but many do.

Jay Adams

#14. There is no generally accepted procedure in identifying UFO.

Toba Beta

#15. Mankind was designed to function as a worshipper of God for eternity, and the intent was for all aspects of his life to be acts of worship to the living God.

Jay E. Adams

#16. People ask me why I don't tweet. Honestly, I'm so sick of myself.

Blake Lively

#17. Evil is powerful, but good is more powerful. In fact, evil is so powerful that only good has the power to overcome evil. Darkness can be driven away only by light.

Jay E. Adams

#18. I missed a lot of good times, doing things that I shouldn't have been doing. There are certain mistakes I'd like to change, but I'm not going to trip on it to hard.

Jay Adams

#19. The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother.

Jay E. Adams

#20. She liked her toys to have a little bite, and Nick was all cuddle.

Stylo Fantome

#21. Photography was the first available demonstration that light could indeed exert an action sufficient to cause changes in material bodies.

Henry Fox Talbot

#22. My ambition in life: to become successful enough to resume my career as a neurasthenic.

Mason Cooley

#23. Yahoo is all about content. Deep reservoirs of important content in many, many strong areas.

Terry Semel

#24. FORTITUDE IS THE CAPACITY TO SAY NO WHEN THE WORLD WANTS TO HEAR 'YES'

Erich Fromm