James Pike famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A man needs self-acceptance or he can't live with himself; he needs self-criticism or others can't live with him.
-- James Pike

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Remember that life is not measured in hours but in accomplishments.
-- James Pike

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It is disgraceful that people are being barred from neighborhoods and clubs on a basis that would have barred Jesus Himself.
-- James Pike

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The eleven o'clock hour on Sunday is the most segregated hour in American life.
-- James Pike

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If a person lacks self- acceptance, he can't live with himself; if he lacks self-criticism, others can't live with him.
-- James Pike

#Acceptance #Men #Self
We put ourselves there. The door to hell is locked from the inside.
-- James Pike

#Doors #Hell #Locked

As I took a step toward him your eyes met mine and I saw the silent pleading for forgiveness or acceptance. I wasn't sure which. All I knew was you were Sawyer's now. My best friend was gone. I envied him and hated him for the first time that day. He'd finaly won the one prize I thought was mine.
Life is precious. We should not take anything for granted. Living every moment as if it was our first and last is a genuine life of gratitude, acceptance and wisdom.
Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.
We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.
Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.
I have a dreadful fear that the more you try to prevent revealing the self, the more you do.
Birth is a shadow. Courage, self-sustained, outlords succession's phlegm, and needs no ancestors.
The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.
When I make a photograph I want it to be an altogether new object, complete and self-contained, whose basic condition is order (unlike the world of events and actions whose permanent condition is change and disorder).

James Pike famous quotes

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