Jim Palmer famous quotes

04-12-2025

Religion made half of us afraid to die, and the other half afraid to live.
-- Jim Palmer

#Half #Other Half #Made
I once dreamed of launching revolutions, sparking movements, mobilizing the masses, and changing everything. Now Iâ€™ve learned the beauty and profound significance of simply loving my neighbor.
-- Jim Palmer

#Profound #Movement #Revolution
You can't win if nobody catches the ball in the outfield. You are only as good as the team you have behind you.
-- Jim Palmer

#Team #Winning #Balls
Being Jesus means that we go through life embracing it all fully and feeling it all deeply. That we donâ€™t hide and try to protect ourselves. That we live. That we show up. That we laugh. That we cry. That we hurt. That we heal. That we care. That we love. And then, that we wake up the next morning and sign up for it all over again.
-- Jim Palmer

#Jesus #Hurt #Morning
You have to be honest, have integrity, be able to cooperate and get along with other people. Sigma Chi is a great place to learn that and that's why it's a great thing to join this fraternity.
-- Jim Palmer

#Integrity #People #Able
Most pitchers are too smart to manage.
-- Jim Palmer

#Smart #Pitcher #Manage
Imagine what else is true if you understood there is nothing fundamentally wrong with you.
-- Jim Palmer

#Imagine #Understood
There are really only two options - you can feel things, or you can shut down. But, once you decide to feel things, you don't get to pick and choose what you feel.
-- Jim Palmer

#Two #Feels
Losing is no disgrace if you've given your best.
-- Jim Palmer

#Sports #Losing #Given
Your time as the entrepreneur is worth hundreds of dollars an hour. If you are doing tasks you could hire out, those are stopping you from earning that kind of money.
-- Jim Palmer

#Entrepreneur #Marketing #Tasks
If you can't run, and the plays in front of you, you just can't get gay.
-- Jim Palmer

#Running #Gay #Play
One of the most freeing discoveries these past few years in my relationship with God is discovering that God is not a belief system or a fixed set of theological propositions.
-- Jim Palmer

#Past #Discovery #Years
Maybe being Jesus is simply seeing people as they truly are.
-- Jim Palmer

#Jesus #People
There's only one cure for what's wrong with all of us pitchers, and that's to take a year off. Then, after you've gone a year without throwing, quit altogether.
-- Jim Palmer

#Years #Gone #Quitting
Two weeks, maybe three. You never know with psychosomatic injuries You have to take your time with them.
-- Jim Palmer

#Two #Three #Week
There is a peace deep within myself from knowing that all things are held within and sustained by the love of God.
-- Jim Palmer

#Knowing #God Love
I hate the cursed Oriole fundamentals... I've been doing them since 1964. I do them in my sleep. I hate spring training.
-- Jim Palmer

#Hate #Spring #Sleep
The only thing Earl (Weaver) knows about big-league pitching is that he couldn't hit it.
-- Jim Palmer

#League #Pitching #Weavers
FEAR IS A REACTION YOU HAVE WHEN YOUâ€™RE GETTING CLOSER TO THE TRUTH
-- Jim Palmer

#Reactions
I put away that stuffed God I had all stitched up with my human understandings and fears. God is less formulaic and quantifiable as he once used to be, but experiencing the reality of his love is infinitely better than dragging that other one around.
-- Jim Palmer

#Reality #Love Is #Understanding

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