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Quotes from David Jones

Doctors coin money when they do procedures but family medicine doesn't have any procedures.
~ David Jones
It is both a blessing And a curse To feel everything So very deeply.
~ David Jones
Loving you was the most exquisite form of self destruction
~ David Jones
For they were unseasoned, nor inured, not knowing this to be much less than the beginning of sorrow.
~ David Jones
He thought it disproportionate in its violence considering the fragility of us.
~ David Jones
But how intolerable bright the morning is where we who are alive and remain, walk lifted up, carried forward by an effective word.
~ David Jones
They bright whiten all this sepulchre with powdered chloride of lime. It's a perfectly sanitary war.
~ David Jones
and how is a man to know the habits of their God, whether He smites suddenly or withholds, if you mishandle the things set apart, the objects of His people He is jealous of.
~ David Jones
As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.
~ David Jones
Each of us has a certain ministry to perform, and we will each have to answer to God for what we have done with that gift. What have you done with the talents God has given you?
~ David Jones
Son of man, the people of Israel are saying, "He's talking about the distant future. His visions won't come true for a long, long time." Therefore, tell them, "This is what the Sovereign Lord says: No more delay! I will now do everything I have threatened. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!" (Ezekiel 12:27-28 NLT)
~ David Jones
you just stay in the will of God and things will work out. If God doesn't tell you anything in particular to do, then don't do anything. Just wait on Him.
~ David Jones
Jesus spoke of false christs and false prophets, of wars and rumors of wars, of famines, pestilences, and earthquakes "in many parts of the world" (Matt. 24:7 NLT). "All these," He said, "are the beginning of sorrows" (Matt. 24:8 KJV). He also spoke of widespread and pervasive persecution of the saints. He then said something surprising, "And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another" (Matt. 24:10 KJV).
~ David Jones
The monsters in My head always knew That I would Lose you in The end
~ David Jones
For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking for that blessed hope, and the
~ David Jones
glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works. These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no man despise thee (Titus 2:11-15).
~ David Jones
Why did I write this? " Although I desire that all kinds of readers enjoy my novel, my deepest wish is that it finds those readers that really need it. In a way like when I re-read The Outsiders countless times during reading time in the fourth grade or when I read Kerouac's book is in high school.
~ David Jones
Fear not them which destroy the body, but are not able to kill the soul; but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell (Matt. 10:28 KJV). We should all truly love God, fear God, and be prepared to meet Him when our time comes to leave this earth and stand before Him to give an account. We never really know when our time will come to leave this life. Let's make sure we're ready!
~ David Jones
Metaphorically, Daoism anticipates something like the butterfly effect. Way-making (dao) gives rise to continuity, Continuity gives rise to difference, Difference to plurality, And plurality gives rise to the manifold of everything that is happening (wanwu) In Chinese thought, this transformation is called Dahua, the great transformation, a principle that seems to express glimpses of universal evolution.
~ David Jones