Jim Bishop

“To me, the suburbs are the sticks.”

“Autumn is the mellower season, and what we lose in flowers we more than gain in fruits.”

“The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing in the rain.”

“A home is a place where a man can loaf and be himself.”

“Parenthood is a partnership with God. You are molding a soul for eternity.”

“The story of Jesus is the story of God becoming a man, so that we might know what God is like.”

“The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a single strand.”

“The clock of life is wound but once, and no man has the power to tell just when the hands will stop.”

“The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.”

“The bravest of individuals is the one who obeys his or her conscience.”

“God is the only one who can make the valley of trouble a door of hope.”

“A true friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.”

“Nothing is as sad as seeing a young pessimist.”

“True prayer is a way of life, not just for use in cases of emergency.”

“A man who is not a father to his children is not a man.”

“A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does what he wants to do.”

“No one can say the word ‘mother’ without hearing it with a little-boy accent.”