Jermaine Jenas quotes

Carrying a knife has come from my fear of what ­someone might do to me. So I'll do ­something to them first. All you have to do is get a hint of danger and I'll all-out attack. There won't be waiting about to see if this person will attack me first.
-- Jermaine Jenas

#Waiting #Danger

There have always been ­gangland-type areas in Nottingham - but what's really hit me hard is kids as young as eight are now carrying knives to school. That was something I never saw when I was growing up. The police and ­families have got a ­responsibility. These young people are ­feeling trapped. They don't even have somewhere to go to just have fun.
-- Jermaine Jenas

#Growing Up #Fun #Responsibility

People have to carry on because if you don't the violence wins. We need to keep incentivising our youths to stop this vicious cycle.
-- Jermaine Jenas

#Winning #People #Violence

There have always been ­gangland-type areas in Nottingham - but what's really hit me hard is kids as young as eight are now carrying knives to school. That was something I never saw when I was growing up. The police and ­families have got a ­responsibility. These young people are ­feeling trapped. They don't even have somewhere to go to just have fun.
-- Jermaine Jenas

#Growing Up #Fun #Responsibility

Salvation, the prophets tell us, is preconditioned by repentance. The redeeming act of God waits upon man's initiative.

Don't take rest after your first victory because if you fail in second, more lips are waiting to say that your first victory was just luck.

Faith is not the clinging to a shrine but an endless pilgrimage of the heart. Audacious longing, burning songs, daring thoughts, an impulse overwhelming the heart, usurping the mind--these are all a drive towards serving Him who rings our hearts like a bell. It is as if He were waiting to enter our empty, perishing lives.

Everything comes to the man who won't wait.

Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness, if you will; they are places for doing nothing and they have no life of their own. ... their one constant is what might be called a decorative rigor mortis ...

Waiting is a large part of living. Great, passive, negative chunks of our time are consumed by waiting, from birth to death. Waiting is a special kind of activity - if activity is the right word for it - because we are held in enforced suspension between people and places, removed from the normal rhythms of our days and lives.

Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!

Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.

Change holds danger, but also the potential for something new ~ and better ~ to be born.

God is like a computer, the more software you put in, the greater the danger that extensions will conflict.