Jim Davis > Quotes

“Vegetables are a must on a diet. I suggest carrot cake, zucchini bread, and pumpkin pie.”
― Jim Davis

“If you are patient...and wait long enough...Nothing will happen ”
― Jim Davis

“Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.”
― Jim Davis

“Deep fry that sucker! - Garfield”
― Jim Davis

“An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future so vivid that it can entice... or terrify, all depending upon how we conduct ourselves today. ”
― Jim Davis

“It's amazing what one can accomplish when one doesn't know what one can't do.”
― Jim Davis

“Don't eat fruits or nuts. You are what you eat.”
― Jim Davis

“I never met a lasagna I didn't like”
― Jim Davis

“In my head, the sky is blue, the grass is green and cats are orange.”
― Jim Davis, In Dog Years I'd Be Dead: Garfield at 25

“Jon: Our only thought is to entertain you!
Garfield: Feed me.”
― Jim Davis

“I have a fear of letting my mind wander. I'm afraid it might not come back.”
― - Jim Davis Garfield

“There is never a need to outrun anything you can outwit.”
― Jim Davis, Garfield Swallows His Pride

“When in doubt, pig out!”
― Jim Davis

“Great chefs know it's the appearance of food that counts...but great eaters know its the amount of food that counts”
― Jim Davis, Garfield Rounds Out

“Clasping your hands together means you are serious. Clasping them around someone else's throat means you are very serious”
― Jim Davis

“He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.”
― Jim Davis

“There's only one thing to do in crisis like this - SLEEP ON IT!

Garfield, the cat.”
― Jim Davis

“The Ego Rip
Step 1: Make a list of all your short comings.
Step 2: Grasp list firmly in both hands.
Step 3: Rip list to shreds.
Step 4: Consider yourself perfect.”
― Jim Davis

“A little ego goes nowhere.”
― Jim Davis

“Wimps take life as it comes; superior people slap life up the side of the head until it gives them turf.”
― Jim Davis

“I've never met a lasagna I didn't like”
― Jim Davis

“It's not the valleys in life I dread so much as the dips.”
― Jim Davis, Garfield Weighs In

“Life is a food chain, and it's better to be the diner than the dinner.”
― Jim Davis

“God doesn’t love some future version of us; he loves us—not because we earned it, but because Jesus earned it for us.”
― Jim Davis, The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

“One pastor we know in a highly mobile city often says his job feels like he is “hugging a parade as it is going by him.”
― Jim Davis, The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

“The only really important thing, their friendship, had survived the storm, and that made them both feel very, very lucky.”
― Jim Davis, Garfield's Judgment Day

“The American church and especially evangelicalism is largely built for the nuclear family or those on that track. The young, single parent working multiple jobs to make ends meet is going to find it harder to create the bandwidth necessary for meaningful church involvement and be more likely to experience depression and even shame in a church culture that creates programs that work for and elevate the nuclear family. The early church that used to cheerfully bring the poor and destitute into their lives now (at least in the US) often serves them at a distance through benevolence programs without fully embracing them into their church family. Modern American churches are financially incentivized to target the wealthy and create a space where those on track feel comfortable. Biblical hospitality, though, is so much more than just throwing money at a problem, and the net result is that the average American church is not truly hospitable to the less fortunate, making them feel like outsiders in our midst.”
― Jim Davis, The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

“As the social pressures to identify as Christian in our culture are removed and as new pressures mount to discourage people from identifying as Christian, many who were never Christians in the first place are finally able to freely walk away.”
― Jim Davis, The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

“At some point, the rate of dechurching will slow down, not necessarily because the underlying reasons have been mitigated, but simply because there won’t be enough people going to church regularly to sustain the rate of people leaving the church. The dechurched will give way to the unchurched—those who never attended church to begin with.”
― Jim Davis, The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?

“For the first time in the eight decades that Gallup has tracked American religious membership, more adults in the United States do not attend church than attend church.”
― Jim Davis, The Great Dechurching: Who’s Leaving, Why Are They Going, and What Will It Take to Bring Them Back?