Jay Bateman:
CLASS OF 2008
Iowa City High SchoolClass of 2008
Iowa city, IA
West High SchoolClass of 2008
Iowa city, IA
Jay's Story
Jay is from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. Jay's schools include Iowa City High School. Jay later attended University of Iowa, Emmaus Bible College, Liberty University.
Music Jay likes includes Led Zeppelin Official, Tool, Agnus Dei Samuel Barber. Books Jay likes include War and Peace, Knowing God J.I. Packer, lectures to my students. Movies Jay likes include Hot Fuzz, There Will Be Blood, The Birds. TV shows Jay likes include Jeopardy!, Survivorman featuring Les Stroud, Lie to Me.
One of Jay's favorite quotes is:""My commandment is this -- to love one another, just as I have loved you. " (Jesus Christ, John 15:12)
"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time." (Winston Churchill)
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." (Mark Twain)
"The atheist is like the little child who has to sit on his father's lap in order to slap him in the face." (Unknown 20th Century Christian Apologist)
"A fool has said in his heart, 'There is no God.'" (King David; Psalm 14:1)
"For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life..." (Paul the Apostle; Romans 6:23)
"Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your path straight." (King Solomon; Proverbs 3:5)
"Anyone wishing to see what is must consider what has been: all things of this world in every era have their counterparts in ancient times." (Niccolo Machiavelli)
"And, besides, who isn't suffering from aberration, nowadays? -- you, I, all of us are in a state of aberration, and th...Expand for more
ere are ever so many examples of it: a man sits singing a song, suddenly something annoys him, he takes a pistol and shoots the first person he comes across, and no blames him for it." -- Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"People talk sometimes of bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it." -- Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
"He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God." -- Micah 6:8, NIV Bible
"...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind."
--David Ricardo
"Certainly, it is a world of scarcity. But the scarcity is not confined to iron ore and arable land. The most constricting scarcities are those of character and personality."
--William R. Allen
"I am come to a time of life in which it is not permitted that we should trifle with our existence. I am fallen into a state of the world, that will not suffer me to play at little sports, or to enfeeble the part I am bound to take, by smaller collateral considerations. I cannot proceed, as if things went on in a beaten circle of events, such as I have known them for half a century."
--Edmund Burke
Christy: "Oh...this gorilla bar is so chewish."
Me: "Don't you mean 'This granola bar is so chewy"?
Christy: "Oh yeah...."".
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