Dr. John Quotes

When your back is against the wall, there is only one thing to do, and that is turn around and fight.

An approximate answer to the right problem is worth a good deal more than an exact answer to an approximate problem.

To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller, is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbors.

Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another.

We must not think that [God] takes no notice of us, when He does not answer our wishes: for He has a right to distinguish what we actually need.

The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.

Our love grows soft if it is not strengthened by truth, and our truth grows hard if it is not softened by love.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

He who does not work, will not eat

Leadership defines what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires them to make it happen despite the obstacles.

No Spring nor Summer beauty hath such grace As I have seen in one Autumnal face.

He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.

Christ did not die for any upon condition, if they do believe; but He died for all God's elect, that they should believe.

Democracy may not be perfect, but at least I don't have to build a wall to keep my people in.

Gifts and abilities, no matter how magnificent, are either limited or enhanced by character.

With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.

And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

When God calls you to an extraordinary task, He provides extraordinary resources.

Faithfulness in little things is a big thing.

Contemplation is nothing else but a secret, peaceful, and loving infusion of God, which, if admitted, will set the soul on fire with the Spirit of love.

It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love

What we think or what we know or what we believe is in the end of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do

How good we are as preachers depends - not altogether, but (make no mistake!) primarily - on how good we are as men.

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided republic.

Be good. This will make your angel happy. When sorrows and misfortunes, physical or spiritual, afflict you, turn to your guardian angel with strong trust and he will help you.

I believe that education is the fundamental method of social progress and reform.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

Behind the mask of indifference is bottomless misery and behind apparent callousness, despair.

The best thing about being a statistician is that you get to play in everyone's backyard.

A comprehended god is no god.

The real process of education should be the process of learning to think through the application of real problems.

I believe that men are here to grow themselves into the best good that they can be - at least, this is what I want to do.

Leaders establish the vision for the future and set the strategy for getting there.

The power of evil men lives on the cowardice of the good.

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end

Too many people, when they get old, think that they have to live by the calendar.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

Worship is not about personality, temperament, personal limitations, church background, or comfort. It is about God.

The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.

All stable processes we shall predict. All unstable processes we shall control.

There is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a-hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same from them.

We must be global Christians with a global vision because our God is a global God.

Happiness is not determined by what's happening around you, but rather what's happening inside you. Most people depend on others to gain happiness, but the truth is, it always comes from within.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school

Wander a whole summer if you can. Time will not be taken from the sum of life. Instead of shortening, it will definitely lengthen it and make you truly immortal.