Dr. John Quotes

The electron: may it never be of any use to anybody!

Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.

The behaviorist advances the view that what the psychologists have hitherto called thought is in short nothing but talking to ourselves.

This is my life, this is my passion, this is all I got.

Wilderness is a necessity... there must be places for human beings to satisfy their souls.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

Enjoy yourself as much as you like - if only you keep from sin.

Let the main object... to seek and to find a method of instruction, by which teachers may teach less, but learners learn more.

As the world is weary of me so am I of it.

Have a great love for those who contradict and fail to love you, for in this way love is begotten in a heart that has no love.

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

When someone throws trash on you, shake it off, stomp on it, and use it to rise to the top!

When people tell me nothing has changed, I say come walk in my shoes and I will show you change.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

We must allow the Word of God to confront us, to disturb our security, to undermine our complacency and to overthrow our patterns of thought and behavior.

Show me where you spend your time, money and energy and I'll tell you what you worship.

A scientific theory is a tool and not a creed.

The central issue is never strategy, structure, culture, or systems. The core of the matter is always about changing the behavior of people.

The Gospel is not how people get to heaven. The Gospel is how people get to God.

I believe nicotine plus caffeine equals protein.

You want The Next Big Thing? Let me take my pants off!

Image is what people think we are. Integrity is what we really are.

Run, jump, shout, but do not sin.

Leaders become great, not because of their power, but because of their ability to empower others.

The reason there are so many stupid people is because it's illegal to kill them.

Classes will dull your mind, destroy the potential for authentic creativity.

Power always thinks... that it is doing God's service when it is violating all his laws.

God breathes through us so completely...So gently we hardly feel it...yet it is our everything.

Men have said that the cross of Christ was not a heroic thing, but I want to tell you that the cross of Jesus Christ has put more heroism in the souls of men than any other event in human history.

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.

The mountains are calling and I must go.

We are not the sum of our weaknesses and failures, we are the sum of the Father's love for us and our real capacity to become the image of His Son Jesus.

Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.

Starting in the middle of a musical sentence and moving in both directions at once.

I don't think I've ever stepped into a gym - they won't let me smoke there. I just thank God Miller Lite isn't as fattening as most beers. If I cut back on beer, though, I'd look anorexic.

For the faithful, Spirit-filled Christian, every place becomes a place of prayer.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind.

I'd like to point out to people the divine in a musical language that transcends words. I want to speak to their souls.

How can the child learn to be a free and responsible citizen when the teacher is bound?

My music is the spiritual expression of what I am: my faith, my knowledge, my being.

I fear nothing and I regret less.

Never ask God to provide for you what you can provide for yourself. Get up and go get it because God will only provide what you can't.

Our love should not be just words and talk; it must be true love, which shows itself in action.

It's better to cry than be angry, because anger hurts others while tears flow silently through the soul and cleans the heart.

There are times when you devote yourself to a higher cause than personal safety.

Jesus Christ is not just 'my personal Savior'. He is Lord.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.