Dr. John Quotes

Truth is not what I say it is, and not what you think it is. Truth is what God's word says it is.

The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.

Wherever Law ends, Tyranny begins.

If I have succeeded better than many who surround me, it has been chiefly - may I say almost solely - from universal assiduity.

If you don't want your tax dollars to help the poor, then stop saying that you want a country based on Christian values. Because you don't!

Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

There are risks and costs to action. But they are far less than the long range risks of comfortable inaction.

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

Prayer is an earnest and familiar talking with God.

I was always the squarest person in the cool room, and alternatively, sometimes the weirder person at the mainstream table.

I was never able to have three of four beers. One's too many, and ten just ain't enough. Basically it's the way I've been since high school.

Salvation is not just something God gives you that is going to bless you after you die, it is having the presence of the lord now.

Whosoever will reign with Christ in heaven, must have Christ reigning in him on earth

If a community values its children, it must cherish its mothers.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones.

Now that I no longer desire all, I have it all without desire.

In conclusion, I submit that, far from science having buried God, not only do the results of science point towards his existence, but the scientific enterprise itself is validated by his existence.

The higher the hill, the stronger the wind: so the loftier the life, the stronger the enemy's temptations.

Let us always guard our tongue; not that it should always be silent, but that it should speak at the proper time.

Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.

Atheism is a fairy story for people afraid of the Light.

Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

Social justice cannot be attained by violence. Violence kills what it intends to create.

Leadership is the sum of those qualities of intellect, human understanding, and moral character that enables a person to inspire and control a group of people successfully.

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

In all cases, the Church is to be judged by the Scripture, not the Scripture by the Church.

If I’m not showing grace . . . have I forgotten the grace I’ve been shown?

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple... It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

I hit the ball as hard as I can. If I can find it, I hit it again.

A just society is a society that if you knew everything about it, you'd be willing to enter it in a random place.

I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I want to be, I am not what I hope to be in another world; but still I am not what I once used to be, and by the grace of God I am what I am

There is no reconciliation until you recognize the dignity of the other, until you see their view- you have to enter into the pain of the people. You've got to feel their need.

Why do people shush animals? Theyve never spoken

The purpose of prayer is emphatically not to bend God's will to ours, but rather to align our will to his.

It is better to err by excess of mercy than by excess of severity. . .Wilt thou become a Saint? Be severe to thyself but kind to others.

I've come to view Jesus much the way I view Elvis. I love the guy but the fan clubs really freak me out.

I think music is an instrument. It can create the initial thought patterns that can change the thinking of people.

I want to throw open the windows of the Church so that we can see out and the people can see in.

It’s like there is this predator energy on this planet, and this predator energy feeds on the essence of the spirit.

Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Do not walk through time without leaving worthy evidence of your passage.

Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations.

You can’t confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.

Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality.

From Mary we learn to surrender to God's Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!

Satan's greatest success is in making people think they have plenty of time before they die to consider their eternal welfare.

To see evil and not call it evil is evil.