Dr. John Quotes
The pastor ought to have two voices: one, for gathering the sheep; and another, for warding off and driving away wolves and thieves. The Scripture supplies him with the means of doing both.
How does Satan mislead us? By misquoting Scripture. By leading us astray. By getting us to make excuses instead of repenting.
It's said that a wise person learns from his mistakes. A wiser one learns from others' mistakes. But the wisest person of all learns from others's successes.
Anyone who attempts to generate random numbers by deterministic means is, of course, living in a state of sin.
The person who insists on using yesterday's methods in today's world won't be in business tomorrow
I'm leaving my sorrows and all my memories behind to see what I find, somewhere in the shade near the sound of a sweet singing river, somewhere in the sun where the mountains make love to the sky.
Africa is our center of gravity, our cultural and spiritual mother and father, our beating heart, no matter where we live on the face of this earth.
Why in hell can't the Army do it if the Marines can. They are the same kind of men; why can't they be like Marines.
Peace doesn't come from finding a lake with no storms. It comes from having Jesus in the boat.
I'd like to know why well-educated idiots keep apologizing for lazy and complaining people who think the world owes them a living.
The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.
Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.
A friend of mine told me to shoot first and ask questions later. I was going to ask him why, but I had to shoot him.
If we cannot think alike, at least we may love alike; and can anything but love beget love?
There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the reward on my head!
Tolerance implies no lack of commitment to one's own beliefs. Rather it condemns the oppression or persecution of others.
Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
I say from time to time that the vote is precious. It's almost sacred. It is the most powerful nonviolent tool or instrument that we have in a democratic society. And we must use it.
Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
The fairest rules are those to which everyone would agree if they did not know how much power they would have.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.
Love between man and woman cannot be built without sacrifices and self-denial.
The greatest value of a picture is when it forces us to notice what we never expected to see.
Englishmen learn Christ's law best in English. Moses heard God's law in his own tongue; so did Christ's apostles.
I believe that we are here for each other, not against each other. Everything comes from an understanding that you are a gift in my life - whoever you are, whatever our differences.
The future of life on Earth depends on our ability to see the sacred where others see only the common
The solution to any problem -work, love, money, whatever -is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.
A flash of harmless lightning, A mist of rainbow dyes, The burnished sunbeams brightening From flower to flower he flies.
There is hardly anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
The free exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world.
I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.
Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance.
Effective leaders help others to understand the necessity of change and to accept a common vision of the desired outcome.
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.
A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
I fell in love with her when we were together, then fell deeper in love with her in the years we were apart.
By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.
A Christian should always remember that the value of his good works is not based on their number and excellence, but on the love of God which prompts him to do these things.