John Quotes
Your Lord is a God of mercy and bountifulness: be a source of mercy and bountifulness to your neighbors. If you will be such, you will find salvation yourself with everlasting glory.
Contemplation places us in a purity and radiance which is far above our understanding.
One of the hardest things in the world is to stop being the prodigal son without turning into the elder brother.
The greatest moment of your life is now. This moment is God's irreplaceable gift to you.
The good Lord send out a spirit of mortification to cure our distempers, or we are in a sad condition!
After all, a district judge who gives harsh sentences to Yankees fans and lenient sentences to Red Sox fans would not be acting reasonably even if her procedural rulings were impeccable.
Life is precarious, and life is precious. Don't presume you will have it tomorrow, and don't waste it today.
God is at work in the worst of times. He is at work doing a thousand things no one can see but him.
Love supposes, is, and does many things, but basically it is practiced in the act of sharing.
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was.
My stern chase after time is, to borrow a simile from Tom Paine, like the race of a man with a wooden leg after a horse.
God's people should be baptized because God commanded it, not because some church requires it.
Parents should not agonize over anything a child does or fails to do if the child is perfectly capable of agonizing over it himself.
Men cannot not live by exchanging articles, but producing them. They live by work not trade.
You may either win your peace or buy it: win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.
Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.
God will put up with a great many things in the human heart, but there is one thing that He will not put up with in it--a second place. He who offers God a second place, offers Him no place.
Sometimes you have to get rid of something that's good, and tinker with something that's better.
They that are against Superstition oftentimes run into it of the wrong side. If I will wear all colours but black, then am I superstitious in not wearing black.
There is a twofold meaning in every creature, a literal and a mystical, and the one is but the ground of the other.
While you're busy looking for the perfect person, you'll probably miss the imperfect person who could make you perfectly happy.
Accursed is that peace of which revolt from God is the bond, and blessed are those contentions by which it is necessary to maintain the kingdom of Christ.
Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
Involvement in public life provides the opportunity to shape our manners in accordance with civil justice.
I won't make shorthand films, because I don't want to manipulate audiences into assuming quick, manufactured truths.
No soldier can fight unless he is properly fed on beef and beer.
The most creative people have learned to tolerate the slight discomfort of indecision for much longer and so, just because they put in more pondering time, their solutions are more creative.
I know a man who, when he saw a woman of striking beauty, praised the Creator for her. The sight of her lit within him the love of God.
Democracy, I do not conceive that ever God did ordain as a fit government either for church or commonwealth. If the people be governors, who shall be governed?
The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.
