John Quotes

Pride deafens us to the advice or warnings of those around us.

Your life begins to change when you change something you do every day.

The difference between average people and achieving people is their perception of and response to...failure.

There is something about the water - that solitary kind of peaceful feeling. You're on earth but not quite.

All truth is God's truth.

Man is never sufficiently touched and affected by the awareness of his lowly state until he has compared himself with God's majesty.

They who prematurely put themselves forward to root out whatever is displeasing to them overthrow the judgment of God and rashly intrude upon the office of angels.

If we believe heaven to be our country, it is better for us to transmit our wealth thither, than to retain it here, where we may lose it by a sudden removal.

We unjustly defraud God of his right, unless each of us lives and dies in dependence on His sovereign pleasure.

The speed of light sucks.

Movies are pieces of film stuck together in a certain rhythm, an absolute beat, like a musical composition. The rhythm you create affects the audience.

Winning the Royal Rumble is as big an accomplishment as anything.

I'm more interested in seeing what the material tells me than in imposing my will on it.

Fermentation and civilization are inseparable.

I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.

I'm into scales right now.

Turner has outdone himself; he seems to paint with tinted steam, so evanescent and so airy.

Friendships, like marriages, are dependent on avoiding the unforgivable.

I believe the power to make money is a gift of God.

God gave me my money.

You know, my children go to a local, local catholic school just down the road.

I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are. Not many of them feel like that.

I get an awful lot of fan mail, and I read all that I can.

Hunger not to have, but to be

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we lov'd?

For love all love of other sights controls and makes one little room an everywhere

In the first minute that my soul is infused, the Image of God is imprinted in my soul; so forward is God in my behalf, and so early does he visit me.

He trudged along unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought.

And that the Scriptures, though not everywhere Free from corruption, or entire, or clear, Are uncorrupt, sufficient, clear, entire In all things which our needful faith require.

And write whatever Time shall bring to pass With pens of adamant on plates of brass.

Ye moon and stars, bear witness to the truth.

Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.

Try a hard problem. You may not solve it, but you will prove something else.

Well, I think we ought to let him hang there. Let him twist slowly, slowly in the wind.

If a man is ever to find out who he is and what he is here for, he has got to take that journey for himself. He has got to get his heart back.

Being thrown into the fire and getting the thing turned around in a hurry made it more difficult. Things have been done the hard way. I think you learn better when things are done the hard way.

I'm getting the basics with the AFL, but the NFL is a different animal

The Netherlands are wet, flat and full of stoned people.

I am writing a book and that takes third place of importance.

The US Airforce assures me that UFO's pose no threat to National Security.

A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

If you look throughout human history ... the central epiphany of every religious tradition always occurs in the wilderness.

Arturo Bandini: -What does happiness mean to you Camilla? Camilla: -That you can fall in love with whoever you want to, and not feel ashamed of it.

You can pray for whatever you want, but it is always best to pray for others, not for yourself.

It's surprising how often history is decided by something as trival as bad shellfish.

Grace makes the promise and providence the payment.

Let all Arminians know: we have as high an esteem for faith as any men in the world, but yet we will not rob Christ to clothe faith.

I never saw my grandfather because he had died before I was born, but I have good memories of my grandmother and of how she could play the piano at the old house.

Revenge proves itself to be its own executioner.