John Quotes
There can be but one will the master in our salvation, but that shall never be the will of man, but of God; therefore man must be saved by grace.
That's the wonderful thing with nerds: they're enthusiasts. Not having a life means you get to love things with a passion and nobody bothers you about it.
Every walk to the woods is a religious rite, every bath in the stream is a saving ordinance. Communion service is at all hours, and the bread and wine are from the heart and marrow of Mother Earth.
The grim irony of investing, then, is that we investors as a group not only don't get what we pay for, we get precisely what we don't pay for. So if we pay for nothing, we get everything.
To reach your potential you must grow. And to grow, you must be highly intentional about it.
Many times we ask people to march outwardly, when we haven't yet spent the needed time inwardly.
We were created for meaningful work, and one of life's greatest pleasures is the satisfaction of a job well done.
If you believe in others and give them a positive reputation to uphold, you can help them to become better than they think they are.
Cooperation is working together agreeably... Collaboration is working together aggressively; and theres a world of difference between those two.
So great and boundless is God's wisdom that he knows right well how to use evil instruments to do good.
The unborn baby, though enclosed in the womb of its mother, is already a human being, and should not be robbed of the life which it has not yet begun to enjoy.
It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.
Remember that the reader's attention is yours for only a single instant. They will not use up their valuable time trying to figure out what you mean.
I sometimes wonder if the inability to find oneself makes one seek oneself in other people, in characters.
Science exists, moreover, only as a journey toward troth. Stifle dissent and you end that journey.
My veins are filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg. However I still get around and am mean to cats.
Crowded places, I shunned them as noises too rude / And flew to the silence of sweet solitude.
The older I get, the more I feel like an exile, that I don't belong here. And I don't. I was made for heaven, and my heart is longing for it.
Jazz is not the popular culture. Jazz is in the same position in our culture as classical music. A very small minority of people really love it.
You have to like everything that you're painting. Maybe on a narrative level it seems harsh... but I like everything in all my paintings. It's as if you need to be less intelligent at that level.
There is nothing in this world that can compare with the Christian fellowship; nothing that can satisfy but Christ.
It is possible to do something, and to do something meticulously and completely with out creating a goal... all nature works this way.
Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.
The aim of education is to enable individuals to continue their education — or that the object and reward of learning is continued capacity for growth.
Vocational training is the training of animals or slaves. It fits them to become cogs in the industrial machine. Free men need liberal education to prepare them to make a good use of their freedom.
If the reason you’re taking on a mission is for the money you’ll make, I believe you’ll fail.
