John Quotes

The music comes first. It will always be first

And all that is therein; Invisible and visible, Their notes let all things blend, For Christ the Lord is risen. Our joy that hath no end.

The measure of your holiness is proportionate to the goodness of your will.

The virtuous soul that is alone and without a master is like a long lone burning coal; it will grow colder rather than hotter.

There are some people who watch NASCAR for the highly skilled driving - but most people watch it for the crashes.

Sometimes it's good to remember how bad food can be, so you can enjoy the concept of flavour to the fullest.

Make your life about something bigger than your life.

The main measure of your devotion to God is not your devotional life. It is simply your life.

The most tremendous judgment of God in this world is the hardening of the hearts of men.

Let no man pretend to fear sin that does not fear temptation also! These two are too closely united to be separated. He does not truly hate the fruit who delights in the root.

There is no true gospel fruit without faith and repentance.

The indulgence of one sin opens the door to further sins. The indulgence of one sin diverts the soul from the use of those means by which all other sins should be resisted.

There wanted not some beams of light to guide men in the exercise of their Stocastick faculty.

The heart of change is in the emotions.

You understand why some animals eat their young.

Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.

I know I am dying, but my deathbed is a bed of roses. I have no thorns planted upon my dying pillow. Heaven is already begun!

Hope does not always require probability.

I don't have very eclectic tastes in music.

My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night.

I don't do ups, ups defy gravity. Gravity is a law. I obey the law

Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises

Every criticism or slight against you, warranted or not, received or endured humbly, is written in heaven for your reward.

To be a Christian is to move toward need, not comfort.

Blind people don't decide to see. Jesus says, 'See!' and they see.

Success and glory are in the advance, disaster and shame lurk in the rear.

Now Jesus don't like killin'/No matter what the reason's for.

How to obtain freedom has been, and is, mankind's most important quest.

No book in the world deserves to be so unceasingly studied, and so profoundly meditated upon as the Bible.

All that I am my mother made me.

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

If you had half an hour of exercise this morning, you're in the right frame of mind to sit still and focus on this paragraph, and your brain is far more equipped to remember it.

The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him.

Flowers seem intended for the solace of ordinary humanity.

Compulsory education... It is a painful, continual, and difficult work; to be done by kindness, by watching, by warning, by precept, and by praise, — but above all — by example.

If Life hands you a lemon, throw it at someone

Whatever is referred to must exist. Let us call this the axiom of existence.

I think we have to recover our spiritual nature. The way we have interpreted Christianity does not do that.

Survival is not possible if the best of us lack all conviction, while the worst of us are full of passionate intensity.

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.

People are more what they hide than what they show.

Tonight the American flag floats from yonder hill or Molly Stark sleeps a widow.

I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

One can find so many pains when the rain is falling.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

The most important thing in the world is family and love.

In the end, people are persuaded not by what we say, but by what they understand.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.