John Quotes
When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.
It is evident that man never attains to a true self-knowledge until he has previously contemplated the face of God, and come down after such contemplation to look into himself.
We all question our sanity. Everyone has had an experience of loss of control of something.
I think everybody you know, we all have a sense of humor and I'm not one to take myself too seriously.
Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression.
Even in the world of molecules the civilising influence of modest restraints is a cause for rejoicing.
Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps in this case save the world.
Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old.
There's nothing good on the television; let's burn a witch. It must have been terribly exciting to live in those times.
We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.
To be creative you must create a space for yourself where you can be undisturbed... separate from everyday concerns.
When I was in school, I was beaten every 30 minutes. It never did me any harm except for some psychological mal-adjustments and blurred vision.
Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.
It is not the self -critical who reveals his humility ( for does not everyone have some how to put up with himself? ). Rather, it is the man who continues to love the person who has criticized him.
Any time you play your horn, it helps you. If you get down, you can help yourself even in a rock 'n' roll band.
Mentoring is a brain to pick, an ear to listen, and a push in the right direction.
I think it is a man's duty to make all the money he can, keep all that he can and give away all that he can.
Whether I'm shooting 10-under or 10-over I have to realize people have come a long way to see me play. I can't be back-handing putts.
While sincerity is to carry the weight of knowledge in the self, it is also to be the lightness of being clean.
On the road of experience, join in the living day; if there's an answer, it's just that it is that way.
I am a homophobe, though a mild and tolerant one, and a racist, though an even more mild and tolerant one, and those things are going to be illegal pretty soon, the way we are going.
But if capitalism had built up science as a productive force, the very character of the new mode of production was serving to make capitalism itself unnecessary.
To create the power of competence without creating a corresponding direction to guide the use of that power is bad education.
Better to hunt in fields, for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught, The wise, for cure, on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend.
The meaning of our lives is revealed through experiences that at first seem at odds with each other--moments we wish would never end and moments we wish had never begun.
Confidence is not a guarantee of success, but a pattern of thinking that will improve your likelihood of success, a tenacious search for ways to make things work.
The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it.
American history is not something dead and over. It is always alive,always growing, always unfinished.