John Quotes
I would like to be remembered, well... the Mexicans have a phrase, 'Feo fuerte y formal'. Which means; he was ugly, strong and had dignity.
The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.
The warm and radiant yes of the heart is perfect, like the sun, in bringing all things to life and nourishing all that is truly human.
I am never in a hurry, because I never undertake more work than I can go through with perfect calmness of spirit.
with all prayer (Eph. 6:18)" All sorts of prayer- public, private, mental, vocal. Do not be diligent in one kind of prayer and negligent in others... let us use all.
Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves. The Difference lies, as far as I can see, Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.
God bless our good and gracious King, Whose promise none relies on; Who never said a foolish thing, Nor ever did a wise one.
Understand there is a price to be paid for achieving anything of significance. You must be willing to pay the price.
"The people" aren't running anything. That's why technology has replaced politics as the source of ideology. The ideological claims are hollow and absurd, and nobody believes them anymore.
War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future.
People are made for happiness. Rightly, then, you thirst for happiness. Christ has the answer to this desire of yours. But he asks you to trust him.
This is the wonderful truth, my dear friends: the Word, which became flesh two thousand years ago, is present today in the Eucharist
From this moment on, live the Eucharist fully; be persons for whom the Holy Mass, Communion, and Eucharistic adoration are the center and summit of their whole life.
Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.
The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace.
The social progress, order, security and peace of each country are necessarily connected with the social progress, order, security and peace of all other countries.
It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with renewed and friendly attention.
Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.
The law of the Conservation of Energy is already known — viz., that the sum of all the energies of the universe, actual and potential, is unchangeable.
Learning to read is probably the most difficult and revolutionary thing that happens to the human brain and if you don't believe that, watch an illiterate adult try to do it.
One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.
If you do the things you need to do when you need to do them, then someday you can do the things you want do when you want to do them.
Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.
For to speak the truth, there are but few that care thus to spend their time, but choose rather to be speaking of things to no profit.
We talked for hours. He talked and I listened. It was like wind and sunlight. It blew all the cobwebs away.
The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases.
I urge you to examine in your own mind the assumptions which must lay behind using the police power to insist that once-sovereign spirits have no choice but to submit to being schooled by strangers.
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of political life.
The truth is that there are such things as Christian tears, and too few of us ever weep them.
Peeing is like a good book in that it is very, very hard to stop once you start.
A study of the history of opinion is a necessary preliminary to the emancipation of the mind.
Another glorious day, the air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.