John Quotes
Write me a creature that thinks as well as a man or better than a man, but not like a man.
Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.
As long as we have unsolved problems, unfulfilled desires, and a mustard seed of faith, we have all we need for a vibrant prayer life.
Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.
I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you'd fondly stray, over the hills and far away.
Everything God does has purpose and intention behind that design. It is a master design, and every little thing has its proper place and function.
The tints of autumn...a mighty flower garden blossoming under the spell of the enchanter, frost.
Who fathoms the Eternal Thought? Who talks of scheme and plan? The Lord is God! He needeth not The poor device of man.
The wise man regulates his conduct by the theories both of religion and science. But he regards these theories not as statements of ultimate fact but as art-forms.
Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.
Evil is a source of moral intelligence in the sense that we need to learn from our shadow, from our dark side, in order to be good.
When I remember my family, I always remember their backs. They were always indignantly leaving places.
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home.
Well, you could take several stories off the buildings of most U.S. government agencies and we'd all probably be better for it too.
In any great organization it is far, far safer to be wrong with the majority than to be right alone.
I love the way the American trade magazines never give anybody a bad review because they're afraid the advertising will be taken out. It's so hysterical.
There are no permanent alliances, only permanent interests.
But I must submit all my Hopes and Fears, to an overruling Providence, in which, unfashionable as the Faith may be, I firmly believe.
This is my religion ... joy and exaltation in my own existence ... so go ahead and snarl ... bite ... howl, you Calvinistic divines and all you who say I am no Christian. I say you are not Christian.
God is an essence that we know nothing of. Until this awful blasphemy is got rid of, there never will be any liberal science in the world.
In order to win, you must be fully charged. To be fully charged, you must have gas in your tank.
Truth is the same thing to the understanding, as Music to the ear, and Beauty to the eye.
Life is not at all what you might think it to be A simple tale where each thing has its history It's much more than its scuffle and anything goes Both evil and good, subject to the same laws.
The simplest way for me to look at the law of attraction is if I think of myself as a magnet, and I know that a magnet will attract to it.
Learn to put your troubles in your pocket, then leave them there when you do your laundry.
Christianity is haunted by the theory of a God with a craving for bloody sacrifices.
