John Quotes

And I will place within them as a guide My umpire conscience, whom if they will hear Light after light well used they shall attain, And to the end persisting, safe arrive.

Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose.

Morn, Wak'd by the circling hours, with rosy hand Unbarr'd the gates of light.

My beer has been universally well-liked beyond my most sanguine expectations. Cannot serve half my customers, and they are increasing every day.

The first thing the communists do when they take over a country is to outlaw cockfighting

Prayer alone will overcome the gigantic difficulties which confront the workers in every field.

What wonders lie in every mountain day!

I am well again, I came to life in the cool winds and crystal waters of the mountains.

I am hopelessly and forever a mountaineer.

Anyhow we never know where we must go, nor what guides we are to get - -people,storms, guardian angels, or sheep.

Man and other civilized animals are the only creatures that ever become dirty.

Buy on the cannons and sell on the trumpets.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

The strongest and most dangerous enemy you will ever face is a negative attitude. Learn to recognize when it is trying to invade your body and mind, then simply refuse it entry.

If it were possible for me to alter any part of his plan, I could only spoil it.

Whether men are pleased or not, we will, we must, worship the Lamb that was slain.

A minister full of comforts & free from failings as an angel, though he would be happy, wouldn't be a good or useful preacher

As to myself, if I were not a Calvinist, I think I should have no more hope of success in preaching to men, than to horses or cows.

I go to bed at night worrying that I didn't do enough that day to make sure I protect the American people.

Between a tyrant and a prince there is this single or chief difference, that the latter obeys the law and rules the people by its dictates, accounting himself as but their servant.

Let him who is not come to logic be plagued with continuous and everlasting filth

Not to follow the advice of our confessor is pride and a want of faith.

There are two kinds of hecklers: the destructive and constructive hecklers.

For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it.

No heart can conceive that treasury of mercies which lies in this one privilege, in having liberty and ability to approach unto God at all times, according to his mind and will.

Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.

So great an advantage is given to sin and Satan by your temper and disposition, that without extraordinary watchfulness, care, and diligence, they will prevail against your soul.

Sin is never less quiet than when it seems to be most quiet.

The pretended desires of many to behold the glory of Christ in heaven, who have no view of it by faith while they are here in this world, are nothing but self-deceiving imaginations.

Then are we servants of God, then are we the disciples of Christ, when we do what is commanded us and because it is commanded us.

It is evident that you contend against sin merely because of how it troubles you.

We ought as much to pray for a blessing upon our daily rod as upon our daily bread.

Free will is "corrupted nature's deformed darling, the Pallas or beloved self-conception of darkened minds"

All spiritual acts well-pleasing unto God, as faith, repentance, obedience, are supernatural; flesh and blood revealeth not these things.

He works in us and with us, not against us or without us; so that his assistance is an encouragement to the facilitating of the work, and no occasion of neglect as to the work itself.

Leadership is different from management, but not for the reasons most people think.

A success unshared is a failure.

I would lay down my life for America but I cannot trifle with my Honor.

Investors that do the best, and have done the best, are those that stay and compound at above-average rates over the long term.

All I ever wanted to do was hear music that I like and play it to other people

If the audience are leaving in ambulances, you know you've done a good job

From childhood I was passionately fond of music and wanted to be a musician. I have no recollection of any real desire ever to be anything else.

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations.

If you are sufficient for your task, it's too small.

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others.

Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime.

It is a fight from start to finish to be happy in God.