John Quotes

Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.

Maintaining joy in God takes 'work'; that is, it's a fight against every impulse for alien joys and every obstacle in the way to seeing and savoring Christ.

There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

We cannot "psychologize" the grace of God. God's actions are outside and above our human sciences.

God is to us like the sky to a small bird, which cannot see its outer limits and cannot reach its distant horizons, but can only lose itself in the greatness and immensity of the blueness.

There is such seduction in a library of good books that I cannot resist the temptation to luxuriate in reading.

Those who go to Heaven ride on a pass and enter into blessings that they never earned, but all who go to hell pay their own way.

If you were enough like God, some one wouldn't like you.

Salvation is a free gift.

I tell you, Heaven is a real, literal, physical place, a city as material, as physical, as literal as Chicago or London or New York or Tokyo.

When I go to the garage to pick up my clubs, I clean the spider webs off.

The fault of the utilitarian doctrine is that it mistakes impersonality for impartiality.

The honester the man, the worse luck.

They love too much that die for love.

The UK downgrade will come as little surprise to many. It does not appear to be occurring because the UK is cutting its deficit too far and too fast.

I've never really learned how to live and I've discovered too late that life is for living.

Peace through superior firepower.

Every so often a book comes along that has the power to alter the course of history. Project Animal Farm is that potent.

Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.

The Romans had been able to post their laws on boards in public places, confidant that enough literate people existed to read them; far into the Middle Ages, even kings remained illiterate.

Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.

Marketing strategy is a series of integrated actions leading to a sustainable competitive advantage.

I believe that crisis really tends to help develop the characer of an organisation.

The great danger... in believing yourself especially chosen is that it becomes easy to view those who are not your people as God's especially unchosen.

I learned early in life that you get places by having the right enemies.

Every time I look at Atlanta I see what a quarter of a million Confederate soldiers died to prevent.

My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory.

When I was 16 or 17, I remember kissing one of my first girlfriends, Kim Anderson, under a stairwell at Disneyland. I'll never forget that feeling.

If a story is not about the hearer, he will not listen. And here I make a rule—a great and interesting story is about everyone or it will not last.

When a friend of Abigail and John Adams was killed at Bunker Hill, Abigail's response was to write a letter to her husband and include these words, "My bursting heart must find vent at my pen.

Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love.

Don't give up on your dreams, or your dreams will give up on you.

Nature teaches more than she preaches. There are no sermons in stones. It is easier to get a spark out of a stone than a moral.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.

I seldom go into a natural history museum without feeling as if I were attending a funeral.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

If you're not making mistakes, then you're not doing anything. I'm positive that a doer makes mistakes.

You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket.

Just as the soul animates the body, so, in a way, meaning breathes life into a word.

All attempts, then, for mortification of any lust, without an interest in Christ, are vain.

I'd learned that some things are best kept secret.

Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

I was born into Bolívar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.

Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.

The ethos of redemption is realied in self-mastery, by means of temperance, that is, continence of desires.

To love someone is to desire and work toward their becoming the best version of themselves. The one person in all the universe who can do this perfectly for you is God.