John Quotes

Heart power is better than horsepower.

Pure mathematics, may it never be of any use to anyone.

Half the wrong conclusions at which mankind arrive are reached by the abuse of metaphors, and by mistaking general resemblance or imaginary similarity for real identity.

We are the hands, feet and mouthpiece of Christ. We are His ambassadors on Earth, called to stop injustice and restore His people.

If we judge others, it is because we are judging something in ourselves of which we are unaware.

Ambition is one of the ungovernable passions of the human heart. The love of power is insatiable and uncontrollable.

The Constitution is ...the greatest single effort of national deliberation that the world has ever seen

Human passions unbridled by morality and religion...would break the stronges cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net.

[I]t is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue.

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen.

The love of books is a love which requires neither justification, apology, nor defense.

I think, therefore I laugh.

Evolution is baseless and quite incredible.

The only way to build a peaceful community is to build men and women who are lovers and makers of peace.

Unjust force can never give any just dominion.

Mathematical studies may serve for a pleasant entertainment for those hours which young men are apt to throw away upon their vices.

Bill Frindall has done a bit of mental arithmetic with a calculator

All beauty, resonance, integrity, Exist by deprivation or logic Of strange position.

You can choose right now to change the way you are experiencing a windstorm. Adjust your sails.

Success tastes that much sweeter when you have people to share it with.

Relationships are like apples: they can be sweet and satisfying. But once you bite into a bad one, it's hard to go back to the barrel again.

​Live the truth and everything else will fall into place.

Would I lay down my life to save my brother? No, but I would to save two brothers or eight cousins.

The Creator, if He exists, has a special preference for beetles.

Speak Thou in my words today, think in my thoughts, and work in all my deeds.

The idea of vaudeville clowns and court jesters is always to show the flaw, to point out what's not working and why it's not coherent.

The words a leader speaks are important, of course. But how they're delivered can make all the difference, especially in tough times.

Everything we do is tinged with the knowledge that this may be the last time that we will do this, and that makes what we're doing incredibly sweet.

Christ. Seven years of college down the drain.

The eagle may soar, but the weasel never gets sucked into a jet engine.

If someone is being very cheeky, it can be quite fun to deal with that situation.

It can happen that a book, unlike its authors, grows younger as the years pass.

I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.

All poetry and music, and art of every true sort, bears witness to man's continual falling in love with beauty and his desperate attempt to induce beauty to live with him and enrich his common life.

But, you know, I'm presiding over an institution that was designed not to work.

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes.

Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.

All these feelings need to be felt. We need to stomp and storm; to sob and cry; to perspire and tremble.

Most people who have survived abuse have great strength.

The angel of death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings.

Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.

If the regulars are to be put together, I believe they would prefer me to the other Cavalry Commanders.

Shortly after this, I placed my command on our extreme left, to watch and fight the enemy should he make another attack, and went to Cemetary Hill for observation.

He hath given me rest by His sorrow, and life by His death.

A tender heart is a wakeful, watchful heart. It watches against sin in the soul, sin in the family, sin in the calling, sin in spiritual duties and performances.

I love to hear my Lord spoken of, and wherever I have seen the print of His shoe in the earth, there have I coveted to put mine also.

I have given Him my faith, and sworn my allegiance to Him; how, then, can I go back from this, and not be hanged as a traitor?

Sleep is sweet to the labouring man.

Without the Spirit man is so infirm that he cannot, with all other means whatsoever, be enabled to think one right saving thought of God, of Christ, or of his blessed things.

To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.