John Quotes

Christ by his death destroying the works of the devil, procuring the Spirit for us, hath so killed sin, as to its reign in believers, that it shall not obtain its end and dominion.

The choicest believers, who are assuredly freed from the condemning power of sin, ought yet to make it their business all their days to mortify the indwelling power of sin.

This day was yesterday to-morrow nam'd: To-morrow shall be yesterday proclaimed: To-morrow not yet come, not far away, What shall to-morrow then be call'd? To-day.

Never underestimate the power of a good story.

Motivation is not a thinking word; it's a feeling word.

The obvious priority is to get your intonation together. Your sound and your pitch should be inspiring to people, not a distraction.

There are people who...tell you that the light in your heart is a weakness. Don't believe it! It's an old tactic of cruel people to kill kindness in the name of virtue.

Change, create, inspire. Dreams really do work.

I don't use e-mail or a computer. I would be so inundated that I wouldn't be able to get any work done. Instead, I do everything in person or on the phone.

Nothing exciting ever happens to me.

The squeaky wheel doesn't always get greased; it often gets replaced.

I have a lot of guitars. Yeah, I'm not like a guitar collector, I don't have all vintage instruments. I don't even own a Strat or Les Paul. I don't have one.

It's thrilling. There's birth and death and frustration and victory in raising horses. It's like a little microcosm of life is built into the short lives of these creatures.

Responsibility to self simply means to acknowledge inner truth-our imperfections and our power, our beauty.

Marriage. The roots are deep. The covenant is solid. The love is sweet. Life is hard. And God is good.

Servanthood does not nullify leadership; it defines it. Jesus does not cease to be the Lion of Judah when He becomes the lamblike servant of the church.

Anger devours almost all other good emotions. It deadens the soul. It numbs the heart to joy and gratitude and hope and tenderness and compassion and kindness.

Don’t be surprised. There is nothing new under the sun. Only endless repackagings

The greatest act of freeing happened when Jesus died in our place and paid our debt.

Prayer as a relationship is probably your best indicator about the health of your love relationship with God. If your prayer life has been slack, your love relationship has grown cold.

Where passion for God is weak, zeal for missions will be weak.

To love God passionately is to love truth passionately.

Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God's appointed remedy for despair.

Lavish giving and open homes are close to the center of life in Christ.

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

Death is like my car. It takes me where I want to go.

Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christlike, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.

The store of wisdom does not consist of hard coins which keep their shape as they pass from hand to hand; it consists of ideas and doctrines whose meanings change with the minds that entertain them.

I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do something else.

Every temptation is an opportunity of our getting nearer to God.

May our country be always successful, but whether successful or otherwise, always right.

The Bible carries with it the history of the creation, the fall and redemption of man, and discloses to him, in the infant born at Bethlehem, the Legislator and Savior of the world.

Democracy is the only system capable of reflecting the humanist premise of equilibrium or balance. The key to its secret is the involvement of the citizen.

That most delicious of all privileges - spending other people's money.

The strength of the claims of formal justice, of obedience to system, clearly depend upon the substantive justice of institutions and the possibilities of their reform.

The wind in a man's face makes him wise.

Manners make often fortunes.

The Conservative Party is a tax cutting party or it is nothing.

By the time the civil service has finished drafting a document to give effect to the principle, there may be little of the principle left.

Jesus cursed a living tree and it died; Mohammed blessed a dead tree and it lived.

More people have been killed by totalitarian regimes, during times of peace, than in all the wars in the world combined.

I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.

The media loves nothing more than when there is a racial scandal or something. Racism, bigotry, these are just such hot button issues, and the media loves it.

Trust God where you cannot see Him. Do not try to penetrate the cloud He brings over you; rather look to the bow that is on it. The mystery is God's; the promise is yours.

So far as I have myself observed, the distinctive character of a child is to live always in the tangible present.

Every noble life leaves the fibre of it interwoven forever in the work of the world.

The measure of any great civilization is its cities and a measure of a city's greatness is to be found in the quality of its public spaces, its parks and squares.

Obey something, and you will have a chance to learn what is best to obey. But if you begin by obeying nothing, you will end by obeying the devil and all his invited friends.

I fear uniformity. You cannot manufacture great men any more than you can manufacture gold.

It is a strange thing how little in general people know about the sky. It is the part of creation in which nature has done more for the sake of pleasing man.