John Quotes

I'd had the quintessential liberal arts experience, and I came out of college not having a clue of what to do.

But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced the necessity of education and tutors.

Prayer continues in the desire of the heart, though the understanding be employed on outward things.

No circumstances can make it necessary for a man to burst in sunder all the ties of humanity.

Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.

God would first, by this inspiration of his Spirit, have wrought in our hearts that holy love without which none can enter into glory.

And now run the race which is set before thee, in the royal way of universal love.

A constant attention to the work which God entrusts us with is a mark of solid piety.

I feel that the Air Force has not been giving out all the available information on the Unidentified Flying Objects. You cannot disregard so many unimpeachable sources.

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

Be quick without hurrying.

When you improve a little each day, eventually big things occur.

It is harmful to compare yourself to others. Others will do that for you.

Failing to prepare is preparing to fail.

The most important key to achieving great success is to decide upon your goal and launch, get started, take action, move.

Earn the right to be proud and confident.

Team spirit means you are willing to sacrifice personal considerations for the welfare of all. That defines a team player.

Promise to wear a cheerful appearance at all times and give every person you meet a smile.

Confidence comes from being prepared.

Promise yourself that you will talk health, happiness, and prosperity as often as possible.

A good banker isn't careless with pennies; a good leader isn't sloppy about details.

Ability is a poor man's wealth.

Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then.

Over-coaching can be more harmful than under-coaching. Keep it simple!

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

It is our fall from a simplicity and fullness of life directly experienced, from the sensuous moment of knowing, which leaves a gap that the symbolic can never bridge.

I do what I do and hope that it might connect with people who are thinking along the same lines.

I feel like there are messages. I feel like there are angels. I feel that there is a legacy and an energy. And I feel that it's possible to tap into that.

The greater the feeling of responsibility for the person the more true love there is.

Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God.

We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly.

Everybody that is just is called to form part of the Kingdom of Heaven-whether they be Buddhas, Jews, or Atheists-as long as they are good.

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops.

We must understand that in order 'to do', we must first learn 'to be', that is to say, in the sweet company of Jesus in adoration.

The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ.

Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.

Give us the grace - When the sacredness of life before birth is attacked, to stand up and proclaim that no one ever has the authority to destroy unborn life.

Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity.

The ecological crisis is a moral issue.

The most generous choices, especially the persevering, are the fruit of profound and prolonged union with God in prayerful silence.

All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture.

Euthanasia and assisted suicide are never acceptable acts of mercy. They always gravely exploit the suffering and desperate, extinguishing life in the name of the 'quality of life' itself.

Where dance is, there is the devil.

The poet is the one who breaks through our habits.

Western people often see obscenity where there is only symbolism.

Everything good in there, T? Niko quipped. You need backup or anything? Bag of marshmallows to roast over that little campfire you just started?

If you work hard everyday and bust your tail on every play, eventually people will notice and word will get around.

I believe half of the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.