John Quotes
When entrepreneurs are free to compete, they grow the pie so that everyone's share gets larger.
Do not be content with a static Christian life. Determine rather to grow in faith and love, in knowledge and holiness.
There is evidence for the deity of Jesus -- good, strong, historical , cumulative evidence; evidence to which an honest person can subscribe without committing intellectual suicide.
There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.
But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal Impulses and preferences.
The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.
To say that secular means irreligious implies that all the arts and sciences are irreligious, and is very like saying that all professions except that of the law are illegal.
It is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.
In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth usually sets while another rises.
It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.
The great creative individual . . . is capable of more wisdom and virtue than collective man ever can be.
Our sins, like to our shadows, when our day was in its glory, scarce appeared; toward our evening, how great and monstrous!
Obviously the first sentiment is disappointment that we didn't get the car home and more disappointment that at the time that it stopped the car was in the lead.
It's bad form to mention money-laundering. Instead, you talk about asset-management structures and tax beneficial schemes.
The photographer’s vision convinces us to the degree that the photographer hides his hand.
Schools stifle family originality by appropriating the critical time needed for any sound idea of family to develop - then they blame the family for its failure to be a family.
It is only by understanding the emotion of others that an investor has a chance to produce superior results.
It is impossible to produce superior performance unless you do something very different.
Faith does not imply a closed, but an open mind. Quite the opposite of blindness, faith appreciates the vast spiritual realities that materialists overlook by getting trapped in the purely physical.
As we learn to share and give and care, love increases. A person who knows how to love does not seem to feel lonely or alone. In this sense, the power of love can become a true weapon against harm.
Living life with a smile is like throwing yeast into a bowl of flour, adding warm water and waiting for the flour to rise. It multiplies may times over.
The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British Army
Award trophies, as opposed to letting the players define and claim their own. Ultimately, pay them to play so that their activity not only resembles work but is work.
If people would but provide for eternity with the same solicitude and real care as they do for this life, they could not fail of heaven.
Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed.
Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.
Life is overwhelming. Life is not easy. Life is tough and you need something that really works and helps you actually, not promises to help you, then fail.
You have a freedom in playing the villain. You can be a lot more out there, really. And there is a joy in that. There is a joy in kind of making a zone of psychoses.
Too often, our minds are locked on one track. We are looking for red - so we overlook blue. Many Nobel Prizes have been washed down the drain because someone did not expect the unexpected.
