John Quotes

By affliction prayer is quickened, for our prayers are very apt to grow languid and formal in a time of ease.

Human beings, we have dark sides; we have dark issues in our lives. To progress anywhere in life, you have to face your demons.

Jihad is holy struggle, a legitimate tenet of Islam meaning to purify oneself or one's community.

Is real, it is serious, it is growing, and it constitutes one of the greatest threats to our national security and, indeed, to global security.

Kissing's no fun when you have herpes

Perfection cannot be reached, because nothings perfect. But things can change, and so can people

Becoming the reader is the essence of becoming a writer.

Never play cards with a man named Doc, and never eat at a place called Mom's.

In every marriage the wife has to keep her mouth shut about at least one small thing her husband does that disgusts her.

But whats the use of being old if you cant be dumb?

Illinois is a state of suspended animation and the people live in hibernation from Oct. to whenever it ever gets warmer.

When we leap, we must leap as though the net will appear. A leap in life, however big or small, is an act of commitment with the expectation of success.

The common people say, that physicians are the class of people who kill other men in the most polite and courteous manner.

The window of the soul cleansed perfectly and made completely transparent by the divine light

Florida, just because you're shaped like some combination of a gun and a d*ck doesn't mean you have to act that way.

As a general rule, no one should ever be allowed to say there is no history of racial tension here, because that sentence has never been true anywhere on Earth.

We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

I would hate to meet myself at 15.

If you’ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to f*** up this city’s traffic.

People, I guess, generally come to see me do stand-up with a working knowledge of my broad sense of humor on The Daily Show ... I don't think anyone would mistake me as an actual anchor.

The important thing about Paris is not so much that one sees exciting work, but one meets people who feel that art is worth living completely for. This whole atmosphere is very good for work.

What matters is not the accomplishments you achieve; what matters is the person you become.

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

The goal is not for us to get through the Scriptures. The goal is to get the Scriptures through us.

The Bible does not say you are God’s appliance; it says you are his masterpiece. Appliances get mass-produced.

Willpower is trying very hard not to do something you want to do very much.

God is not interested in our spiritual life. He's interested in our life.

Joylessness may be the sin most readily tolerated by the church.

Solitude is the one place where we can gain freedom from the forces of society that will otherwise relentlessly mold us. Solitude requires relentless perseverance.

Over time, grit is what separates fruitful lives from aimlessness.

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

All things I thought I knew; but now confess The more I know, I know, I know the less.

God never intended for us to be left to pray on our own. God never changes His purpose, but He often does purpose a change.

Christ is our best friend, and ere long will be our only friend. I pray God with all my heart that I may be weary of everything else but converse and communion with Him.

A man may easier see without eyes, speak without a tongue, than truly mortify one sin without the Spirit.

The root of an unmortified course is the digestion of sin without bitterness in the heart.

You have your season, and you have but your season; neither can you lie down in peace, until you have some persuasion that your work as well as your life is at an end.

A natural man hath no such thing as free-will at all, if you take it for a power of doing that which is good and well-pleasing unto God in things spiritual.

The vigour, and power, and comfort of our spiritual life depends on the mortification of the deeds of the flesh.

Tradition is a very powerful force.

We keep a change in place by helping to create a new, supportive, and sufficiently strong organizational culture.

Analytical tools have their limitations in a turbulent world. These tools work best when parameters are known, assumptions are minimal, and the future is not fuzzy.

Managers are trained to make incremental, programmatic improvements. They aren't trained to lead large-scale change.

Where the terror is, you must go.

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.

...without a Respectable Navy, Alas America!

A democracy cannot function effectively when its constituent members believe laws are being bought and sold.

Although it may not be a castle, [it is the] functional equivalent of a hotel room, a vacation and retirement home or a hunting and fishing cabin.

Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned

The level of discourse reaching a mailbox simply cannot be limited to that which would be suitable for a sandbox.