John Quotes

I think buying a home is the best investment that any individual can make

No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.

It's a balance between getting the right string gauge that's thick enough where it sound good, and not rubber bands - but not too thick where your hands start to get real tired.

I almost rely on other people to say, "Hey, you ever hear of this band?" And I'll say, "Oh, I've never heard of that!" And I listened to them and thought, "What the hell?"

I have to say that our fans have been absolutely wonderful all across the world.

I experimented a bunch with Ernie Ball in getting the strings to not flop around too much, but at the same time not to be too thick to where you're playing telephone cables.

Jazz will endure just as long people hear it through their feet instead of their brains.

Any composer who is gloriously conscious that he is a composer must believe that he receives his inspiration from a source higher than himself.

I can almost always write music; at any hour of the twenty-four, if I put pencil to paper, music comes.

I still feel the impulse to give young writers a hearing, and I believe I have played more unpublished compositions than any other band leader in the country.

Composers are the only people who can hear good music above bad sounds.

The average music-lover hears only the production under prevailing conditions.

America can well expect to develop a goodly amount of composers for she has a goodly number of people.

If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair, if you're going to San Francisco, you're gonna meet some gentle people there.

Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.

Love brings you face to face with your self. It's impossible to love another if you cannot love yourself.

Al journalism should be investigative, from football to cookery

The ultimate aim of the gospel is the display of God’s glory.

In all the setbacks of your life as a believer, God is plotting for your joy.

Whatever opposes prayer opposes the whole work of ministry.

Not going to God because your faith is weak is like not going to the doctor because you feel sick.

Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God’s good will toward us in all his gifts.

Oh, how rare are the Christians who speak with a tender heart and have a theological backbone of steel.

You ought to marry someone who’s willing to go anywhere for God. If they’re not, they're out.

I measure Your love for me by the magnitude of the wrath I deserved, and the wonder of Your mercy by putting Christ in my place.

Seeing & savoring Jesus Christ is the most important seeing and savoring you'll ever do.

Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?

The key to praying with power is to become the kind of persons who do not use God for our ends but are utterly devoted to being used for His ends.

The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

God is on the move to rescue people from misery to everlasting happiness, which can only be found in him.

There will be no people in heaven who want to be around their things more than Jesus.

Giving is a way of having what you need.

At the heart of mature masculinity is a sense of benevolent responsibility to lead, provide for, and protect women in ways appropriate to man's differing relationships.

I will not waste my life! I will finish my course and finish it well. I will display the Gospel of the grace of God in all I do. I will run my race to the end.” - Paul

God's global aim in creation and redemption is not only the glory of his name, but also the gladness of the peoples.

The Bible does not oppose or forbid interracial marriages but sees them as a positive good for the glory of Christ.

God has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations.

The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time.

I was wholeheartedly attracted to the conservative atmosphere that permeated the city of Washington.

Those theologians who are beginning to take the doctrine of creation very seriously should pay some attention to science's story.

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

I am delighted to have had students, friends and colleagues in so many nations and to have learned so much of what I know from them. This Nobel Award honours them all.

Down in the south, it's how we find the brownfield sites without taking too much land take to meet the tremendous demand for housing, and that's what I've done.

The firmest security of peace is the preparation during peace of the defenses of war.

The magistrate is the servant not of his own desires, not even of the people, but of his God

I say women exhibit the most exalted virtue when they depart from the domestic circle and enter on the concerns of their country, of humanity, and of their G-d!

I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

Is it not that, in the chain of human events, the birthday of the nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Saviour?

Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled, there will be America's heart, her benedictions and her prayers.