John Quotes

The engagement of the heart in worship is the coming alive of the feelings and emotions and affections of the heart. Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

Nothing is more vital than prayer in Christian existence, and few things are more vulnerable to neglect.

God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.

If you want to be a conduit for God's grace, you don't have to be lined with gold. Copper will do.

CHRISTIAN LIVING MOVES from what God has freely done for us in Christ to what we should freely do for others.

God made us in His own image so that His image would be shown.

I've always wondered, am I a writer who preaches or a preacher who writes? I don't know. I love them both.

You can't make yourself saved. This is very threatening to people, even Christians, because of what it seems to say about freedom.

All the money needed to send and support an army of self-sacrificing, joy-spreading ambassadors is already in the church.

Too many Christians are fighting graduate school sins with a grammar school knowledge of God.

The American people have the right to know and understand the laws they live under. And they tend to demand answers sooner or later.

I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.

It would be ideal if we could have an uncontrolled flow of information. But we realized you can't do that.

I think it is very difficult today to have a reasoned public discourse on any controversial subject. Certainly, election years present a complicating factor.

I think if I had to do it over again, I'd do it the same way. I would just put more resources into getting the public diplomacy part much stronger than we were able to.

The problem we were struggling with within the closed market was what the incentive would be. You probably wouldn't use dollars. But those are all questions that need to be explored.

I very much enjoyed my career in science. I didn't leave science because I was disillusioned, but felt I'd done my bit for it after about twenty-five years.

I think it's very important to maintain the classical Christian distinction between the Creator and creation.

On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

To tell you my thoughts is to locate myself in a category. To tell you about my feelings is to tell you about me.

The Green Belt is a Labour achievement - and we mean to build on it.

Because of the security reasons for one thing and, second, my wife doesn't like to have her hair blown about. Have you got another silly question?

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.

The declaration that our People are hostile to a government made by themselves, for themselves, and conducted by themselves, is an insult.

Death fixes forever the relation existing between the departed spirit and the survivors upon earth.

The public history of all countries, and all ages, is but a sort of mask, richly colored. The interior working of the machinery must be foul.

The extremes of opulence and of want are more remarkable, and more constantly obvious, in [Great Britain] than in any other place that I ever saw.

Afghanistan is going to be here a long time, and what's critical is that Afghanistan's relationship with its neighbors are, to the maximum extent they can be, constructive and operationally useful.

When I'm alone, I'm in the company of the most interesting dog I know.

He that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.

If you have one volcano in the world, that one volcano puts out more carbon dioxide than everything man puts out.

I have a theory of statistics: if you can double them or halve them and they still work, they are really good statistics.

There is something silly about grown men and women striving to reduce their vision of themselves and of civilization to bean counting.

Even 10 minutes of activity changes your brain.

Calvin: I'm a genius, but I'm a misunderstood genius. Hobbes: What's misunderstood about you? Calvin: Nobody thinks I'm a genius. Corfu? It's just a poor man's Pensacola.

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.

After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.

I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.

Religious faith is an important aspect of American culture and a fact of American political life.

There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.

Ideal legislators do not vote their interests.

He who pays the piper can call the tunes.

Feather by feather the goose is plucked.

Never meet trouble half-way.

Many without punishment, none without sin.

Love thy neighbor, but pull not down thy hedge.

The younger brother hath the more wit.

The holly green, the ivy green The prettiest picture you've ever seen Is Christmas in Killarney With all of the folks at home.