John Quotes

You looked at Stanford or Harvard, or the University of Colorado, these were powerful engines just turning out people ready to create and grow businesses.

Did Christ finish His work for us? Then there can be no doubt but He will also finish His work in us.

Just because I'm 77 doesn't mean I don't have a dream.

Cell phones have changed us from a nation of self-reliant pioneer types into a bunch of men standing alone in supermarkets saying, ‘Okay, I’m in the tampon aisle, but I don’t see it.'

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

Between a balanced republic and a democracy, the difference is like that between order and chaos.

In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.

Admit when you're wrong. Shut up when you're right.

you can always tell employees of the government by the total vacancy which occupies the space where most other people have faces.

Comfort is everything. You start doing something and you want it to be perfect right away, but most babies are born ugly and then they shake it out and you get beautiful toddlers.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

If the Word does not dwell with power in us, it will not pass with power from us.

The church is like a swimming pool. Most of the noise comes from the shallow end.

It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit.

Let no one mourn that he has fallen again and again; for forgiveness has risen from the grave.

Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

I'll fight it. I'll fight it for you. Don't you worry about me, Hazel Grace. I'm okay. I'll find a way to hang around and annoy you for a long time.

Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

So think long and hard about who you're spending the most time with, for wherever they are headed, so are you.

I owe it all to little chocolate donuts.

As we interact with God, we'll find ourselves more satisfied in Him and less satisfied with things much less important.

The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.

One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.

Remember: Christ is calling you; the Church needs you; the Pope believes in you and he expects great things of you.

All a musician can do is to get closer to the source.

The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master.

Only an educated and informed people will be a free people.

So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

I shall look forward to a pleasant time.

You cannot be serious!

To silence gossip, don't repeat it.

If poetry does not come as naturally as leaves to a tree, then it better not come at all.

The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will.

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea.

Anyone in a large organization who thinks major change is impossible should probably get out.

I'm not John Lennon. I'm John Lennox. Now, 'imagine a world without' Stalin. The New Atheists are often silent about [the wrong done by atheists].

The whole earth is a living icon of the face of God.

In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin.

Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society.

God does not comfort us to make us comfortable, but to make us comforters.

The power to tax is the power to destroy.

His smile is like the silver plate on a coffin.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Not everybody likes or understands a drum solo, so I like to bring in effects and sounds to keep their interest.

Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment.

We've got to unite our country again, because we're stronger when we are united and we are weaker when we are divided.

The scientific nature of the ordinary man is to go out and do the best you can.

When someone tells you, "You've changed," it might simply be because you've stopped living your life their way.