John Quotes

God has made us to be conduits of his grace. The danger is in thinking the conduit should be lined with gold. It shouldn't. Copper will do.

Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

The world loves talent but pays off on character.

there is no shortage of fault to be found amid our stars

We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.

You would rather face a life without me than to have me choose a life I would not choose for myself.

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.

As a child I was an inveterate liar. As opposed to now, I am a Novelist.

You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.

When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

Some people wake up drowsy. Some people wake up energized. I wake up dead.

Is it faith to understand nothing, and merely submit your convictions implicitly to the Church?

All men are born free: just not for long.

Skepticism can keep us from blessing, can keep us trapped in two minds.

He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.

And so this is Christmas...what have you done?

And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.

Dying is the last thing I will ever do.

Every moment has infinite potential. Every new moment contains for you possibilities that you can't possibly imagine. Every day is a blank page that you could fill with the most beautiful drawings.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free.

A man must make of his life a ladder that he never ceases to climb -- if you're not rising, you are slipping down the rungs, my friend.

To lead a successful life, then, it's a good idea to work out what you really want. Then get together some plans. Then set some goals.

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

Good things never last, bad things never die.

The beauty of the animal form is in exact proportion to the amount of moral and intellectual virtue expressed by it.

Better is half a loaf than no bread.

The big-business mergers and the big-labour mergers have the appearance of dinosaurs mating.

A cat may look at a king.

Come and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe.

Schoolmasters and parents exist to be grown out of.

An error is simply a failure to adjust immediately from a preconception to an actuality.

Faith is the proper name of religious experience.

I know well that happiness is in little things.

People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.

Every chain that spirits wear crumbles in the breadth of prayer.

Our greatest illusion is reliance upon the security and permanence of material possessions. We must search for some other coin.

They also serve who only stand and wait.

He has the gift of quiet.

Time was made for slaves.

Boys are the cash of war. Whoever said: we're not free spenders- doesn't know our like.

The brazen throat of war.

Worry is the only insupportable misfortune of life.

The most essential thing for us was to get the business model right, then put the world-class technology under it to support it. At Merrill, that meant not doing what people expected.

There are too many games being developed by people that have no business creating games.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Humor is richly rewarding to the person who employs it. It has some value in gaining and holding attention, but it has no persuasive value at all.