John Quotes

Rich, poor, Panhandle, Gulf, city, country, Texas is the obsession, the proper study, and the passionate possession of all Texans.

There is no term comparable to green thumbs to apply to such a mechanic, but there should be. For there are men who can look, listen, tap, make an adjustment, and a machine works.

A wife is like a children's movie; always under-appreciated and without either, life would be incomplete.

I have said that Texas is a state of mind, but I think it is more than that. It is a mystique closely approximating a religion.

A Texan outside of Texas is a foreigner.

Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world

If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.

No one who is young is ever going to be old.

To a monster the norm must seem monstrous, since everyone is normal to himself.

A man without earnestness is a mournful and perplexing spectacle. But it is a consolation to believe, as we must of such a one, that he is the most effectual and compulsive of all schools.

Man is a substance clad in shadows.

Repentance clothes in grass and flowers the grave in which the past is laid.

Of all the tyrants the world affords, our own affections are the fiercest lords.

Patrick Henry didn't say, "Give me safety, or give me death."

All our rights are gradually eroded as government gets bigger.

Give me a break - They say taxes are inevitable, like death. At least death doesn't come every year.

I never wanted to be an anchor for 25 years, and suddenly I wanted to be one.

God has clothed His thoughts in words, and there is no way to know Him except by knowing the Scriptures.

As a body without breath is a corpse, so the church without the Spirit is dead.

Leaders have power, but power is safe only in the hands of those who humble themselves to serve.

Moved by the perfection of His holy love, God in Christ substituted Himself for us sinners. That is the heart of the cross of Christ.

I believe that to preach or to expound the scripture is to open up the inspired text with such faithfulness and sensitivity that God’s voice is heard and His people obey Him

When the Christian loses himself, he finds himself, he discovers his true identity.

Perhaps the transformation of the disciples of Jesus is the greatest evidence of all for the resurrection.

Good works are indispensable to salvation - not as its ground or means, however, but as its consequence and evidence.

If we love our neighbor we shall without doubt tell him the good news of Jesus. But equally if we truly love our neighbor we shall not stop there.

God condemned sin in Christ, so that holiness might appear in us.

Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents.

God intends... our care of Creation to reflect our love for the Creator.

The good news is the gospel of God, about Christ, according to Scripture, for the nations, unto the obedience of faith, and for the sake of the Name.

A deaf church is a dead church: that is an unalterable principle.

The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable.

All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God.

The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water

Tyranny is usually tempered with assassination, and Democracy must be tempered with culture. In the absence of this, it turns into a representation of collective folly.

So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov't.

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

The struggle between Liberty and Authority is the most conspicuous feature in the portions of history with which we are earliest familiar; particularly in that of Greece, Rome, and England

A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

Language is the light of the mind

With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?

It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor.

Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.

Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.

A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another, and as the mould in which it casts them is that which pleases the dominant power in the government.

In this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.