John Quotes

We admit no faith to be justifying, which is not itself and in its own nature a spiritually vital principle of obedience and good works.

Not to be daily mortifying sin, is to sin against the goodness, kindness, wisdom, grace, and love of God, who hath furnished us with a principle of doing it.

Without a sincere and diligent effort in every area of obedience, there will be no sucessful mortification of any one besetting sin.

In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study

If you don't kick things around with people, you are out of it. Nobody, I always say, can be anybody without somebody being around.

China is the most repressive censorship regime on the Internet.

I use all different kinds of techniques for all different types of music. The music dictates the style.

In life, we choose whether or not we want to be a winner or a loser.

Monogamy is like a 40-watt bulb. It works, but its not enough.

I have doubts! I have such doubts!

We see the world through our experience.

Color is a powerful physical, biological, and psychological force.

When you start with next to nothing, all you've got is a lot of thought, a lot of innovation, figuring new ways to do things without using a lot of money.

You'd be safe to hold 5% of your assets and savings in gold and silver. Insurance for the future.

You ought to be able to make a nice profit and also do something to change the world.

Management philosophy: Pay attention to the vital fiew and ignore the trivial many. I could go insane if I obsessed over every little details of all my companies.

Vidal Sassoon was the most famous hairstylist in the history of the world.

To show a well-founded fear of persecution, an alien need not prove that it is more likely than not that he or she will be persecuted in his or her home country.

Requiring that an execution be relatively painless...actually undermines the very premise on which public approval of the retribution rationale is based.

All songs are about shagging, you can't deny it

I think a lot of the stuff I'm playing now is crap.

The Rule of Accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer.

The choices we make within the boundaries of the twists of fate determines who we are

Hope provides comfort, and hope does not always require probability.

Plan your day with an eye to your tendency to procrastinate, and put in safeguards to keep it to a minimum.

I support freedom of expression, no matter whose, so I oppose DDoS attacks regardless of their target... they're the poison gas of cyberspace.

I'm still strongly opposed to antismoking laws, strongly opposed to any law that regulates personal behavior.

I don't know that I believe in the supernatural, but I do believe in miracles, and our time together was filled with the events of magical unlikelihood.

But generally speaking, I felt to engage in the political process was to sully oneself to such a degree that whatever came out wasn't worth the trouble put in.

I've always said that there's a huge progressive rock, progressive metal audience out there, in the world.

You can't drive a Spike with a Tack Hammer

To the average mind popular music would mean compositions vulgarly conceived and commonplace in their treatment. That is absolutely false.

My religion lies in my composition.

Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.

No nation as young as America can be expected to become immediately a power in the arts.

We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

To brand man with infamy, and let him free, is an absurdity that peoples our forests with assassins.

Energy and consciousness are in a continual state of interaction: energy is shaped and directed by consciousness which is itself driven by energy.

Eros is a unique experience but it is not love itself. It bridges the gap between sexuality and love; it spans the chasm between two people.

We have an extreme rightwing government in this country, although it's called the Labour government.

I grew up in Sydney in a very political household, where we were all for the underdog.

Wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians. And wimpy Christians won’t survive the days ahead.

Doing things in secret that you are ashamed for others to know is practical atheism. God's knowing doesn't count?

Christianity is fundamentally convalescence.. .God is not only the doctor who prescribes, He is the nurse who lifts up our powerless head and puts the spoon in our mouth...And He is the medicine.

The gospel is not a way to get people to heaven; it is a way to get people to God.

What could be a greater privilege than to listen to the voice of God, and be granted by God himself the ears to hear?

Loving God with all our mind means that our thinking is wholly engaged to do all it can to awaken and express the heartfelt fullness of treasuring God above all things.

Evangelicals are distraught over the state of America because they have not been taught that we're aliens here.

Boasting is the outward form of the inner condition of pride.

The Gospel is not a picture of adoption, adoption is a picture of the Gospel.