John Quotes
Spiritual leadership is knowing where God wants people to be and taking the initiative to get them there by God's means in reliance on God's power.
We do not choose suffering simply because we are told to, but because the one who tells us to describes it as the path to everlasting joy.
Christ died that we might live. This is the opposite of abortion. Abortion kills that someone might live differently.
Worship is a way of gladly reflecting back to God the radiance of his worth. This cannot be done by mere acts of duty. It can be done only when spontaneous affections arise in the heart.
We ought not speak too long about God with our minds before we turn and speak to God from our heart. We must stir a lot of prayer into the stew of our theology.
The line of lovelessness is not drawn between speaking and doing, but between speaking and doing in the truth, and speaking and doing in emptiness. Truth turns word-love into deed-love.
We need God in ways we do not know. Don't limit your experience of God to what you can think to ask. Ask for the unknown joy.
What was once foolishness to us-a crucified God-must become our wisdom and our power and our only boast in this world.
We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.
The call of God creates sight in us. It's the work of God in our hearts to awaken us before his word.
The goal of Bethlehem College and Seminary cannot be expressed with man as the end point. Christ is the endpoint.
So I think in those circumstances, there's some potential that you could see a big pendulum swing like 1994, which people you thought weren't vulnerable all of the sudden get in trouble.
Realistically, I think we are not prepared to go home until we do get more teachers and lower class sizes.
While negativity is politically useful, it is also demoralizing unless it is accompanied - and to some extent overshadowed - by elevated and inspiring ideas about the American future.
Your race and gender don't change, but you can choose to change your political affiliation at will.
The problem is that borrowing money to pay back more borrowed money that will oblige you in the future to borrow even more money doesn't sound kosher. Because it isn't.
Insulting the electorate and accusing it of spiritual weakness and sinfulness are not the ways to get yourself the job of president.
Obama's explanation for the slowdown in economic growth is that the public sector is hurting, and that's where Washington must step in and act.
Memories of the last nine years have turned Ground Zero from a site of horror, to a reminder of grief, to an occasion for ludicrous artistic posturing - and now to something very close to parody.
I think making a pretense of civility toward Eric Alterman is like making a pretense of civility to a scorpion.
Back in 1995, Bill Gates himself didn't understand that the internet was the direction computing was going.
For the record, I am not an admitted homosexual, nor am I a homosexual, though I do know the lyrics to every show tune ever written, which might perhaps account for the confusion.
Uncontrolled access to data, with no audit trail of activity and no oversight would be going too far. This applies to both commercial and government use of data about people.
TIA was being used by real users, working on real data - foreign data. Data where privacy is not an issue.
Nevertheless, all of us who work in quantum physics believe in the reality of a quantum world, and the reality of quantum entities like protons and electrons.
So Whitehead's metaphysics doesn't fit very well on to physics as we understand the process of the world.
Well, it's because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.
I had changed from being a mathematician to a practicing scientist. I was increasingly embarassed that I could no longer follow some of the more modern branches of pure mathematics.
Life with a scientist who is often changing jobs and is frequently away at meetings and on lecture tours is not easy. Without a secure home base, I could not have made much progress.
In the war, most young men were inducted into the armed forces at the age of 17. A group of students was permitted to attend university before taking part in wartime research projects.
By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.
My roots, my background and the way I act is working class, but it would be hypsocritical to say I'm anything else than middle class now.
We believe the 36, nearly 40, billion pound discount given for a right to buy houses took a million houses out of the public housing sector which is desperately needed for rent.
What we are beginning to witness is a whole new set of rules for economics, based on rationing resources.
Improving the quality of life for people of this country is perhaps the most important duty of Government
It's moving in the right direction. It was in decline under the previous administration.
If you look at Newcastle or Gateshead, even over twenty years, even with the previous administration, it has moved quite remarkably in transforming itself.
Pugsley's First Law of Government: All government programs accomplish the opposite of what they are designed to achieve.
The best guarantee against the abuse of power consists in the freedom, the purity, and the frequency of popular elections.
