John Quotes

It is about the greatness of God, not the significance of man. God made man small and the universe big to say something about himself.

The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus, you must renounce comfort as the ultimate value of your life.

The last clear definite function of man — muscles aching to work, minds aching to create beyond the single need — this is man.

It's nice to be known as a good player. But I want to be known as a good person, too.

The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursuing his education.

I acknowledge that the sacrament of the altar is very God's body in form of bread, but it is in another manner God's body than it is in heaven.

I can never consent to being dictated to.

When do we get to do the stuff? You know, the stuff here in the Bible; the stuff Jesus did, like healing the sick, raising the dead, healing the blind - stuff like that?

A women under stress is not immediately concerned with finding solutions to her problems but rather seeks relief by expressing herself and being understood

More history is made by secret handshakes than by battles, bills and proclamations.

Do not be afraid to allow the Holy Spirit to reveal any unforgiveness or bitterness. The longer you hide it, the stronger it will become and the harder your heart will grow. Stay tenderhearted.

He looked down and did something quite out of character for him: he took hold of Shmuel's tiny hand in his and squeezed it tightly. "You're my best friend, Shmuel," he said. "My best friend for life.

the problem is not suffering itself or oblivion itself but the depraved meaninglessness of these things, the absolutely inhuman nihilism of suffering.

The role of religions in the domination and destruction of African civilizations was ruthless... Islam was as guilty as all the rest.

Faith looks back and draws courage; hope looks ahead, and keeps desire alive.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

Men will never worship God with a sincere heart, or be roused to fear and obey Him with sufficient zeal, until they properly understand how much they are indebted to His mercy.

When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.

It's nice to worry about playing golf and not all the other stuff.

To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others.

I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

Half my life is an act of revision.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

She is the crescendo, the final, astonishing work of God. Woman. In one last flourish creation comes to a finish with Eve. She is the Master's finishing touch.

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.

Life is getting up one more time than you've been knocked down.

Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

Ability is that sufficiency which cometh from God.

Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace.

A strong leader accepts blame and gives the credit. A weak leader gives blame and accepts the credit.

If we magnified blessings as much as we magnify disappointments, we would all be much happier.

People go wrong in their fellowships before they go wrong in their doctrine.

It's my responsibility as a singer-songwriter to report the news.

You have a unique message to deliver, a unique song to sing, a unique act of love to bestow. This message, this song, and this act of love have been entrusted exclusively to the one and only you.

I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

To listen well is as powerful a means of communication and influence as to talk well

Who, as they sung, would take the prison'd soul And lap it in Elysium.

I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way.

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.

In a change effort, culture comes last, not first.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

The presence of the Holy Spirit isthe keystone of all our hopes.

If the Lord be with us, we have no cause of fear. His eye is upon us, His arm over us, His ear open to our prayer - His grace sufficient, His promise unchangeable.

The Intentionality of the mind not only creates the possibility of meaning, but limits its forms.

Wise people build their lives around what is eternal and squeeze in what is temporary. Not the other way around.

It is time we recognized that the real terrorism is poverty.