John Quotes

The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life.

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

I think that anything that begins to give people a sense of their own worth and dignity is God.

I only storyboard scenes that require special effects, where it is necessary to communicate through pictures.

The first step to leadership is servanthood.

Give me a stout heart to bear my own burdens. Give me a willing heart to bear the burdens of others. Give me a believing heart to cast all burdens upon Thee, O Lord.

Much that is beautiful must be discarded So that we may resemble a taller Impression of ourselves.

There are many Christians who are Christians in theory only, and they are worldlings in practice.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams. So much depends upom a red wheel barrow glazed with rain water beside the white chickens.

Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

If your investments are limited to this earth, you are the world's worst investor.

The rights essential to happiness. . . . We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth.

Acting is half shame, half glory. Shame at exhibiting yourself, glory when you can forget yourself.

Alas for him who never sees The stars shine through his cypress-trees Who, hopeless, lays his dead away, Nor looks to see the breaking day Across the mournful marbles play!

Wherever we see the Word of God purely preached and heard, there a church of God exists, even if it swarms with many faults.

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You smell like crap so I know you don't like soap.

A dead cow or sheep lying in a pasture is recognized as carrion. The same sort of a carcass dressed and hung up in a butcher's stall passes as food.

My hope and prayer is that everyone know and love our country for what she really is and what she stands for.

The test of sincerity of one's prayer is the willingness to labor on its behalf.

I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.

Let me hear your body talk.

To say the right thing at the right time, keep still most of the time.

The Christian's chief occupational hazards are depression and discouragement.

The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.

The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

Investing is an activity of forecasting the yield over the life of the asset; speculation is the activity of forecasting the psychology of the market.

Happiness consists in activity. It is a running stream, not a stagnant pool.

A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember.

No mighty trance, or breathed spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.

Conservatives must avoid the siren song of schism, or all is lost.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Liberty is to be free from restraint and violence from others

Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music

Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot.

This is faith: a renouncing of everything we are apt to call our own and relying wholly upon the blood, righteousness and intercession of Jesus.

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional.

Teamwork makes the dream work, but a vision becomes a nightmare when the leader has a big dream and a bad team.

It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.

Take God for your spouse and friend and walk with him continually, and you will not sin and will learn to love, and the things you must do will work out prosperously for you.

If life had a second edition, how I would correct the proofs.

I've always thought people would find a lot more pleasure in their routines if they burst into song at significant moments.

Sometimes the most positive thing you can be in a boring society is absolutely negative.

Our sins, when laid upon Christ, were yet personally ours, not his; so his righteousness, when put upon us, is yet personally his, not ours.