John Quotes

The ultimate purpose of life is to show that Jesus is more precious than life.

Being infinite, God is inexhaustibly interesting. It is therefore impossible that God be boring.

The importance of prayer rises in proportion to the importance of the things we should give up in order to pray

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

There are a thousand needs in the world, and none of them compares to the global need for the gospel.

Seek to see and feel the gospel as bigger as years go by rather than smaller. Never let the gospel get smaller in your heart.

Ignatius, when he heard the clock strike, would say, "Now I have another hour to answer for." (Eph. 5:16)

The apex of glorifying God is enjoying Him with the heart. But this is empty emotionalism where that joy is not awakened and sustained by true views of God for who He really is

The whole world lives for pleasure. The only difference is theirs is fleeting, while ours is forever in Jesus.

God is not an employer looking for employees. He is an Eagle looking for people who will take refuge under his wings.

There will be no passion to draw others into our worship where there is no passion for worship.

Our concern with truth is simply an echo of our concern with God .

Strong affections for God, rooted in and shaped by the truth of Scripture - this is the bone and marrow of Biblical worship.

Sin is what you do when your heart is not satisfied with God. No one sins out of duty. We sin because it holds out some promise of happiness.

The goal of missions is the gladness of the peoples in the greatness of God.

Every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God.

The way of the cross is the way of suffering. Christians are called to die, not kill, in order to show the world how they are loved by Christ.

Every sin flows from the failure to treasure the glory of God above all things.

Sanctification is a community project.

Worship is an inward feeling and outward action that reflects the worth of God.

The Great Commission will not get done if we’re not ready to risk our lives and the lives of our family.

I think that people have to have to have a sense of what ideas are one the progressive side, the Democratic side in order ultimately to be effective in the political world.

Barack Obama is one of the greatest politicians in American history.

Headquarters in the Saddle.

In a sense, what we do with the regional development agencies is to give them resources to look at the deficiencies in the economy in the regional areas, so they can address themselves to that.

To believe that everyone is honest is folly, but to believe that no one is honest is worse.

It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future.

To furnish the means of acquiring knowledge is the greatest benefit that can be conferred upon mankind. It prolongs life itself, and enlarges the sphere of existence.

A man's diary is a record in youth of his sentiments, in middle age of his actions, in old age of his reflections.

The law is an artificial human construct, quite arbitrary, and of absolutely no use anywhere else but in a court of law!

I have for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year.

We know the redemption must come.

The gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

America, with the same voice which spoke herself into existence as a nation, proclaimed to mankind the inextinguishable rights of human nature, and the only lawful foundations of government.

Roll, years of promise, rapidly roll round, till not a slave shall on this earth be found.

If we dedicate ourselves over and over again to the goal of climbing one peak to the next...resisting the urge to become discouraged by the task-every one of us can become a high achiever.

Purpose is the engine, the power that drives and directs our lives.

I'm flatulent in many languages.

Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.

We speak piously of ... making small studies that will add another brick to the temple of science. Most such bricks just lie around the brickyard.

God doesn't send His children to Hell either. It's just the Devil's children that God sends to Hell. Why should God look after the Devil's children.

I chose Eat: LA as a broadcast partner because of its good taste, sense of humor, and spirit of adventure.

The undoubted sign of a society well under control or in decline is that language has ceased to be a means of communication and has become instead a shield for those who master it.

As an inclusive quality, imagination is thus our primary force for progress, whatever progress is.

We can know ourselves only because we can remember.

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.

The circumstances of justice may be described as the normal conditions under which human cooperation is both possible and necessary.

A political conception covers the right to vote, the political virtues, and the good of political life, but it doesn't intend to cover anything else.

At best the principles that economists have supposed the choices of rational individuals to satisfy can be presented as guidelines for us to consider when we make our decisions.

Intuitionism is not constructive, perfectionism is unacceptable.