John Quotes

The only cure from sin is by maintaining a vision of God.

Significance is about who we are before it is about what we do.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.

Only what God has commanded in His word should be regarded as binding; in all else there may be liberty of actions.

I did not hear what I should have listened to.

If we believe not with faith divine and supernatural, we believe not at all.

Meditate on the Word in the Word.

To some men it is hard seeing a call of God through difficulties; when if it would but clothe itself with a few carnal advantages, how apparent it is to them! They can see it through a little cranny.

Men think all things would be very glorious if they might be done according to their mind. Perhaps, indeed, they would-but with their glory, not the glory of God.

It being our duty to mortify... we must be at work. He that is appointed to kill an enemy, if he leave striking before the other ceases living, does but half his work.

Consider that it is not failing in this or that attempt to come to Christ, but a giving-over of your endeavors, that will be your ruin.

Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.

The least grace is a better security for heaven than the greatest gifts or privileges whatsoever.

A river continually fed by a living fountain may as soon end its streams before it come to the ocean, as a stop be put to the course and progress of grace before it issue in glory.

Let, then, the word be preached, and the sins of men will be rebuked, lust will be restrained, and some oppositions will be made against sin, though that be not the effect aimed at.

The natural man "cannot see or discern that divine excellency in the Scripture, without an apprehension whereof no man can believe it aright to be the word of God."

It's hard to replace the gray matter that is inherent in every human being. No computer can do it quite that well yet.

If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then be put in a gas chamber.

When you're writing for theater or TV, it's open-ended in scope. You can write 10 separate pieces that are really effective but have no place on a rock record or whatever.

Trying to lead an interesting life, a fruitful life, is a big challenge.

It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.

Inquiry is more important than answers, for it is the questions we ask and the way in which we ask them that defines us.

A photograph is an invitation to look - and to look at looking.

Above all, remember that the computer simply isn't as intelligent as you are.

Don't ask 'Should I ...?'. Instead, 'Ask what happens if I ...?'

I'd say seeking is one of the fundamental artistic impulses. Art is about discovery. The medium is not the message.

Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.

Education, or enrichment, is a dynamic, evolving, lifelong process. Every time you look, sensitively with awareness, your vision grows.

I'll never retire. I like what I'm doing.

When the commission finds that a pig has entered the parlor, the exercise of its regulatory power does not depend on proof the pig is obscene.

The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.

God's jokes are the soul's curriculum.

I'm realizing this more and more that it's one thing to get involved with your own political beliefs and stand behind you believe in personally.

I wanna go in the studio and just go back to the same amps and stuff I'm so comfortable with the sound of. Which I think is important to stay original.

With all tools at my disposal, I'm 100% into chasing tone and checking out new equipment and "geeking" out during sound check by taking too much time.

People think the camera steals their soul. Places, I am convinced, are affected in the opposite direction. The more they are photographed (or drawn and painted) the more soul they seem to accumulate.

I think that the quality of all bands is steadily improving and it is a pleasant thought to me that perhaps the efforts of Sousa's Band have quickened that interest and improved that quality.

The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

Our spirituality lies in wholeness.

Marriage is sought and kept alive by a deep yearning to know another and be known by another.

Love is not a given, it's a state that we work toward and experience gradually.

The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.

Christ is glorified in you when he is more precious to you than all that life can give or death can take.

Where feelings for God are dead, worship is dead.

Our main work is, by the spirit of God, with the Word of God, to portray the glories of God as more beautiful and more satisfying than anything.

We embrace the hand we've been dealt, because we know the Dealer, and he never deals badly.

Marriage is not absolutely for making children. But it is absolutely for making children followers of Jesus.

If my life was to have a single, all-satisfying, unifying passion, it would have to be God's passion.

The immensity of His worth is reflected in the intensity of your worship.