John Quotes
The demand for liberty is a demand for power, either for possession of powers of action not already possessed or for retention and expansion of powers already possessed.
All our problems are spiritual, and our only spiritual problem is not realizing we are spiritual.
In some aspects of alternative medicine we are fighting an almost medieval belief in magic but debunking such beliefs is like telling people that the tooth fairy is sniffing glue.
In the face of such overwhelming statistical possibilities hypochondria has always seems to me to be the only rational position to take on life.
I count all that part of my life lost which I spent not in communion with God, or in doing good.
Keep us, Lord, so awake in the duties of our calling that we may sleep in thy peace and wake in thy glory.
God is so omnipresent. . . . God is an angel in an angel, and a stone in a stone, and a straw in a straw.
On a huge hill, Cragged, and steep, Truth stands, and hee that will Reach her, about must, and about must goo.
Verse hath a middle nature: heaven keeps souls, The grave keeps bodies, verse the fame enrols.
Autism is defined by looking at behaviors. And everybody looks at behaviors differently.
War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.
Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
Seas are the fields of combat for the winds; but when they sweep along some flowery coast, their wings move mildly, and their rage is lost.
The landscape of childhood shapes us as it shapes the characters in our stories. You never forget the sacred places of your childhood.
Drug programs began to turn their attention and money away from prevention and into maintenance. Methadone was cheaper than social workers, I suppose.
The first lecture of each new year renews for most people a light stage fright.
Even more precious is his Edward writes, I'm always saying that it is not the spirits who are getting it wrong; it's more likely that I am misinterpreting their messages.
When we win on an issue we call it leadership. When we lose, we call it politics. Practicing politics simply means increasing your options for effective results.
Every man carries a wound. I have never met a man without one. No matter how good your life may have seemed to you, you live in a broken world full of broken people.
When a woman forsakes her vulnerability because she's been hurt or because she lives in a dangerous world or doesn't want to be used, she loses something essential about being a woman.
If you really want to break from the pack, you have to risk being perceived to be as eccentric as these people. You have to think exceptionally-a LOT!
I'm part of the consumer culture. I was part of the baby boom generation. I have a car when I shouldn't, a couple of computers; I can't be anti-consumerist in that sense.
How ironic, to be my last game that I ever played would be against Dan in a Super Bowl. The thing I always was afraid of was playing in a Super Bowl when it was raining. I can't throw a wet ball.
More than any other games, baseball gives its players space - both physical and emotional - in which to define themselves.
The guiding principle of this Nation has been, is now, and ever shall be IN GOD WE TRUST.
I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law.
I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty...an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft.
Just because we cannot see clearly te end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey.
I see little more important to the future of our country and our civilization than the full recognition of the place of the artist.
But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone.