John Quotes

True liberty is not liberty to do evil as well as good.

God is our father, but even more is God our mother.

Only the chaste man and the chaste woman are capable of true love.

Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder.

The best soulwinners are those who go when it is convenient and then go when it is not convenient.

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

In contemplative prayer we seek to become the person we are called to be, not by thinking of God, but by being with God. Simply to be with God is to be drawn into being the person God calls us to be

You don't give people dignity. You affirm it.

There is material enough in a single flower for the ornament of a score of cathedrals.

Those who suppress freedom always do so in the name of law and order.

It's better to have a pocket full of regrets than to never have lived.

If you alter or obscure the Biblical portrait of God in order to attract converts, you don't get converts to God, you get converts to an illusion. This is not evangelism, but deception.

The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is

To learn something new, take the path that you took yesterday.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most wickedest of men will do the most wickedest of things for the greatest good of everyone.

You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

Unfortunately, in war, there are casualties, including among the civilian population.

Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.

You have to live with the people to know their needs, and you have to live with God to know how to solve them.

The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn't make a decision.

It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.

The first year was like icing. Then the cake started to show through.

Music exalts each joy, allays each grief, expels diseases, softens every pain.

You don't have to work for a big corporation if you don't want to.

As they say in sports, the older you get, the better you used to be.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

Exercise is the single best thing you can do for your brain in terms of mood, memory, and learning.

I'm a person of the mountains and the open paddocks and the big empty sky, that's me, and I knew if I spent too long away from all that I'd die; I don't know what of, I just knew I'd die.

Godly leadership is not about attaining recognition or glory; it's about serving others.

Awareness is bad for the meat business. Conscience is bad for the meat business. Sensitivity to life is bad for the meat business. DENIAL, however, the meat business finds indispensable.

A milligram of prevention is worth a kilogram of cure.

You'd have to be daft as a brush to say you didn't like Pink Floyd.

We often hear of people breaking down from overwork, but in nine out of ten they are really suffering from worry or anxiety.

A minister may fill his pews, his communion roll, the mouths of the public, but what that minister is on his knees in secret before God Almighty, that he is and no more.

Volleyball is like going to church ... many attend, but few understand.

People don't choose their careers; they are engulfed by them.

Bring the best of your Authentic Self to every opportunity.

The more successful you are, the more you need to learn and grow. Your commitment to learning has to be continuous and unrelenting.

Your biggest challenge will be building a great team.

I was sold on flying as soon as I had a taste for it.

Green calm below, blue quietness above.

Our wish, our object, our chief preoccupation must be to form Jesus in ourselves, to make his spirit, his devotion, his affections, his desire, and his disposition live and reign there.

Ask not that the journey be easy; ask instead that it be worth it.

A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget.

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

The rising tide lifts all the boats.

I have pretty thick skin, and I think if you're going to be in this business, if you're going to be an actor or a writer, you better have a thick skin.

It is impossible to be a true soldier of Jesus Christ and not fight.