John Quotes

I had mostly been writing humor books, and my instinct is generally to go for the joke.

Mac [Barnett]and I both had times when we moved, started new schools, and we know how hard that was, figuring out your identity and who you're going to be at the new school.

The concept is basically; that the pieces we know and love are made up of scales, arpeggios, and the like.

For many years, the government of Canada has massively supported orchestras and the arts in general.

Everyone loves a mysterious country.

Manufacture dooms in your head and you will go mad. Reality is incontravertible. Also, it will not be anticipated.

Perception of a state is not the state.

It's fun to play defense. It's fun to watch the opponent sweat on offense, start complaining to the officials, and eventually be taken out of the game because he's making so many offensive mistakes

The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love.

We had 10 children in our family. We all helped each other - we had to to exist, especially when we were out on the farm.

See everything. Ignore a lot. Improve a little.

For by his incarnation the Son of God united himself in a certain way with every man. He labored with human hands... and loved with a human heart. Born of Mary the Virgin, he truly became one of us.

There is no need to be dismayed if love sometimes follows torturous ways. Grace has the power to make straight the paths of human love.

We began by imagining that we are giving to the; we end by realizing that they have enriched us.

The enemy of the human race...invented a means never before heard of, by which he might hinder the preaching of God's word of Salvation to the people.

Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who 'pleased God and was loved by him' and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.

If you wish to be brothers, drop your weapons.

Man must reconcile himself to his natural greatness.... he must not forget that he is a person.

Do not be afraid to be the saints of the new mellineum!

The greatest gift you can give your child is another sibling.

It's too early for a Polish pope.

Hands are the heart's landscape.

To the family is entrusted the task of striving, first and foremost, to unleash the forces of good.

It would be a sad thing if the religious and moral convictions upon which the American experiment was founded could now somehow be considered a danger to free society.

The world [is] tired of ideology [and] is opening itself to the truth. The time has come when the splendor of this truth has begun anew to illuminate the darkness of human existence.

In the depths of the human soul... the desire to give meaning to one's own life is joined by the fleeting vision of beauty and of the mysterious unity of things.

Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts.

In the life of husband and wife together, fatherhood and motherhood represent such a sublime "novelty" and richness as can only be approached "on one's knees".

Respect for life and for the dignity of the human person also extends to the rest of creation, which is called to join man in praising God.

Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons

Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder --for them it was enough to exist and go their way.

Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way.

May the culture of life and love render vain the logic of death.

Is not Jesus pointing to children even as models for grownups?

Prayer gives us light by which to see and to judge from God's perspective and from eternity. That is why you must not give up on praying!

Art has a unique capacity to take one or other facet of the message and translate it into colors, shapes and sounds which nourish the intuition of those who look and listen.

The most profound and serious indication of the moral implications underlying the ecological problem is the lack of respect for life evident in many of the patterns of environmental pollution.

God made us for joy. God is joy, & the joy of living reflects the original joy that God felt in creating us.

It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.

The Church's teaching on ownership diverges radically from collectivism as proclaimed by Marxism and "rigid" capitalism. The primacy of the person over things joint ownership of the means of work.

The international community should support a system of laws to regularize international relations and maintain the peace in the same manner that law governs national order.

The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim and of which they are the central point.

The Rosary is my favorite prayer.

Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.

Humanity, its dignity and its balance, will depend at every moment and on every place on the globe,on who man is for woman and who woman is for man.

And so, like Moses (cf Ex 3, 5), in spirit we remove the shoes from our feet, on the threshold of the inner sanctuary that each of us must become as we meet the Lord.

Contraception contradicts the full truth of the sexual act as the proper expression of conjugal love.

The most urgent task is that of the biblical and liturgical formation of the people of God.

The 25th anniversary of the decision ... is a call to people of good will to reflect. Now is the time for recommitment to the building of a culture of absolute respect for life.