John Quotes
Happy the Man, who void of Cares and Strife, In Silken, or in Leathern Purse retains A Splendid Shilling: He nor hears with Pain New Oysters cry'd, nor sighs for chearful Ale
My galligaskins, that have long withstood The winter's fury, and encroaching frosts, By time subdued (what will not time subdue!), A horrid chasm disclosed.
We have an extreme rightwing government in Britain, although it's called the Labour government. That's confused a lot of people, but it's confusing them less and less.
The Mirror has become an important antidote to a media that is, most of it, supportive of the establishment, some of it quite rabidly rightwing. The Mirror is breaking ranks, and that's good news.
God's greatest interest is to glorify the wealth of His grace by making sinners happy in Him.
Where the Bible is esteemed as the inspired and inerrant Word of God, preaching can flourish. But where the Bible is treated merely as a record of valuable religious insight, preaching dies.
The abortion industry kills as many Black people every four days as the Klan killed in 150 years.
God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.
I am not a missionary, but I have wanted my life to count for the unreached peoples of the world.
There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow - especially since the King himself is stripped for battle.
We have a name for those who try to praise when they have no pleasure in the object. We call them hypocrites.
Only the # gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage.
God aims to look valuable in the world, and that happens when we treasure him above all else.
Some of you will die in the service of Christ. That will not be a tragedy. Treasuring life above Christ is a tragedy.
The very longing for contentment that ought to drive us to simplicity of life and labors of love contents itself instead with the broken cisterns of prosperity and comfort.
Homosexual behavior has been exploited, and reveled in, and celebrated in art, for millennia.
God is infinitely valuable. I can't think of anything that would have a greater impact on your life than for you to believe that.
Pastors and missionaries (need) to know God and to find in him a Treasure more satisfying than any other person or thing or relationship or experience or accomplishment in the world.
He shook my dozing soul and threw the cold water of reality in my face, so that life and God and heaven and hell broke into my world with glory and horror. (on CS Lewis)
Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.
Do you feel more loved when God makes much of you or do you feel more loved when God at the cost of His Son allows you to make much of Him?
If grace is to be free - which is the very meaning of grace - we cannot view it as something to be repaid.
Betrayed by Judas, denied by Peter, abandoned by the eleven, forsaken by God. Darkness, you get one hour. Then you die.
No one will be able to rise to the magnificence of the missionary cause who does not feel the magnificence of Christ.
It's amazing how many introverts go into the ministry. It's amazing how many people go into the ministry who don't really like to be with people.
If a tornado twists at 175 miles an hour and stays on the ground like a massive lawnmower for 50 miles, God gave the command.
The ultimate meaning of true womanhood is this: It is a distinctive calling of God to display the glory of his Son in ways that would not be displayed if there were no womanhood.
Not grace to bar what is not bliss, Nor flight from all distress, but this: The grace that orders our trouble and pain, And then, in the darkness, is there to sustain.
Donald Trump has been someone who has basically taken every position that Vladimir Putin has.
