John Quotes

She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.

Purity prepares the soul for love, and love confirms the soul in purity.

Malcolm X found the language that communicated across the board, from college professor to floor sweeper, all at the same time, without demeaning the intellect of either.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help.

Practice gotta be harder than the games and it never is unless you want it to be as a player. The coach can't drive that

No man can come to God but by an extraordinary revelation of the Spirit.

We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

The Doctor of our souls has placed the remedy in the hidden regions of the soul.

Whether you like me or you don't, I still dig showing up for work.

Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.

There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.

When my information changes, I alter my conclusions. What do you do, sir?

Life calls the tune, we dance.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it.

Never fear your enemy but always respect them

We can have whatever it is we choose, I don't care how big it is. You become what you think about, but you also attract what you think about most.

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We all know that the real reason universities have students is in order to educate the professors.

when man and women are able to respect and accept there differences the love has a chance to blossom

There are certain qualities of light that blur the years.

I don't attend any particular church now. I don't believe in denominations, nor do I believe in organized religion.

Slavery ended and left its false images of black people intact

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

I am not anti-American. But I am strongly pro-Canadian.

Fishing in rainy conditions may make fisherman seem crazy to the great mass of unimaginative people, but then few fishermen care what they think

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

Politics is a jungle-torn between doing the right thing and staying in office.

Human will does not by liberty obtain grace, but by grace obtains liberty.

We must abolish nuclear weapons, or they will abolish us.

The phrase "think for one's self" is a pleonasm. Unless one does it for one's self, it isn't thinking.

You know, the finest line a man will walk is between success at work and success at home.

Romance lasts forever, love don't fade away. They may take away our future, but they can't stop yesterday.

The Earth is our mother just turning around, with her trees in the forest and roots underground. Our father above us whose sigh is the wind, paint us a rainbow without any end.

As soon as you give your heart to something new you will immediately be able to think in a way that is new.

...that all may bow to the scepter of our Lord Jesus Christ and that the whole Earth may be filled with his glory.

In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

I glory in publicly avowing my eternal enmity to tyranny.

Poverty is caused by sin and disobeying the word of god.

Oh, how blessed young men are who have to struggle for a foundation and beginning in life.

I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers

Through the chill of December the early winter moans... but it's that January wind that rattles old bones.

Love is something that you can leave behind you when you die. It's that powerful.

Perhaps the less we have, the more we are required to brag.

There are two kinds of people in the world, observers and non-observers.

Grace is God loving, God stooping, God coming to the rescue, God giving himself generously in and through Jesus Christ.

I furnished the body that was needed to sit in the defendant's chair.[Explaining his role in the Scopes Monkey Trial.]