John Quotes

An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.

To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!

One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.

I believe in white supremacy until the blacks are educated to the point of responsibility. I don't believe in giving authority and positions of leadership and judgment to irresponsible people.

Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness.

I am able to control only that which I am aware of. That which I am unaware of controls me. Awareness empowers me.

The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering.

Apart from the mercy of God, there is no other source of hope for mankind.

When boiled down to its essence, unforgiveness is hatred.

I'm fascinated by America...it's so odd.

Now Jesus, he don't like killing, no matter what the reason is for, and your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.

Liberal constitutional democracy is supposed to ensure that each citizen is free and equal and protected by basic rights and liberties.

The biggest mistake I made and what cost me a lot of enjoyment in my life, was assuming that everybody cared. They don’t.

The invisible realm is superior and far more real than the visible realm.

Life on this earth first emerged from the sea. As the polar ice melts and sea level rises, we humans find ourselves facing the prospect that once again we may quite literally become ocean.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Where there is no law there is no freedom.

A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words.

A day spent wasting time, that you enjoyed, is not time wasted.

Faith, if it be a living faith, will be a working faith.

I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake.

People don't enjoy salt. They enjoy what is salted. We are the salt of the earth. We do not exist for ourselves.

It is hard work and great art to make life not so serious.

Dancing is the poetry of the foot.

It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being.

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.

What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.

I thank Thee, O Lord, that Thou hast so set eternity within my heart that no earthly thing can ever satisfy me wholly.

The longer I live, the more I read, the more patiently I think, and the more anxiously I inquire, the less I seem to know...Do justly. Love mercy. Walk humbly [with your God]. This is enough.

What is the single most important quality in a tennis champion? I would have to say desire, staying in there and winning matches when you are not playing that well.

I want to be remembered as a great player, but I guess it will be as a player who got angry on a tennis court.

Duty is ours, results are God's.

Don't tell me what I can't do!

The discipline of desire is the background of character.

Most US corporations today are over-managed and under-led. They need to develop their capacity to exercise leadership.

To make it hard, to make it difficult almost impossible for people to cast a vote is not in keeping with the democratic process.

We built a coalition of conscience, and that we can do it again, and we can go forward, and help redeem the soul of America.

Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!

It seems to me that a Christian like myself is presented with major problems, but they're nothing like the problems of the atheist.

The world, we are told, was made especially for man - a presumption not supported by all the facts... Why should man value himself as more than a small part of the one great unit of creation?

For to pretend that men may live habitually sinful lives without any attempt by the Spirit to mortify sin in them, nor with any desire for repentance, is to deny the Christian religion.

Nothing shall be lost that is done for God or in obedience to Him.

The highest mental health is not liking myself but being joyfully interested in everything but myself.

The Eucharist is a fire which inflames us

Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved.

There is nothing better or morenecessary than love.

I don't like reindeer. They seem like regular deer, only more dangerous.

Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys.

Success doesn't happen overnight. It's the small successes achieved day by day that build a company. So, don't be impatient or focused on immediate financial rewards.