John Quotes

I chose to live my life unafraid even during times when I WAS afraid. I discovered that opportunities don't find you; you find your opportunities.

I have nothing to say, and I am saying it.

There can be no causeless love or any sort of causeless emotion. An emotion is a response to a fact of reality, an estimate dictated by your standards.

Just as a flower which seems beautiful and has color but no perfume, so are the fruitless words of the man who speaks them but does them not.

The reason that people do not have a rich, beautiful faith is that their spirit is denied the privilege of communion and fellowship with the Father.

Schools have ignored the value of experience and chosen to teach by pouring in.

Faith and hope...are the wings by which our souls, rising above the world, are lifted up to God.

The only reason to give a speech is to change the world.

They were enjoying it. Whether they were faking or not, they were enjoying it.

The let-go of the last little bit is the biggest because, in that, there is no return.

If the house is to be set in the order, one cannot begin with the present; he must begin with the past

Let our love be like an arch- two weaknesses leaning together to form one strength.

People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it’s the stuff we CAN understand. It’s cats that are complicated.

Homeopathy is a progressive and aggressive step in medicine.

Sell a stock only when you have found a new stock that is a 50% better bargain than the one that you hold.

I still say if the ball is there to be won I will go for it, whether with my head or whatever, and if it means us scoring or stopping a goal, I won't think twice.

I had a little teddy bear called Gordon the gopher. I took him to bed with me, he'd come to school with me cos he was my favourite.

When communicating results to non-technical types there is nothing better than a clear visualization to make your point.

I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody's head.

If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.

Don't go to a school just because your friends are there or because it sounds like a dream school. Go to a program that fits your style of play.

Give me one hundred men who love only God with all their heart and hate only sin with all their heart and we will shake the gates of hell and bring in the kingdom of God in one generation.

When we stand for social justice, we testify to the presence of the Kingdom.

The main ingredient of stardom is the rest of the team.

Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say.

May Mary, who in the freedom of her 'Fiat' and her presence at the foot of the cross, offered to the world, Jesus, the Liberator, help us to find him in the Sacrament of the altar

Every family should have a room where Christ is welcome in the person of the hungry and thirsty stranger.

If repentance is neglected for an instant, one can lose the power of the Resurrection as he lives with the weakness of tepidity and the potential of his fall.

It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.

All great and precious things are lonely.

I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.

It is not enough for journalists to see themselves as mere messengers without understanding the hidden agendas of the message and the myths that surround it.

All religion seems to need to prove that it's the only truth. And that's where it turns demonic. Because that's when you get religious wars and persecutions and burning heretics at the stake.

Discipline - Success doesn't just happen. You have to be intentional about it, and that takes discipline.

Not realizing what you want is a problem of knowledge. Not pursuing what you want is a problem of motivation. Not achieving what you want is a problem of persistence.

In the mind, there are no limits...

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

Mistreating your drum set is just one step below child abuse

Brushes..? Nah. Hit 'em as hard as you can.

We all have life-defining moments. They are like open-book tests, but we don't know we have been examined until it is over.

I go back and forth between wanting to be abundantly simple and maddeningly complex.

We Recognize No Sovereign but God, and no King but Jesus!

Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.

I think there are two keys to success. One is to show up. The other one is to keep going. Most people don’t keep going.

It is there, at the foot of the cross, that we shrink to our true size.

Every Christian should be both conservative and radical; conservative in preserving the faith and radical in applying it.

Man’s works do not even come close to the works of the Holy Spirit. If the Holy Spirit does not work, all the efforts of man will come to naught.

The person who really wants to do something finds a way; the other finds an excuse.

The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.