John Quotes

God created me—and you—to live with a single, all-embracing, all-transforming passion—namely, a passion to glorify God by enjoying and displaying his supreme excellence in all the spheres of life.

I don't believe in God. And I certainly don't feel chosen.""I think you may be."I smiled dubiously. "Thank you.""It is not meant as a compliment. Hazard makes you elect. You cannot elect yourself.

Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are.

The only people who soul can truly magnify the Lord are...people who acknowledge their lowly estate and are overwhelmed by the condescension of the magnificent God.

Be strong, live happy and love, but first of allHim whom to love is to obey, and keepHis great command!

The glory of God is as destructive of evil as it is creative of good.

There used to be a time when i thought of god i'd look to the power in the sky, now when i think of god i look at the power within myself.

Sanity calms, but madness is more interesting.

When did you get so clever?""When I realized I wasn't as clever as I thought.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

The life and passion of a person leave an imprint on the ether of a place. Love does not remain within the heart, it flows out to build secret tabernacles in a landscape.

Wisdom, itself, is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion.

Wisdom’s Pearl doth often dwellClosed in Fancy’s rainbow shell

Influence is everything. One wrong influence can single handedly destroy every bit of your innocence and innocence is the root of all wisdom.

You can build a business, or you can run it, but there’s only two ways it can be run, you can run it straight, or you can run it into the ground.

So many people set off in a direction in life but don’t think things completely through first.

Faith moves mountains, love transforms hearts.

Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and belonging to the voyeuristic eye of a neon culture. Real intimacy is of the soul, and the soul is reserved.

There are many rivers that we cross in our lifetime, unfortunately some of those rivers just don't have bridges.

love yourself, ., ., ., for the sake of your better future

Genius is the power of lighting one's own fire!

One who has reached a goal no longer travels the road"(Pauline Christianity, p. 111)

Yet some there be that by due steps aspireTo lay their just hands on that golden keyThat opes the palace of Eternity.To such my errand is

There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do.It is really that simple.And that hard.

The end of the creation is that God may communicate happiness to the creature

Never let anybody destroy your own ability to create happiness.Its the only thing that will let you succeed when you feel everything else has let you down.Peace and love.

Doing the next "right thing" will always bring more genuine happiness than simply doing the next fun thing.

SUICIDE... Is to have the freedom to choose, when, where and how to die.

We all romanticize the people we adore.

If you want the rainbow, you have to deal with the rain.

Keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe... but failing to open the box doesn't kill the cat.

We need never be without hope because we can never be irreparably broken.

God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.Surely, while we live we are not lost.Oh Janos, Janos my brother!Surely we are not lost--while we live.

Men and women are not limited by the place of their birth, not by color of their skin, but by the size of their hope.

We hold our dreams and ideals close to our hearts, where the promises are made to the future generations.

We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.

When in darkness....strike a match

Hope is something that can never be taken from you unless you allow someone to take it. If you never lose hope, you will never truly be poor.

Consult.../what reinforcement we may gain from hope, /If not, what resolution from despair.

I'm not afraid of death because I don't believe in it.It's just getting out of one car, and into another.

I will not tell you our love story, because-like all real love stories-it will die with us, as it should.

We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.

This time it is real — all must die, and where could mountaineer find a more glorious death!

I didn't tell him that the diagnosis came three months after I got my first period. Like: Congratulations! You're a woman. Now die.

I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

Right, well, he'd been sick for a while and his nurse said to him, 'You seem to be feeling better this morning, ' and Isben looked at her and said, 'On the contrary, ' and then he died.

You can't just make me different and then leave

Please not yet. Those are the three eternal words. Please not yet.

For, truly, the man who does not know when to die, does not know how to live.