John Quotes

The theory was simple: If a man had enough sense to accumulate a bunch of cash, then he would certainly make a worthy U.S senator.

Our political system is now run by the Big People for their own interests. If they ever deign to notice the Little People, it is with disdain and contempt.

The fate of the Right in the late modern age is to destroy what remains of the past in a vain attempt to recover it.

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?For if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

...Russia itself having turned to socialist realism - no-man's-land between surrealism and communism, ...

In politics and passion, perception is reality.

The heirs of Jefferson and Madison would be the Democratic-Republicans, the heirs of Hamilton and Adams would be the Federalists. But the heirs of Washington would be all Americans.

Princes give rewards with their own hands, But death or punishment by the hands of other.

The more doubtful the political outlook the fiercer will be the dogmas which men create and contend for.

Put your interest in the future, because you're going to spend the rest of your life there and make sure in this future you will be found in the loving arms of Christ

I was satisfied that I had done my best. She was insane.

Where I grew up, women’s liberation was when you let a chick out of her cage for 15 minutes so she could stretch her legs.

We first make our habits, then our habits make us.

If not us, then who?If not now, then when?

And when the clouds do clear awayGet a momentary chance to seeThe thing I've been trying to beat to deathThe soft creature that I used to beThe better animal I used to be

It's in the nature of the landscape to change, and it's in the nature of people to help the process along...

If not now, then when?

I love you, " "I was wrong, " and "I apologize" are powerful words. They can save marriages, deepen friendships, and change lives. Don't be afraid to use them.

That's the thing. You come back and you expect everyone to be just the way they were when you left. But it's not that easy, okay? You can't just force us all to be how you liked us.

Every moment, every breath, is a new opportunity. An opportunity to let go of the past and to become the person you choose to be.

The biggest life change any man would ever experience was the ending of it.

If you want to do something that really changes someone’s life, the best thing you can do is make the person you’re trying to help a participant in the process.

Beauty is the illumination of your soul.

I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless.

Because you're beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence.

How I should despise such a thing if I were a man. What a nose she has! what a chin! what a neck! Then her eyes--and the worst kissing lips in the universe.

None can sense more deeply than you artists, ingenious creators of beauty that you are, something of the pathos with which God at the dawn of creation looked upon the work of his hands.

The trick and the beauty of language is that it seems to order the whole universe, misleading us into believing that we live in sight of a rational space, a possible harmony.

People want what was best about the world.

Forbid that I should walk through Thy beautiful world with unseeing eyes.

We are all beautiful in the eyes of God.

She was a tragic beauty. Sadness had left its fingerprints all over her face.

He was alone in his wonderment, amoung creatures incapable of wonder--for them it was enough to exist and go their way.

...all that is carried alongby the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current--carried where?

God isn't looking for perfect people. He is looking to perfect people.

Just because you don't believe in something does not mean that it's not true.

As’ is the most difficult word in a Christian’s life. We have to forgive 'as' we want to be forgiven.

Everything [Jesus] taught and did was a summons to the humility and love that purge self-exaltation out of leadership and servility out of submission.

Christianity is a journey not a destination

Love is the overflow of joy in God that meets the needs of others

Men cannot give a meaning to history that they themselves lack, nor can they honor a past which indicts them for their present failures.

Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people group in the world.

The aim of the gospel is the creation of people who are passionate for doing good rather than settling for the passionless avoidance of evil.

Over the past two hundred years philosophy has shaken off Christian faith. It has not given up Christianity's cardinal error -the belief that humans are radically different from all other animals.

The Buddha promised release from something we all understand: suffering. By contrast, no one can say what was the original sin, and no one understands how the suffering of Christ can redeem it.

One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen.

The soul would have no rainbow, had the eyes no tears.

All you can ever achieve is a sense of your soul. You gain little glimpses of its light, colors, and contours. You feel the inspiration of its possibilities and the wonder of its mysteries.