John Quotes
The secret and the sacred are sisters. When the secret is not respected, the sacred vanishes. Consequently, reflection should not shine too severe or aggressive a light on the world of the soul.
Your soul is the priestess of memory, selecting, sifting, and ultimately gathering your vanishing days toward presence.
It's not about what my enemies can do to my body, it's more about what they can't do to my soul.Protected in the Arms of God
Your soul was bought for a price far greater than the world on the cross
My life has far exceeded my expectations not because of my own personal efforts or mindset but because of my friends who have enriched my existence
The task of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to elicit it, for the greatness is already there.
Too many in the Church today are likes babies in the nursery, they put everything in their mouth.
Headship is the divine calling of a husband to take primary responsibility for Christ-like, servant leadership, protection, and provision in the home.
The feelings of politicians are rarely transparent.
The author characterizes Hamilton's tone in the Federalist papers by saying that he never spoke of problems but of being at the last stage in the crisis.
For leaders, wars are filled with guesses.
The author points out that the moral failure of Abigail Adams' brother focused her on disciplining her children, and herself, so that they did not come to the same end.
Jefferson determined the lodestar that lay hidden in the motivations of others
You talk to leadership in China, and THEY are all the engineers. They get what is going on immediately. The Americans don't because they're all lawyers.
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves that they have a better idea.
Because that’s what a comic is, ultimately: a collection of pages. It’s not a flatpanel or a touchscreen, even though that’s where it might eventually be displayed. It’s a page.
Photographs do not translate from appearances. They quote from them.
How can you read and talk at the same time?” I asked.“Well, I usually can’t, but neither the book nor the conversation is particularly intellectually challenging.
I'm only happy when I forget to exist. When just my eyes or my ears or my skin exist.
People who read too many books get quirky. We can't have too much eccentricity or it would bankrupt us. Market research depends on people behaving as if they were all alike.
For true liberation, the only war we need to win is the war between presence and ego.
Waves crack with wicked fury against me ship's hull while ocean currents rage as the full moon rises o're the sea." (Cutthroat's Omen: A Crimson Dawn)