John Quotes
Words have meaning beyond the obvious. Words have consequences beyond intentions. Civil words align risk and reward of such unknowns.
Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences. Restrain and release words with respect for their consequentialness.
Freedom of speech means setting words free. Imprisoned and freed words are consequential. All words have consequences.
...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...
...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles to cast my fate...
...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words...
...being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...
...all this time I've been worshiping you - when other men wanted to kiss you, I've been offering the praise of my lips...
...words are so strong and I am so timid - my soul ignores warnings and I end up covered with your paint ...
...I gave you painted air - tears I couldn't weep - truths I couldn't speak - all the words that caught in my throat...
...you can be angry and silent, but it's no use - there's no distance in the spirit - besides, my words touch you more softly than my hands...
...when you're hard and unyielding your words score me with lines - I hate lines - I want curves - curves are happy like a snowman ...
...I need you to be a listener - you need me to hang word on. We're friends because neither has discovered a limit where the other ends...
...you can use words if you wish, but I'm warning you - I've learned how to read your heart ...
... only a seer or a lover would know that I'm making a jewelry of words for you -drawn from your essence -to flash and burn with your fire -so you can bedazzle with your own light ...
...good words - that triumphalism of positivity- but life will claw and eat you - chew you over and over - if you carry such a small knife ...
...why is my cat a Muse? the cat has the rare grace of never saying a word too much― Mark Twain ...that's why ...
...come lie beside me again and understand - the others can show by actions, but I alone will immortalize you in words...
...perhaps in actions I'm less of a man - but, oh the words - such lovely words...
weltschmerz. it's the depression you feel when the world as it is does not line up with the world as you think it should be
It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.
Most of your unhappiness in life comes from the fact that you are listening to yourself instead of talking to yourself.
Absolute statements of our unbelief that we make in the darkness are notoriously unreliable.
Exercise is not an instant cure, but you need to get your brain working again, and if you move your body your brain won't have any choice.
i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me.those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time.
i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time
i am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. those seem to be the two choices. everything else is just killing time.
Even the demons are encouraged when their chief is "not lost in loss itself.
But, in fact, depression is not a side effect of cancer. Depression is a side effect of dying. - Hazel Grace Lancaster
Don’t forget:Ruts aren’t that much different . . .from graves.
I am constantly torn between killing myself and killing everyone around me. Those seem to be the two choices. Everything else is just killing time.
...you are my Lady of Shalott lost in a dream of isolation - I care too much for you - I romanticize depression...
Grace is not a little prayer you say before you eat. It is a way of life. Eph 2:8, 9
Are we willing to shun vain repetition and keep our prayers out of an unchallenging rut by asking God to make us more sensitive to our own sin?
By nature, we get more pleasure from God's gifts then from Himself.
The most precious gifts you can think of are not ends in themselves. They all lead to God. Ultimately, that is what all His gifts are for.
It is not an external enemy we dread. Our foe is shut up within ourselves. An internal warfare is daily waged by us.
You will find it hard to hear from God until you let go your rights and your agenda.
If you are religious, pray. If you are philosophical, contemplate. If you are spiritual, meditate.
He who neglects to pray alone and in private, however assiduously he frequents public meetings, there gives his prayers to the wind.
He regards it as the highest insult for the wicked to boast of His covenant while profaning His sacred Name by their whole lives.
Men in prayer give greater license to their unlawful desires than if they were telling jocular tales among their equals.
We fail to prevail with unconverted men because of our more fundamental failure to prevail with God in prayer.
...all my life I prayed to a star – Later discovered it was Venus – I was praying to Aphrodite and wondering why she was sending me you -sad...