John Quotes

A sense of his own identity came upon him with sudden force, and he felt the power of it. He was himself, and he knew what he had been.

...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...

...you became lost in the maze of me - forgive me Love, for keeping you close...

You don't get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to lover her.

Most of us plateau when we lose the tension between where we are and where we ought to be.

Our hope is that all is well because of Jesus and that all will be well because of Him.

More Prayer=Less Gossip simply does say in the language of God “I Love You!

Don’t be afraid of making mistakes or failing. You never really fail anyway unless you actually give up and quit!

God did not create humans to be confused about God, Humans confused humans about God

A leader is the one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way.

if you don't believe, nothing ever happens at all.

Be careful—my heart is broken—and you could fall in

After what she's been through, there really should be crime scene tape around her heart.

She had willed herself open to him and knew that the chemistry of love was all within her, her doing. Even his power to wound her with neglect was a power she had created and granted ...

our hearts break, and take us out of relationships that are too painful for us

A heart never breaks in the same pattern of pieces

...the heart breaks in so many different ways that when it heals, it will have fault lines ...

To you character is a psychosis. Integrity is a complex.

But the Holy Spirit is not in a hurry. Character is the produce of a lifetime.

The Holy Spirit is not in a hurry. Character is the produce of a lifetime.

Accept suffering as a part of God's tenderizing process.

There's never any telling what you'll say or do next, except that it's bound to be something astonishing. By God, sir, you are a character.

For Aristotle, it's not enough simply to act in accordance with the reason once in a while. We must cultivate habits of virtue that develop into a firmly established moral character over a lifetime.

...I didn't want you flawless - I have a bare wall at home that's flawless - I wanted your character trapped in the amber of your skin...

...if you're an actor, and you've thought your way into the part, then you're character portrayal will have authority...

By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.

If the people who make the decisions are the people who will also bear the consequences of those decisions, perhaps better decisions will result.

But if government is in the business of promoting what is good and suppressing the bad, that is a license for it to stick it’s nose into virtually every human activity.

The choice is yours: trust the government or trust Mother Nature.

Approach the goal you’ve set with a positive, grateful attitude, and your perception about the goal and the journey will feel less like work, and more like fun.

Great leaders create memorable journeys

Great journeys live long in the memory of those who participate in them

You should have gone yourself, you ask for a Coke and they come back with orange drink. No one understands the martyrdom of the volunteers for the trip to food concession.

If a conversation is not working, then you need to make a different choice. Stop what you are doing & do something different.

Humans make their own history, but not under circumstances of their choosing.

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

While the world wasn't build for the humans, we were built for the world

Here were we wretched creatures of men making for each other's throats, and outraging the good earth which God had made so fair a habitation.

It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting anything by it.

He knew how intelligent men could be broken by the stupidity of their superiors, how weeks of patient work night and day could be cast aside by such a man

He had the nerve not to drink in a University where you proved your manhood by being drunk most of your first year.

Human beings may be inconsistent, but human nature is true to itself

Anger is temporary insanity.

The trick was not to stifle the emotions, but to control them. Love, anger, grief – all were weapons in their way, but they needed to be kept in check.

The intellectual support for UNBELIEF is about as stable as the stock market.

Atheism certainly promotes a low view of humanity- how much lower can you get than thinking yourself an accidental by-product of a series of even larger accidents!

A woman who does not guard and treasure herself cannot be of very much value to anyone else.

To him [Faraday], as to all true philosophers, the main value of a fact was its position and suggestiveness in the general sequence of scientific truth.

Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.

Reason? Justice? The forces that victimized and paralysed him now were those that had created the world. Who was he to contend against them?