John Quotes

The Scriptures obtain full authority among believers only when men regard them as having sprung from heaven, as if there the living words of God were heard.

People get God and religion confused. I think God is a bit too hip to join any of his unauthorized fan clubs.

It's my dream to make music that can make people feel like they're flying

Though the singer is silent…there is still the truth of the song.

A master lives in the world of transformation, not the world of loss and gain.

I found the poems in the fields And only wrote them down

What is the good news to the poor? Christ took your poverty at the cross and gave you the riches of Abraham. The chains of poverty have been broken at the cross.

I never placed my head upon the pillow at night without reminding myself that my success might only be temporary.

Obedience is the burial of the will and the resurrection of humility.

When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

Its never to late to get back on your feet though we wont live forever make sure you accomplish what you were put here for

If we are to feel the positive feelings of love, happiness, trust, and gratitude, we periodically also have to feel anger, sadness, fear, and sorrow.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

Anytime someone says your God is ugly and you release your God and join their God, there is no hope for your freedom until you once more believe in your own concept of the 'deity.'

The summer demands and takes away too much. /But night, the reserved, the reticent, gives more than it takes

Your success stops where your character stops. You can never rise above the limitations of your character.

It's good to be out of your comfort zone. Just don't step out of your gift zone.

Your talk talks and your walk talks, but your walk talks louder than your talk talks.

It is our decisions not our conditions that determine our quality of life.

Don't ask me when I first mastered the obvious.

One leak will sink a ship: and one sin will destroy a sinner.

True honor is an outflow from a heart that fears God.

We must always keep in mind all legitimate authority is from God, and is given for protection, provision, and peace.

Talent is cheap, you have to be possessed or obsessed, rather. You really have to feel like you cannot not do art, and that is something you can't will.

I think art, if it's meaningful at all, is a conversation with other artists. You say something, they say something, you move back and forth.

We are not only observers. We are participators. In some strange sense this is aparticipatory universe.

Something invisible snapped inside her.

If people were like rain, I was like drizzle and she was a hurricane.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

There can be no dedication to Canada's future without a knowledge of its past.

The material of music is sound and silence. Integrating these is composing.

Holiness is not a merit by which we can attain communion with God, but a gift of Christ, which enables us to cling to him, and to follow him.

The Lord has given us a table at which to feast, not an altar on which a victim is to be offered; He has not consecrated priests to make sacrifice, but servants to distribute the sacred feast.

Simply having children does not make mothers.

The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.

If you are having the right kind of spiritual fellowship, you will have power with God, and there is no escaping it!

What's in a question, you ask? Everything. It is evoking stimulating response or stultifying inquiry. It is, in essence, the very core of teaching.

An artist can accomplish anything provided he doesn't accept facts or defeat for more than a few minutes.

I never back down and I never quit!

Vickie is so fat that her baby pictures were taken via satellite.

In nation after nation, democracy has taken the place of autocracy.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

Those who live by the Qur'an have a scriptural mandate to kill Christians and Jews... it teaches that very clearly.

Save when you can and not when you have to.

Who is the poorest man in the world? I tell you, the poorest man I know of is the man who has nothing but money.

Light - dews - breezes - bloom - and freshness; not one of which... has yet been perfected on the canvas of any painter in the world.