John Quotes

The two limits of every unit of thinking are a perplexed, troubled, or confused situation at the beginning, and a cleared up, unified, resolved situation at the close.

Starting right now, attempt to live as if you have no regrets.

I covet solitude and storms…and rain, with its geography of dark silence and distance

I hate the very noise of troublous man Who did and does me all the harm he can. Free from the world I would a prisoner be And my own shadow all my company.

I took you to that windy hill where stars on every side fall away

you know the way of the wind in the night—the desolate alleys my soul takes

you are a ring tone on the phone I didn’t answer

...I got to love solitude - to see the Moon rise and set - I had time to watch it trace the window square across the wall in silent grace...

Patience is inversely proportional to the distance from the front of the queue.

It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply.

Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw?Oh curst Effects of necessary Law!How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan, Beware the Fury of a Patient Man.

Happiness, honor, and great estate, For those who patiently work and wait.

Shocking, sad, revealing, and deeply researched, this true account of the life and crimes of serial killer Aileen Wuornos will fascinate true-crime fans.

It is one thing to look at a mistreated boat and another to look at a tomb. The silence of the bay seemed more intense. And I could see the glint of the carrion flies.

Everybody gets to play.

I find that I keep offering God my service when what He wants is my fellowship

The Church is Christ’s witness to the world of a loving savior and His redemptive plan for man.

The Church has no reason to exist except for the advancement of His Kingdom into areasit has never been before!

Authentic leaders are often accused of being "controlling" by those who idly sit by and do nothing

Jesus did not command us to "develop" leaders. He commanded us to make "disciples". The world "develops" leaders, the Church "disciples" them. The two are not the same.

Deb and I were married on a snowy night - wind cross-wove a veil of snow for her then threw confetti at us as we left the lighted church...

The cross has two sides to it. One side is what Jesus did for us. He forgave us our sins. The other is the God side. God now lives in man!

For invented gods invariably disappoint those who worship them.

The worship of God is…the only thing which renders men superior to brutes, and makes them aspire to immortality.

We ascribe to God. We don't add to Him.

...I can think of other forms of worship than loving you, but none that make me feel so fulfilled...

...why do people venerate Einstein or Bill Gates? Clive Bell explains: Genius worship is the inevitable sign of an uncreative age....

...I worship at the temple of your body and without you, I'd have no art...

...when I chose you, I didn't want the commonplace - I didn't want a 'partner' - I wanted a shrine...

...but you - women like you are dangerous- ominous – take care, Love – men will first fear you, then later, turn you into a deity...

...childlike wonder and awe have died. The scenery and poetry and music of the majesty of God have dried up like a forgotten peach at the back of the refrigerator.

...I put you on the pedestal - made you a saint - dare I blaspheme?...

I am asked – and I’m speaking to young Canada now – are there rewards in public life? There are – not monetary but there is a tremendous satisfaction in being able to say I tried, I stood.

Don’t stop writing until someone pries the pen from your cold, dead hands.

We have to forgive to survive in this labyrinth [of suffering]

We need never to be hopeless, because we can never be irreparably broken.

How will machines know what we value if we don't know ourselves?

A democracy without values easily turns into open or thinly disguised totalitarianism.

One of these days I'm gonna beat him in the face with the butt of my service revolver until an eyeball pops out. These are the thoughts that keep me happy.

So that the smile was not so much an attitude to be taken to life as the nature of the cruelty of life, a cruelty we cannot even choose to avoid, since it is human existence.

Because they died, we know we still live. Because a star explodes and a thousand worlds like ours die, we know this world is. That is the smile: that what might not be, is.

...don't you realize a flawless profile means nothing when a mere smile drives me to desperation? Don't you covet that power?..

I felt a smile on my face. "Thanks." "For what?" "Using my name instead of calling me a thing.

Karma means ‘action’. Like many, you misunderstand its nature. Past misdeeds can be corrected before your karma ripens: it is not some pre-determined fate. It is what you do now that counts.

We all shine on...like the moon and the stars and the sun...we all shine on...come on and on and on...

If this were an indie movie, we'd start talking about the constellations, " Solomon said, looking up at the stars.

Come let us haste, the stars grow high, But night sits monarch yet in the mid sky.

We live in a universe devoted to the creation, and eradication, of awareness.

the fragrance of pine resin is frankincense poured out—a balm of stars and snow and moonlit nights

A broad and ample road, whose dust is gold, And pavement stars—as starts to thee appearSoon in the galaxy, that milky wayWhich mightly as a circling zone thou seestPowder'd wiht stars.