John Quotes

If the judgement makes the law and not the law directs the judgement, it is impossible there should be such a thing as an illegal judgement given.

lIf someone tries to steal your watch, by all means fight them off. If someone sues you for your watch, hand it over and be glad you got away so lightly.

The system is religion, the law is spirituality. Take your pick.

We are not as frail as the strings would make us believe.

A tale spinner's goal is entertainment.

Storytelling is the very soul of humankind made plain for all to experience.

Be an advocate for the people and causes important to you, using the most powerful tool only you have—your personal stories.

we compose our life in stories we tell ourselves

The sheriff listened uneasily to a sound, very uncommon at elections, of the populace expressing an opinion contrary to that of the lord of the soil.

Men being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.

Democracy is like a tamborine - not everyone can be trusted with it.

Life is for running at full on, not running away from with a whimper...

There is cruelty in the world Eliza, you can see that, can't you?It surrounds us. It breathes on us. We spend our life trying to escape it.

It's never too late.

No woman will ever take care of my children but me, she said. I will not allow it, do you understand?And after I am gone Madge Toxley, if you try to make them yours, then you will live to regret it.

For of those to whom much is given, much is required

If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.

She who follows another’s course, finds a sure path to her own remorse.

God cannot force you to accept Jesus Christ because God cannot force you to reject hell. Your choices are very limited

The battle on the cross reveals just how little Satan understands God

By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another.

But was you not afraid, good sir, when you see him come with his club?""It is my duty, " said he, "to distrust mine own ability, that I may have reliance on him that is stronger than all".

God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in Him

Since the Word became flesh (John 1.14), heaven and earth remain indissolubly joined.

God's nothing more than a twelve-year-old kid with an ant farm. He's always watching, but He's never gonna do anything.

True knowledge of God is born out of obedience.

Metagapism is the belief that love is the ultimate reality, literally god and the one shared soul, and the source, nature and destiny of all.

Love isn’t self-centered, even at the supreme scale.

That which isn’t love, isn’t god.

[E]very heresy is due to an overemphasis upon some truth, without allowing other truths to qualify and balance it.

The mind is a universe and can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

The horror of Hell is an echo of the infinite worth of God's glory.

When I go to hell, I mean to carry a bribe: for look you, good gifts evermore make way for the worst persons.

She was my friend. Briefly, she was my lover. She was braver than I ever would have been in the moment of death. And I bet she was a hell of a shooting star.

O me, this place is hell.

The beauty of this world where almost everyone was gone. If hell is other people, what is a world with almost no people in it?

We must have taken a wrong turn turning somewhere.""Where, Purgatory?" said Dozy. "We're in Hell.

Nothing dies in Hell.

...You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls....

...you found me in my lonely labyrinth and like Beatrice, led me out of my own hell...

There was a lot to be said for a man’s capacity to be comfortable while alone.

I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...

When you have no future, you live in the past.

Each year's regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.

Great. I guess you're the dog whisperer, vampire edition.

When the truth finally catches up to you, don't be a hero and run.

You have no idea how much the last few days have meant to me, " I began. "Meeting you has been the best thing that's ever happened to me.

You need some coffee, don't you?""Yes, I've only had a gallon.

He was an astronaut without a suit, but he was still breathing.

I was so good at being a kid, and so terrible at being whatever I was now.