John Quotes
I learned really to practice mustard seed faith and positive thinking and remarkable things happened.
It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.
God be kind to all good Samaritans and also bad ones. For such is the kingdom of heaven.
No heart thrives without much secret converse with God and nothing will make amends for the want of it.
Prayer is the great engine to overthrow and rout my spiritual enemies the great means to procure the graces of which I stand in hourly need.
The main lesson about prayer is just this: Do it! Do it! Do it! You want to be taught to pray? My answer is: pray.
Prayer is not artful monologue Of voice uplifted from the son It is Love's tender dialogue Between the soul and God.
Prayer should be short without giving God Almighty reasons why He should grant this or that He knows best what is good for us.
You are coming to a King Large petitions with you bring For his grace and power are such None can ever ask too much.
No answer to prayer is an indication of our merit every answer to prayer is an indication of God's mercy.
Beyond our utmost wants His love and power can bless To praying souls he always grants More than they can express.
I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.
More and more these days I find myself pondering on how to reconcile my net income with my gross habits.
The race to which we belong is the most arrogant and rapacious the most exclusive and indomitable in history. All other races have been its enemies or its victims.
'Tis expectation makes a blessing dear heaven were not heaven if we knew what it were.
Good and bad luck is a synonym in the great majority of instances for good and bad judgment.
I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted-if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.
The road to happiness lies in two simple principles: find what interests you and that you can do well and put your whole soul into it-every bit of energy and ambition and natural ability you have.
When men are rightfully occupied then their amusement grows out of their work as the color petals out of a fruitful garden.
The weakest among us has a gift however seemingly trivial which is peculiar to him and which worthily used will be a gift also to his race.
For of all sad words of tongues or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.
Italians come to ruin most generally in three ways - women gambling and farming. My family chose the slowest one.
I must go down to the seas again to the lonely sea and the sky And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.
One's self-image is very important because if that's in good shape then you can do anything or practically anything.
