John Quotes

If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe a million, it has.

I believe in our culture we need certain socially accepted places where we don’t answer the telephone, we don’t have to answer questions or agree with anyone on anything

The stock market is a giant distraction to the business of investing.

The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver.

Nelson Mandela said: 'It always seems impossible until it's done.' Peace is possible.

Look at the subject as if you have never seen it before. Examine it from every side. Draw its outline with your eyes or in the air with your hands, and saturate yourself with it.

God help me now to preach the Word to all the dying around, and tell them how.

You do not base your belief that Jesus is the Saviour from sin upon the fact that somebody is saved, or says he is saved; but you base it upon the Word of the living God; and there you stand.

The fat you eat, is the fat you wear.

With all our horrors and faults, somewhere in us there is a shining.

The chief reason people do not know God is not because He hides from them but because they hide from Him.

Those who spend too much will eventually be owned by those who are thrifty.

Life is simply better when we are with others, and worse when we are isolated. God designed us to be connected, and life breaks down when we are not.

Men are polished, through act and speech, Each by each, As pebbles are smoothed on the rolling beach.

When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.

Singing is as much the language of holy joy as praying is of holy desire.

A democracy is ... accounted the meanest and worst of all forms of government.

Genuine tolerance does not mean ignoring differences as if differences made no difference. Genuine tolerance means engaging differences within a bond of civility and respect.

When we once begin to form good resolutions, God gives us every opportunity of carrying them out.

I know being a linesman is a thankless job, especially with guys like me around.

Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.

Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno.

Grandma's on the front porch with a Bible in her hand, sometimes I hear her singing take me to the promised land.

Human beings, like plants, grow in the soil of acceptance, not in the atmosphere of rejection.

Justice as fairness provides what we want.

I cannot see what flowers are at my feet, Nor what soft incense hangs upon the boughs, But, in embalmed darkness, guess each sweet.

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

Not every statement by a scientist is a statement of science.

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

Going to the mountains is going home.

God is sufficient in all ages for His church.

Economic theory is the most prestigious subject of instruction and study. Agricultural economics, labor economics and marketing are lower caste fields of study.

We weren't meant to be somebody--we were meant to know Somebody

Who you become while you're waiting is as important as what you're waiting for.

Don't hide bad news. With multiple information channels available, bad news always becomes known. Be candid right from the start.

True joy is the earnest which we have of heaven, it is the treasure of the soul, and therefore should be laid in a safe place, and nothing in this world is safe to place it in.

I have an intensive hatred for discrimination based on colour.

Lawyers are like nuclear weapons. By all rights they shouldn't exist, but if some people have them, then you'd better have one, too, just in case.

A man is no true Christian if he has no devotion to the Mother of Jesus Christ.

I seek no values by means of evil, nor do I surrender my values to evil.

If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one.

What type of teammates do you want to play with? Be that teammate yourself

God is not limited to any person, but calls freely whomsoever He pleases, and bestows on those who are called whatever rewards He thinks fit.

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

The result of the educative process is capacity for further education.

Miracles are creative. Healing is the restoration of what has been.

The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

When you follow the dream in your heart, you're energised, inspired, & motivated.

The United States of America does not have friends; it has interests.