John Quotes

How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a brother or sister in need and yet refuses help? Little children, let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action.

Don’t sleep with people who don’t read.

I do not wish to shed a drop of blood, but 'I must fight the course.' Tis all that's left to me.

Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.

The future is in your hearts and in your hands. God is entrusting to you the task, at once difficult and uplifting, of working with Him in the building of the civilization of love.

My biggest mistake was my best lesson... you don't learn anything when everything is going perfectly.

Slander is worse than cannibalism.

In the Christian combat, not the striker, as in the Olympic contests, but he who is struck, wins the crown. This is the law in the celestial theatre, where the Angels are the spectators.

In the anarchic world of international politics, it is better to be Godzilla than Bambi.

Exercise is really for the brain, not the body. It affects mood, vitality, alertness, and feelings of well-being.

Like a mermaid in sea-weed, she dreams awake, trembling in her soft and chilly nest.

I must go down to the sea again, to the lonely sea and the sky; and all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by.

What are the maxims of Democracy? A strict observance of justice and public faith, and a steady adherence to virtue.

You know that a majority of the medical costs that are bankrupting families, companies, and nations could be eliminated with better nutrition.

I will not kill or hurt any living creature needlessly, nor destroy any beautiful thing, but will strive to save and comfort all gentle life, and guard and perfect all natural beauty upon the earth.

The battle for conservation will go on endlessly. It is part of the universal battle between right and wrong.

In God's wildness lies the hope of the world-the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.

Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.

Nitrogen fertilizer is used on all crops produced in this country, but it is a key plant nutrient to produce corn a critical crop to Illinois farmers.

I don't do nothin’ I don't want to do.

Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

At the evening of life, we shall be judged on our love.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

The purest and most thoughtful minds are those which love colour the most.

Our health is what we make of it - give it attention and it improves, give it none and it subsides.

Be intentional to add value to every person you meet everyday.

In winter the stars seem to have rekindled their fires, the moon achieves a fuller triumph, and the heavens wear a look of a more exalted simplicity.

The longer I live, the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world.

The more he cast away, the more he had.

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

If you want to earn a million bucks a year, eliminate mediocrity from your thinking and your life.

Be purposeful. Be patient, and be active!

Every problem is an opportunity in disguise.

Those who trade liberty for security have neither.

I ... believe that angels, or something like them, sometimes live among us, hidden within our fellow human beings.

It's what you do and not what you say. If you're not part of the future, then get out of the way!

Fear is the opportunity for courage, not proof of cowardice.

It's not bringing in the new ideas that's so hard; it's getting rid of the old ones.

Grace was in all her steps, heaven in her eye, in every gesture dignity and love.

A constitution is framed for ages to come, and is designed to approach immortality as nearly as human institutions can approach it.

Life is full of surprises.

In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.

By ensuring that no one in government has too much power, the Constitution helps protect ordinary Americans every day against abuse of power by those in authority.

Where glowing embers through the room Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

Meat isn't murder, it's delicious.

How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread.

No right way is easy in this rough world. We must risk our lives to save them.

Let children walk with Nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity.