John Quotes

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

I felt I did trust in Christ, Christ alone for salvation, and an assurance was given me that he had taken away my sins, even mine, and saved me from the law of sin and death.

My imagination will get me a passport to hell one day.

Time is the only critic without ambition.

Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden, knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts.

Computers don't create computer animation any more than a pencil creates pencil animation. What creates computer animation is the artist.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

Fortune befriends the bold.

Life is filled with rhythms-day and night, hot and cold, summer and winter, spring and fall, cloudy and clear. Likewise in a relationship, men and women have their own rhythms and cycles.

Value judgments are destructive to our proper business, which is curiosity and awareness.

We move in response to our conversation partner’s face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic.

Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.

It's better to prepare than to repair.

The gift of perfume to a flower is a special grace like genius or like beauty, and never becomes common or cheap.

I never wanted to fight against the Union, but could not turn my back on Virginia.

I think every family should have a dog; it is like having a perpetual baby; it is the plaything and crony of the whole house. It keeps them all young.

There's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them.

Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can’t easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).

A compliance with the minutiae of military courtesy is a mark of well-disciplined troops.

No man preaches his sermon well to others if he does not first preach it to his own heart.

The premise upon which mass compulsion schooling is based is dead wrong. It tries to shoehorn every style, culture, and personality into one ugly boot that fits nobody.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.

All we know about the world teaches us that the effects of A and B are always different-in some decimal place-for any A and B. Thus asking "are the effects different?" is foolish.

Almighty God sends no trial without consolation.

True success is figuring out your life and career so you never have to be around jerks.

Bring me a worm that can comprehend a man, and then I will show you a man that can comprehend the Triune God.

It is the work of God alone to justify, to sanctify, and to glorify.

An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count.

Borg's won Wimbledon four straight times and out there he has just lost an 18-16 tie breaker. You'd think maybe once he'd let up and say forget it. But oh, no way.

I remember feeling for the first time going somewhere where I was part of a community where I didn't feel like an outcast. I felt like I belonged. Everyone had a guitar strapped to their back.

Obviously the best way to retain the most profit is to not give any of it away. That's something that you certainly learn through the years.

Bowl of oatmeal tried to stare me down... and won.

States care about relative wealth, because economic might is the foundation of military might.

I come from Cyberspace, the new home of Mind. On behalf of the future, I ask you of the past to leave us alone. You are not welcome among us. You have no sovereignty where we gather.

Pain throws your heart to the ground Love turns the whole thing around Fear is a friend who's misunderstood But I know the heart of life is good

Whenever they say it can’t be done, remind them that they make a jellybean that tastes exactly like popcorn.

Nothing profits more than self-esteem, grounded on what is just and right.

God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show.

Justice goes across racial and economic barriers - like the good Samaritan.

I find that when I tell lawyer jokes to a mixed audience, the lawyers don't think they're funny and the non-lawyers don't think they're jokes.

Dance as though no one is watching. Love as though you've never been hurt. Sing as though no one can hear you. Live as though heaven is on earth.

To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

Oh, Fortuna, blind, heedless goddess, I am strapped to your wheel,' Ignatius belched, 'Do not crush me beneath your spokes. Raise me on high, divinity.

Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods.

Few are altogether deaf to the preaching of pine trees. Their sermons on the mountains go to our hearts . . .

The people have the power. All we have to do is awaken the power in the people.

I don't think about time. You're here when you're here. I think about today, staying in tune.

May we catch enough of a vision of Christ that we will not be satisfied unless we know him more fully.