John Quotes
The Rosary is a magnificent and universal prayer for the needs of the Church, the nations and the entire world.
Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself, as far as that is possible; for it is charity which makes the man.
Great leaders are not defined by the absence of weakness, but rather by the presence of clear strengths.
We are creating a world where anyone, anywhere may express his or her beliefs, no matter how singular, without fear of being coerced into silence or conformity.
May this be the year that things go your way most of the time, and when they don't, may you have great friends to lean on.
I just wish they'd put a new word in the dictionary bigger than love because love just doesn't describe what I feel.
An unlimited power to tax involves, necessarily, a power to destroy; because there is a limit beyond which no institution and no property can bear taxation.
Kind hearts are the garden, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the blossoms, kind deeds are the fruit.
Races don't fall in love, genders don't fall in love: Individuals fall in love. We all should be free to marry the person that we love.
I don't dig beneath the surface for things that don't appear before my own eyes.
The one thing the blues don't get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hears. They choke stuff down people's throat so they got no choice but to listen to it.
You get one pass at life. That’s all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.
I think the greatest single enemy is the misuse of information, the perversion of truth in the hands of terribly skillful people.
People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in.
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource.
Truth is a tyrant-the only tyrant to whom we can give our allegiance. The service of truth is a matter of heroism.
It is very important to remember what other people tell you, not so much what you yourself already know.
Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born.
To me luxury is to be at home with my daughter, and the occasional massage doesn't hurt.
I believe that everyone chooses how to approach life. If you're proactive, you focus on preparing. If you're reactive, you end up focusing on repairing.
To run and work the law commands, but gives us neither feet nor hands. But better news the gospel brings, it bids us fly and gives us wings.
To hate is to study, to study is to understand, to understand is to appreciate, to appreciate is to love. So maybe I'll end up loving your theory.
The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.
When fortune empties her chamber pot on your head, smile and say We are going to have a summer shower.
If Roger stopped right now and never won another match, to me he'd already be one of the greatest players to ever play the game. To me, he's the greatest all around talent that I've ever seen.
Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse.
Unemployment is sky-rocketing; deflation is in our future for the first time since the Great Depression. I don't care whose fault it is, it's the truth.
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assault of thoughts on the unthinking.
When autumn comes, it doesn't ask. It just walks in, where it left you last. And you never know, when it starts; until there's fog inside the glass around your summer heart.
To obtain a just compromise, concession must not only mutual-it must be equal also....There can be no hope that either will yield more than it gets in return.
Quantum theory also tells us that the world is not simply objective; somehow it's something more subtle than that. In some sense it is veiled from us, but it has a structure that we can understand.
