John Quotes

We cannot heal what we cannot feel.

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

And so we turn the page over. To think of starting. This is all there is.

No phenomenon is a real phenomenon until it is an observed phenomenon.

I want to give up being a bullet I've been a bullet too long The question is Can you give up being a killer?

It will be celebrated... with pomp and parade... bonfires and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

People with HIV are still stigmatized. The infection rates are going up. People are dying. The political response is appalling. The sadness of it, the waste.

Maybe ever'body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.

God does not love us because Christ died for us; Christ died for us because God loved us.

It is no exaggeration to say that without Scripture a Christian life is impossible.

For those properly prepared, the bear market is not only a calamity but an opportunity.

A doctor today would never prescribe the treatments my grandfather used in the Confederate Army, but a minister says pretty much the same thing today that a minister would have said back then.

If I was a criminal, stationery stores and bakeries would be the two kinds of places I would concentrate on.

A slighted woman knows no bounds.

I feel like I have to step on the court every night and be dominant.

Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave?

My one aim in life is to secure personal holiness, for without being holy myself I cannot promote real holiness in others.

We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore.

The more concerned we become over the things we can't control, the less we will do with the things we can control

God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?

The Rosary is a school for learning true Christian perfection.

One must never underestimate the profound bigotry and anti-intellectualism and intolerance and illiberality of liberalism.

Everybody loves success, but they hate successful people.

Genuine brokenness pleases God more than pretend spirituality.

Congress never loses its capacity to disappoint you.

Leave all human injustices to the Lord, for God is the Judge, but as to yourself, be diligent in loving everybody with a pure heart.

Now all things have been filled with light, both heaven and earth and those beneath the earth; so let all creation sing Christ's rising, by which it is established.

Rocks are records of events that took place at the time they formed. They are books. They have a different vocabulary, a different alphabet, but you learn how to read them.

In making war with nature, there was risk of loss in winning.

Prosperity cannot be a proof of God's favor, since it is what the devil promises to those who worship him. (Matt. 4:9)

I used to think it was clever to confuse comedy with tragedy. Now I wish I could distinguish them.

Blackmail is more effective than bribery.

I remember back in Detroit, I used to go to the Apex Bar every night after I got off work. The bartender there used to call me Boom Boom. I don't know why, but he did.

I go farther, and say, that it is plainly our duty to desire pastors and teachers to take the care of such congregations, and that God did raise up such in the church as we see it in the word.

You won't get anything unless you have the vision to imagine it.

paranoia is just a heightened sense of awareness

Eternal sunrise, eternal sunset, eternal dawn and gloaming, on seas and continents and islands, each in its turn, as the round earth rolls.

Beauty is God's handwriting-a wayside sacrament.

Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.

Believe and be confirmed.

Do not think of your faults, still less of other's faults; look for what is good and strong, and try to imitate it. Your faults will drop off, like dead leaves, when their time comes.

People are eternally divided into two classes, the believer, builder, and praiser...and the unbeliever, destroyer and critic.

No individual rain drop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

Well, I have concerns about the effectiveness of Europe to compete.

Yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible.

Here's a guy who can use his arms and legs at the same time.

From restless thoughts, that, like a deadly swarm Of hornets arm'd, no sooner found alone, But rush upon me thronging.

The mountain nymph, sweet Liberty.