John Quotes

What turns ordinary people into overachievers is the way they use their minds when they are called on to perform.

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history.

If we can reawaken that fierce quality in a man, hook it up to a higher purpose, release the warrior within, then the boy can grow up and become truly masculine.

The ... challenge of Christmas is this: justice is what happens when all receive a fair share of God's world and only such distributive justice can establish peace on earth.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

We first make our habits, and then our habits make us.

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

Greatness in the kingdom of God is measured in terms of obedience.

A skillful photographer can photograph anything well.

An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth - love and prayer.

I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.

Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.

Sin is the assassin of the soul.

You're not gonna be known as nothing if you don't win.

The main thing I do is to carry myself as best as I can on my pro level.

Nobody ever saw a cowboy on the psychiatrist's couch.

I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women

Republic. I like the sound of the word. It means people can live free, talk free, go or come, buy or sell, be drunk or sober, however they choose. Some words give you a feeling.

The greater the share the people have in government, the less liberty, civil or religious, does a nation enjoy.

Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree.

Bear up the hands that hang down, by faith and prayer; support the tottering knees. Have you any days of fasting and prayer? Storm the throne of grace and persevere therein, and mercy will come down.

Love is the bond of perfection.

Make sure that team members know they are working with you, not for you.

We don’t have to be superstars or win championships…. All we have to do is learn to rise to every occasion, give our best effort, and make those around us better as we do it.

Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure.

The Eucharist is the heart of the Church. Where Eucharistic life flourishes, there the life of the church will blossom.

From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others

Do not be afraid to be saints. Follow Jesus Christ who is the source of freedom and light. Be open to the Lord so that He may lighten all your ways.

Feast of Gregory, Bishop of Nyssa, & his sister Macrina, Teachers, c.394 & c.379 Humility is the root, mother, nurse, foundation, and bond of all virtue.

I am John Proctor! You will not use me! It is no part of salvation that you should use me!

If it were given to a man to see virtue's reward in the next world, he would occupy his intellect, memory and will in nothing but good works, careless of danger or fatigue.

He who interrupts the course of his spiritual exercises and prayer is like a man who allows a bird to escape from his hand; he can hardly catch it again.

The soul that journey's to God, but doesn't shake off it's cares and quiet it's appetities, is like someone who drags a cart of dirt uphill.

When you get saved, you get saved not because you deserve it, but because you simply let God save you and because you confess your own poor sinful state and your inability to save yourself.

Christmas: the Son of God expressing the love of God to save us from the wrath of God so we could enjoy the presence of God.

The military value of a partisan's work is not measured by the amount of property destroyed, or the number of men killed or captured, but by the number [of the enemy which] he keeps watching [him].

Fill your affections with the cross of Christ that there may be no room for sin.

There is no death of sin without the death of Christ.

The artist's role isn't to tell people how to feel, but reflect.

An intolerant sect has no right to complain when it is denied an equal liberty... A person's right to complain is limited to principles he acknowledges himself.

This is the centre of the gospel - this is what the Garden of Gethsemane and Good Friday are all about - that God has done astonishing and costly things to draw us near.

You can't always see both sides of the story. Eventually, you have to pick a side and stick with it. No more equivocating. You have to commit.

That which is creative must create itself.

Plants are like people: they're all different and a little bit strange.

The federal government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise only the powers granted to it . . . is now universally admitted.

A culture truly changes only when a new way of operating has been shown to succeed over some minimum period of time.

The reservedness and distance that fathers keep, often deprive their sons of that refuge which would be of more advantage to them than an hundred rebukes or chidings.

The actual flower is the plant's highest fulfilment, and are not here exclusively for herbaria, county floras and plant geography: they are here first of all for delight.

Abash'd the Devil stood, And felt how awful goodness is.

A country of long shadows on county cricket grounds, warm beer, green suburbs, dog lovers, and old maids cycling to holy communion through the morning mist.