John Quotes
Those who submit to the Lord with simple heart will run the good race. If they keep their minds on a leash, they will not draw the wickedness of the demons onto themselves.
The sound of water escaping from mill-dams, etc., willows, old rotten planks, slimy posts, and brickwork.those scenes made me a painter and I am grateful.
I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.
The basis of peace and stability, in any society, has to be the fullest respect for the human rights of all its people.
People who say they're too busy to have lunch have a false impression of their own importance.
The writing of history reflects the interests, predilections, and even prejudices of a given generation.
Dr. King once said, "You cannot legislate goodness, and you cannot pass a law to force someone to respect you. The only way to social justice, in a capitalist country, is through economic parity."
Do more and understand that all wealth came from poor people either as the entrepreneurs or the consumers who buy the product that keeps the entrepreneurs in business.
If you are all open in your heart, you are clean. If you are all open in your self, you are naive.
I hear it said that West Berlin is militarily untenable - and so was Bastogne, and so, in fact, was Stalingrad. Any danger spot is tenable if men - brave men - will make it so.
We believe that if men have the talent to invent new machines that put men out of work, they have the talent to put those men back to work.
The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution.
The crosses with which our path through life is strewn associate us with Jesus in the mystery of His crucifixion.
The second stage set in ten or fifteen days after the bombing. The main symptom was falling hair. Diarrhoea and fever, which in some cases went as high as 106, came next.
What gets measured gets done, what gets measured and fed back gets done well, what gets rewarded gets repeated
If people do not know where they have been and what they have been they don't know what they are. They don't know where they going to have to go or where they still have to be.
To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.
Love works a different way in different minds, the fool it enlightens and the wise it blinds.
My father was very much a handy person round the house, and I learnt a lot of carpentry from him.
If we do not catch men, we are in great danger of losing even the desire to catch them. Our purposed activity is in peril of becoming a dream.
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.
If a man ordered a beer milk shake, he thought, he'd better do it in a town where he wasn't known.
I have sometimes called this 'double listening'. Listening to the voice of God in Scripture, and listening to the voices of the modern world, with all their cries of anger, pain and despair.
The four most expensive words in the English language are, 'This time it's different.'
The caliber of play suffered and attendance declined year by year. Interest in college football was exploding, and there was this new game called basketball.
Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity.
Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!
It's kind of a sad thing when a normal love of country makes you a super patriot. I do think we have a pretty wonderful country, and I thank God that He chose me to live here.