John Quotes

Live Aid turned our world upside down.

It is not our wealth that built our roads, but it is our roads that built our wealth.

For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation.

Time and memory are true artists; they remould reality nearer to the heart's desire.

Independent self-reliant people would be a counterproductive anachronism in the collective society of the future where people will be defined by their associations.

A fig for a care, a fig for a woe!

I always believe there's a reason why you go through everything.

Stick with your own perception of yourself-living in your own world-and letting your reality, not the reality presented by other people or particular situations, control your performance.

Every man is a warrior inside. But the choice to fight is his own.

Building up a weakness just makes you less disabled. Building a strength can take you to the top of the world.

The final test of a work of art is not whether it has beauty, but whether it has power.

In Africa, the woman was co-equal. In Europe, the woman was a vassal. To some extent, she still is.

Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts

All vital praying makes a drain on a man's vitality. True intercession is a sacrifice, a bleeding sacrifice.

May my life be like a great hospitable tree, and may weary wanderers find in me a rest.

...Prayer is not always petition, sometimes it is just communion. It is the exquisite ministry of friendship.

It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.

Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.

Who besides a degraded rabble would voluntarily present itself to be graded and classified like meat? No wonder school is compulsory.

But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

In response to the challenge of strangers, sport arose as a sublimated representation of a community's armed might as well as its pride of place and clan.

The days are short, The sun a spark Hung thin between The dark and dark.

Give the American people a good cause, and there's nothing they can't lick.

The hyphenated American is ridiculous. But that's what we have to put up with. I think that any person that's in the United States is better off here than they would be where they came from.

It cannot be that the people should grow in grace unless they give themselves to reading. A reading people will always be a knowing people.

You must be interested in finding the best way, not in having your own way.

Conduct is more convincing than language.

Playing sport has become very important today, since it can encourage young people to develop important values such as loyalty, perseverance, friendship, sharing and solidarity.

Jesus himself has shown us by his own example that prayer and fasting are the first and most effective weapons against the forces of evil.

Do not be afraid to be holy! Have the courage and humility to present yourselves to the world determined to be holy, since full, true freedom is born from holiness.

Gandhi was much more Christian than many people who say they are Christians.

Prayer is the root, the fountain, the mother of a thousand blessings.

I've always been underestimated. It's happened throughout my entire career.

You are always new. The last of your kisses was even the sweetest; the last smile the brightest; the last movement the gracefullest.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.

It is true that I must run a great risk; no gallant action was ever accomplished without danger.

Pay attention to the vital few and ignore the trivial many.

I know pretty well what evidence is, and I tell you, such evidence as that for the resurrection has never broken down yet.

Jail was preferable. There they only limited you physically. In a mental ward they tampered with your soul and worldview and mind.

The balancing of the budget will not in itself place a teaspoonful of milk in a hungry baby's stomach, or remove the rags from its mother's back.

I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

I want to block some common misunderstandings about "understanding": In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word "understanding."

Oh, night that guided me, Oh, night more lovely than the dawn,Oh, night that joined Beloved with lover, Lover transformed in the Beloved!

Obedience is a penance of reason, and, on that account, a sacrifice more acceptable than all corporal penances and mortifications.

You can't be No. 1 unless you think like No. 1. You have to appear like No. 1.

A good man knows when to sacrifice himself, a bad man survives but loses his soul.

I hitchhiked, took trucks 'n' trains - anything that would pick me up. I stopped in Memphis for about six months and they found me and come got me. Stayed about a month an' split again.

If a relationship is going to work, it will require compromise and, even then, it is not always going to end the way you want it to.

I was a pretty feisty young kid.