John Quotes

Bid for connection: Each of our daily interactions with another person.

As long as we're dependent on those fossil fuels, we're dependent on the Middle East. If we are not victims, we're certainly captives.

Education is not a luxury in modern American society-it is essential for survival.

To those we love best we say the least

Where love fails we espy all faults.

Success is the brand on the brow of the man who aimed too low.

Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long back on itself recoils.

No man, with a man's heart in him gets far on his way without some bitter, soul-searching disappointment. Happy is he who is brave enough to push on to another stage of the journey.

I was a close observer of the developments in molecular biology.

Each child is sent into this world by God with a "Unique Message" to deliver, a new personal act of love to bestow

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

I cannot speak but I am doubted, every moment judged for lies, as though I come into a court when I come into this house!

Do that which is good, and no harm shall come to thee.

Let you look to your own improvement before you go to judge your husband anymore.

America is a friend of freedom everywhere, but a custodian only of our own.

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse.

You see how fake it all is. It's not even hard enough to be made out of plastic. It's a paper town.

The reason for the slow progress of the world seems to lie in a single fact. Every man is born under the yoke, and grows up beneath the oppressions of his age.

There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures.

As an actor, it's great to play a strong leader with a heart of gold.

That was a real fireball.

Envy is a kind of praise.

It's not that I don't suffer, it's that I know the unimportance of suffering.

If you want easy, don't pick fashion.

There is no group or type of people anywhere in the world that is excluded from salvation, because God desires that the gospel be proclaimed to all without exception.

By predestination we mean the eternal decree of God, by which He determined with Himself whatever He wished to happen with regard to every man

Free-will cannot will good and of necessity serves sin.

Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.

Let this be our rule for goodwill and helpfulness, that whenever we are able to assist others we should behave as stewards who must someday give an account of ourselves.

Doubtful prayer is no prayer at all.

Incivility is the extreme of pride; it is built on the contempt of mankind.

For astronomy is not only pleasant, but also very useful to be known: it cannot be denied that this art unfolds the admirable wisdom of God.

For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.

To search for wisdom apart from Christ means not simply foolhardiness but utter insanity.

To me music is the centre of the universe and the voice of the spirits and the voice of God and the voice of all the people who have lived and died...At least the ones I'm connected to.

I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk.

judge not that ye be not judged

I'm alone and outgunned, scared and inexperienced, but I'm right.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

I long for scenes where man has never trod;... There to abide with my Creator, God.

Nothing will stop you being creative more effectively as the fear of making a mistake.

No hope for planet at all. But I will be gone before the planet is gone, so it's your problem.

The World is insane. With tiny spots of sanity, here and there... Not the other way around!

As long as anger lives, it continues to be the fruitful parent of many unhappy children.

One word of God can do more than ten thousand words of men to relieve a distressed soul.

The sky is the source of light in Nature and it governs everything.

If we want to build the Iraqis' confidence about our intentions in their country, if we want to stop adding fuel to the fire of insurgency and terrorism, we must clarify our intent.

As they used to say on Stingray, ‘Anything can happen in the next half hour’. I’ve always tried to live with that thought in mind.

The French Revolution is the ultimate modernist statement. Destroy everything. Don't build on the past. There is no past.

You are nobody, and I might have been somebody, and the road to each of us is love.