John Quotes
Christianity, sharing the Christian faith, in common, gives you instant friendship, and that is the remarkable thing, because it transcends culture.
The Founding Fathers of America never intended to stop people expressing their faith in the public square. But unfortunately that is the way it is happened.
But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.
Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote "no future for you!" Don't let the irony be lost.
Analog, electronic, whatever it happens to be, I simply love and adore literally every aspect of making music.
I liken an affair to the shattering of a Waterford crystal vase. You can glue it back together, but it will never be the same again.
I want to see us build a country that is at ease with itself, a country that is confident and a country that is able and willing to build a better quality of life for all its citizens.
Let's turn British inventions into British industries, British factories and British jobs. Let them make pounds for us, not dollars marks or yen for others.
And may the best of you - for it will only be the best of you, and even then only in the rarest and briefest moments - succeed in framing that most basic of questions, 'how do we live?'
When a law is in its nature a contract, when absolute rights have vested under that contract, a repeal of the law cannot divest those rights.
What am I, Life? A thing of watery salt Held in cohesion by unresting cells, Which work they know not why, which never halt, Myself unwitting where their Master dwells?
One blames politicians, not for inconsistency but for obstinacy. They are the interpreters, not the masters, of our fate. It is their job, in fact, to register the fact accompli.
Glory belongs to the act of being constant to something greater than yourself, to a cause, to your principles, to the people on whom you rely and who rely on you in return.
The history of missions is a history of prayer. Everything vital to the success of the world's evangelization hinges on prayer.
The moon is looking down into the canyon, and how marvelously the great rocks kindle to her light! Every dome, and brow, and swelling boss touched by her white rays, glows as if lighted with snow.
I remember writing standup jokes without having done sets. But as soon as I did my first set, it didn't matter. Everything I thought would work didn't work. And everything I was iffy on was funny.
The Reformation did not directly touch the question of the true character of God's church.
The best advice I can give you: Look unto Jesus, beholding his beauty in the written word.
All the powers of soul and body,memory, understanding, and will, interior and exterior senses, thedesires of spirit and of sense, all workin and by love.
As a tender and loving friend is grieved at the unkindness of his friend... so is it with this tender and loving Spirit, who hath chosen our hearts for a habitation to dwell in.
People change what they do less because they are given an analysis that shifts their thinking than because they are shown a truth that influences their feelings.
We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership.
Stay focused when you're playing alive, so you're not distracted by something going on.
If someone is feeling out of sorts or detached it's a great time to bring them in and restate why we are here and what we are trying to do.
We make a god out of whatever we find most joy in. So find your joy in God and be done with all idolatry.
I would much rather be found guilty of making a serious mistake in judgment, than to be accused of being even a little bit insincere.
The Universe does not compensate individuals based on the activity of work, but on the activity of consciousness.
When you pay too much, you lose a little money - that is all. When you pay too little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought is incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do.
Making one person smile can change the world - maybe not the whole world, but their world.
People who aren't artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don't have time to be inspired.
