John Quotes

A low view of law always produces legalism; a high view of law makes a person a seeker after grace.

Live your life the way you want. You'll figure it out.

I earned my first steady paycheck watering rose bushes at a nursery for a dollar an hour.

He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place.

A man that lives on pork, fine-flour bread, rich pies and cakes, and condiments, drinks tea and coffee, and uses tobacco, might as well try to fly as to be chaste in thought.

It is in the field of prayer that life's critical battles are lost or won...In prayer we bring our spiritual enemies into the Presence of God and we fight them there.

My challenge was to weave into the fabric of American history enough of the presence of blacks so that the story of the United States could be told adequately and fairly.

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

I thank all of those who weren't born in this country for coming here and making a contribution to Australia. We are the least discriminatory country in the world, in my view.

Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deliberately located people in a ghetto situation in order to ensure that they maintained control.

Mathematics was hard, dull work, I thought; geography pleased me more. For my other studies, as well as for dancing, I was quite enthusiastic.

Create something people want to share.

If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.

We have the means of evangelizing our country, but they are slumbering in the pews of our churches.

If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.

I’ve come to the point of view that for European-American society and culture to persist requires a European-American majority, and a clear one at that.

What's gotten in the way of education in the United States is a theory of social engineering that says there is ONE RIGHT WAY to proceed with growing up.

It's self-centered to think that human beings, as limited as we are, can describe divinity.

It's been a tough season for all of us, but all we can do is keep fighting and showing character to the end of the season

Lust and learning. That's really all there is, isn't it?

They’re called poems but in reality they’re lines given to me to hang on to

Substantive and procedural law benefits and protects landlords over tenants, creditors over debtors, lenders over borrowers, and the poor are seldom among the favored parties.

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better.

I feel I can fit with any player in the world.

It started with a simple ring, You became husband and wife, You progressed to being parents And you're still best friends for life.

Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.

Suffer all, and conquer all.

It is important to be biblically literate, but we must also be biblically obedient!

Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.

American soldiers had to guard prisoners on the inside while receiving mortar and weapons fire from the outside. Guantanamo is distant from any battlefield, making it far more secure.

The more the society becomes a technological society, the less it has to hold itself together.

Have no fear of moving into the unknown.

Every trace of the old philosophy and literatureof the ancient world has vanished from the face of the earth.

I want a brighter word than bright

The feel of not to feel it, When there is none to heal it Nor numbed sense to steel it.

A Jap's a Jap. There is no way to determine their loyalty... This coast is too vulnerable. No Jap should come back to this coast except on a permit from my office.

Nothing affected me until I heard Elvis. Without Elvis there would be no Beatles.

I don't believe in yesterday, by the way.

There is a time to let things happen, and a time to make things happen." "Life is what happens when you are making other plans.

It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out.

The reward for playing jazz is playing jazz.

I've said it in the past and I'll say it again today: the vote is precious; it's almost sacred.

We're not questioning the legitimacy of the outcome of the election. You didn't have Republicans questioning whether or not [Barack] Obama legitimately beat John McCain in 2008.

The important thing is not so much that every child should be taught, as that every child should be given the wish to learn.

U2 - that's a band that never should have existed. There's no life experience in any of their songs.

In the long run, the power of kindness can redeem beyond the power of force to destroy. There is a vast reservoir of kindness that we can no longer afford do disregard.

When its raining the field gets wet, then all of a sudden everyones running slower

I wasn't saying that in a sense that I didn't plan on scoring any goals. This won't happen again. It would be nice if it did, but it's reality.

I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.

I have a huge admiration for the House of Lords, I have a huge admiration for the people who work in the House of Lords, they're great public servants and they do an absolutely tremendous job.