John Quotes

Two increasing themes which appear to dominate our listening, reading and watching lives are propaganda and 'national security', or manufactured war.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

Civil liberty can be established on no foundation of human reason which will not at the same time demonstrate the right of religious freedom.

The only problem facing you in life is the belief in separation from your Source. Solve that one and all the other ones will vanish.

The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.

The heart is the first part that quickens, and the last that dies.

How do you prevent a little sociopath from becoming a big, full-blown sociopath? Sit on him.

If you want knowledge, you must toil for it; if food, you must toil for it; and if pleasure, you must toil for it: toil is the law.

Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know in life.

Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety.

I ... look at Jesus and see a humanity open to all that God is--open to life, open to love and open to being.

A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unless he were in a blinding light or in the dusk or dark.

Nothing is given to you. You're going to have to work for it.

The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.

Whoever shall now contend that it is unjust to put heretics and blasphemers to death will knowingly and willingly incur their very guilt.

...nothing good can proceed from our will until it be formed again, and that after it is formed again in so far as it is good, it is of God, and not of us.

In our good works nothing is our own.

If grace acts in us, grace, and not we who do the work, will be crowned.

Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?

Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God.

If the gospel be not preached, Jesus Christ is, as it were, buried.

Sometimes, the elegant implementation is just a function. Not a method. Not a class. Not a framework. Just a function.

To me there is a name for each person. I think it’s marvelous to have a name. A woman is not a woman. It’s either Gena or my mother or some other person.

For me, I don't go in the backdoor. That's the one thing I don't do.

Ahhh, Wade. Wade, you're just so stupid.

Often the Lord heals vainglory by dishonor.

I want to be the force which is truly for good.

An artist who is self-taught is taught by a very ignorant person indeed.

Your style is who you are when you’re not trying to be clever or better than you actually are.

If the cards are stacked against you, reshuffle the deck.

A nonreader is somebody standing there in a blindfold.

Be sure that you are not deceiving yourself at any time about actual conditions.

High level womanness occurs and is freed when the filters and the boundaries in your womanness are no longer of use to you. As a woman you then move as your own Being.

Kiss me, and smile for me, tell me that you'll wait for me. Hold me like you'll never let me go.

To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.

Education is life itself.

Death is an ascension to a better library.

To roam Giddily, and be everywhere but at home, Such freedom doth a banishment become.

As peace is of all goodness, so war is an emblem, a hieroglyphic, of all misery.

And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

He look'd in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.

Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.

Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars.

If I don't have a woman every three days or so I get a terrible headache.

A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve.

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

Climate change is real. The science is compelling. And the longer we wait, the harder the problem will be to solve.

You just don't invade another country on phony pretext in order to assert your interests!

Regeneration expresses those supernatural, divine, new qualities imparted by the Spirit to the soul, which are the principle of all holy action.