John Quotes

A meek spirit gives no trouble willingly to any: a quiet spirit bears all wrongs without being troubled.

Until my work on this earth is done, I am immortal. But when my work for Christ is done ... I go to be with Jesus

Probems must be resolved at the level beneath the one at which they occur.

Four years after the death of Justinian, A.D. 569, was born at Mecca, in Arabia the man who, of all men exercised the greatest influence upon the human race . . . Mohammed . . .

Deeds, not words shall speak to me.

If you do enough small things right, big things can happen

When opportunity comes it is too late to prepare.

Don't whine, complain, or make excuses.

Happiness begins where selfishness ends.

The team is the star, never an individual player.

I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God, and now, in the thirty-sixth year of my age, I begin this work.

Expect the dawn of a new beginning in the dark nights of life.

The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery...is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind.

Christ is the sacrament of the invisible God - a sacrament that indicates presence. God is with us.

What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return

Born poor, but of honored and humble people, I am particularly proud to die poor.

I believe love is what makes the world go round. No matter how old or young, love is why we are here. It is the very essence of one's being.

I love that quiet time when nobody's up and the animals are all happy to see me.

Where orthodoxy is optional, orthodoxy will sooner or later be proscribed.

Nothing causes us to so nearly resemble God as the forgiveness of injuries.

What greater work is there than training the mind and forming the habits of the young?

Just as those who are deprived of light cannot walk straight, so also those who do not behold the ray of the Holy Scriptures must necessarily sin, since they walk in the deepest darkness.

Before they committed the crime of crimes, before they killed their Master, before the cross, before the slaying of Christ, [Jewish sacrifices were] an abomination.

I must judge for myself, but how can I judge, how can any man judge, unless his mind has been opened and enlarged by reading.

Do not despise your own place and hour. Every place is under the stars, every place is the center of the world.

Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life.

Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos… to celebrate a world that lies spread out around us like a bewildering and stupendous dream.

We tend to be preoccupied by our problems when we have a heightened sense of vulnerability and a diminished sense of power. Today, see each problem as an invitation to prayer.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

Long is the way and hard, that out of Hell leads up to light.

It's better to be one who is told to wait than one who waits to be told.

The whole world is my family.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

Fortitude is the guard and support of the other virtues.

And it is always Easter Sunday at the New York City Ballet. It is always coming back to life. Not even coming back to life - it lives in the constant present.

The value of the majority lies not in the opportunity to wield great power, but in the chance to use power to do great things.

Chance doesn't mean meaningless randomness, but historical contingency. This happens rather than that, and that's the way that novelty, new things, come about.

Art is the triumph over chaos.

I see myself and many artists like me as the torchbearers through these dark ages.

The first condition of education is being able to put someone to wholesome and meaningful work.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

Homesickness is nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time.

In many cases, jobs that used to be done by people are going to be able to be done through automation. I don't have an answer to that. That's one of the more perplexing problems of society.

An entrepreneur must pitch a potential investor for what the company is worth as well as sell the dream on how much of a profit can be made.

Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty.

You can make money or you can make excuses. Your choice.