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The first reason is their majesty and their associated arrogance (Is 13:11, 19), which fits with the earlier critique of Assyria and of Judah itself (cf. also Is 16:6).
— John Goldingay
The passages also offer an assurance that God has such resistance under control and will ultimately overwhelm it.
— John Goldingay
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.
— John F. Kennedy
The men who create power make an indispensable contribution to the Nations greatness, but the men who question power make a contribution just as indispensable, especially when that questioning is disinterested, for they determine whether we use power or power uses us.
— John F. Kennedy
Separation from the world is the gateway to spiritual power and blessing. The man who walks with God always reaches his destination!
— John Hagee
And it happened, as they fled before Israel .. that the Lord cast down large hailstones from heaven on them... and they [five armies] died. There were more who died from the hailstones than the children of Israel killed with the sword. (JOSHUA 10:11)
— John Hagee
The Greek word used to translate the Aramaic word for meekness, which Jesus used in the Prophetic Blessing, was the word used for an animal that had been tamed and brought under the control of the bit and reins of its master. Meekness is power under control!
— John Hagee
It does not require many words to speak the truth. Words can make a deeper scar than silence can ever heal. Kind words are short to speak, but their echoes are endless.
— John Hagee
To holy people the very name of Jesus is a name to feed upon, a name to transport. His name can raise the dead and transfigure and beautify the living.
— John Henry Newman
Cease, stranger, cease those witching notes, The art of syren choirs; Hush the seductive voice that floats Across the trembling wires. Music's ethereal power was given Not to dissolve our clay, But draw Promethean beams from heaven To purge the dross away.
— John Henry Newman
Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
— John Knox
The man who stands with God is always in the majority.
— John Knox