Quotes about John
Oh god, I'd just hate it if a certain dramaturg got a hold of a Pinter play, for example, which are all mystery and all music. That's how the life get's sucked out of plays.
— John Guare
We cannot reform the world.... Uncle Sugar is as dangerous a role for us to play as Uncle Shylock.
— John F. Kennedy
At Clavison the mayor prohibited the Protestants the practice of singing the Psalms commonly used in the temple, that, as he said, the Catholics might not be offended or disturbed.
— John Foxe
The spring that brims and ripples oh I know in dark of night.
— John of the Cross
as John Calvin rightly said, the human heart is an idol factory.
— Mark Driscoll
His words… like so many nimble and airy servitors trip about him at command.
— John Milton
Into a limbo large and broad, since calledThe Paradise of Fools, to few unknown.
— John Milton
So spake the fiend, and with necessity, The tyrant's plea, excused his devilish deeds.
— John Milton
True worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth" (John 4:23). Truth matters. There is no real worship without it. Intense affections for God, when we do not know God, are not truly affection for God. They are affections for a distortion of God in our imagination.
— John Piper
I'm not going to say I was opposed to the Vietnam War. I'm going to say I'm opposed to war. But I'm also opposed to protests that deny other people their rights.
— John Wooden
John's core chapters (6—19) tell us, and this concludes our observations, that the three times seven judgments are disciplines designed by God to woo people from the way of the Dragon to the way of the Lamb.
— Scot McKnight
The apostle John wrote, "How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are!" (1 John 3:1 NIV). The word for "lavished" in the original language is in the perfect tense indicating that God's love is permanently fixed upon His children.
— Eric Geiger