Quotes about John

Do you know that St Matthew mentions Hell fifteen times in fifty-two pages of my bible and St John not once?

These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you" (John 14:25—26).

Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

Run, John, run. The law commands But gives neither feet nor hands. Better news the gospel brings; It bids me fly and gives me wings.

The Holy Spirit, so central to New Testament writings as diverse as those of Paul, John, and the author of Acts, inhabits the message and empowers the speaker, so that the proclamation of God's act in Christ is the new occasion of creation, issuing from the Trinitarian power of the originating Word itself.

First John 4:10 says, "This is real love—not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.

There was a man sent from God, whose name was John.

Jesus had been crucified years before her birth, but in John, as in her father, she saw the Lord. In John's dear face she found infinite compassion, love, the glow of fierce conviction, the strength of true faith.

Do not let friars enter your wine cellars for fear they will bless every barrel and change the wine into blood.

When they saw the courage of Peter and John and realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus. Acts 4:13

The Word of God we read is written not so much with ink as with the blood of the Son of God;

the mark of sound doctrine given by our Saviour himself is its tendency to promote the glory not of men, but of God (John