Quotes from John Miller

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life.

People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you, as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and attitudes do color life...but you have been given the mind to choose what the colors will be.

confidently and fearlessly charge the enemy.

by the end of the 1660s France was the supreme military power in Europe and its navy, once negligible, was coming to rival those of the Dutch Republic and England.

the Dutch were another matter. Although the republic's population was tiny compared with that of France or Spain, it had emerged as a great power. It owed that power to trade, to carrying and handling the goods of others.

England's diplomatic service had always been skeletal and underfunded; many ambassadors treated their papers as their personal property, so documentation from the past was far more patchy than in France or Spain, a problem exacerbated by the disruption of the Interregnum.

Dutch prosperity rested partly on their carrying the products of other nations more efficiently and cheaply than anyone else and partly on their possessing the naval might to protect their own trade and colonies and to harass those of others.

He believed that vigorous exercise was good for his health, trusting more in that (and a moderate diet) than in the ministrations of his doctors, except on the rare occasions when he was seriously ill.

I command any seed of the devil that has already entered into my life as a result of my unforgiveness to be cast out and to die. Any door that unforgiveness has opened in my life to the devil and his demons, I slam you shut

we can liken human beings to computing devices, the divine sacrifice of Jesus Christ to our operating system and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in us to the browser or the app store application. 

impose a hearth tax, on the principle that the number of hearths in a person's dwelling gave a rough indication of their wealth.

the most crucial source of dissatisfaction, which provoked the most explicit threats to hold up money, was religion.

by discouraging people from thinking for themselves and feeding them hopes of happiness in the next world, it sought to make them content with their lowly condition in this one.

History, moreover, is a matter not only of sources but also of interpretation

But did this matter? No king could do everything himself: kingship was a matter of delegation, but with the king making the major decisions. Effective delegation, however, required, first, choosing competent ministers and, second, a willingness to follow their advice and to back them up when necessary.

greater stress on the sacerdotal role of the clergy was part of a larger attempt to reverse the erosion, since the Reformation, of their authority over the laity.

He may also have thought it unjust to dissolve a marriage entered into by consenting adults, with his permission: while he often behaved deviously, he possessed an innate sense of justice and told his brother he would not allow him to break the laws of God and man.

Woman are like aesthetic paintings, each unique in their own way.