Quotes About John

Two Spirits at the childless widow's bed, Childless no more, have by the pitying heavens Been sent...

And govern well thy appetite, lest Sin Surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.

Kind of bloodthirsty, don't you think, Charles? said John. I'm an editor, said Charles. I have to make decisions like that all the time.

Suddenly, sitting at the window, and with a violence unprecedented, there arose in John a flood of fury and tears, and he bowed his head, fists clenched against the windowpane, crying, with teeth on edge: What shall I do? What shall I do?

You underestimate John Bolton at your peril.

If you look at what happened with Underground Railroad, there is so much action. There is so much intrigue; there is so much of historical importance.

In many cases it is a matter for decision and not a simple matter of fact whether x understands y; and so on.

...you don't need a calling to minister love...

St. Louis is an excellent city.

John Legend is a nickname that some friends started calling me, and it kind of grew into my stage name.

Although no one explicitly wants a president who could have a reliable fall back career in stand-up comedy, everyone shudders at the thought of a Rutherford B. Hayes or John Kerry.

Surely modesty never hurt any cause; and the confidence of man seems to me to be much like the wrath of man.

It is not without reason that the Evangelist is careful to tell us the smallest details. For these two disciples signify two peoples, the Jews [by John] and the Gentiles [by Peter].

Only the most deluded of us could doubt the necessity of this war.

As far as Zarqawi is concerned, there is a network of extremists; it's not just Zarqawi.

If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.

In simple terms, John 13:18-19 records Jesus as telling them about the betrayal that is about to occur. He wants them to know about the event beforehand, so that when the betrayal occurs, they will realize that Jesus predicted that betrayal in his capacity of being God incarnate, using his sovereign omniscience and omnipotence to superintend the events of his own execution.

One reason these and other average guys vie for the attention of paid hot girls is their skewed view of average women. "So-called normal girls are boring," said one john, "but I'll sport fuck them if only for the count." On

I do not want, John. You know I do not understand what is advertisement and what is not advertisement.

John and I are gonna move to San Francisco. It's supposed to be gay heaven up there.

To cite one particularly striking example of this, note how in John 12:37-41, Isaiah's vision of "the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up" is taken to be a vision of Jesus.28

1 John 4:1-3: "By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God, and every spirit that does not confess Jesus is not from God" (NRSV). In yet another text, Revelation 19:10 declares that "the testimony of [or to] Jesus is the spirit of prophecy" (NRSV).

In John 7:37-39, the author explains Jesus' statement about "rivers of living water" as anticipating the reception of the Spirit by believers, which would be made available only after Jesus was "glorified.

Thomas in John 20:28, "my Lord and my God," must be read in the larger context of GJohn, including the statement by the risen Jesus just a bit earlier in the narrative that he ascends to "my Father and your Father, to my God and your God" (20:17 NRSV).