Quotes About John

John Stilgoe, Outside Lies Magic: Regaining History and Awareness in Everyday Places (New York: Walker and Co., 1998), 94.

John the Baptist prepared the way for us all humankind to be truly born again.

On the next day, seeing Jesus again John the Baptist testified once again, "Behold

At that time, John the Baptist was baptizing the Israelites for the repentance of sins and through this made them return to God.

The Words, "Permit it to be so now, for thus it is fitting for us to fulfill all righteousness" (Matthew 3:15)

John: I'm experiencing an odd sensation. I think it might be patriotism. Spitfire: Steady. Too much of that can damage your health.

The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.

There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

All the dorms were named after dissidents, freedom fighters, revolutionaries.) "The Vaclav Havel is between the John Brown and the Cesar Chavez. If you get to Michael Collins," Rowena said, "you've gone too far.

In John's vision of the cosmos, there is no room for gathering around God's throne at one time as one's cosmic center and at another time in the fellowship of idols and their worshipers.

John's standard maneuver to ask someone to help him, especially in a moment of crisis

John had one built in Paris for his wife. They've

Richard had embodied the virtues which men admire in the lion, but there is no animal in nature that combines the contradictory qualities of John. He united the ruthlessness of a hardened warrior with the craft and subtlety of a Machiavellian.

When John hardened his heart to the interdict and redoubled the attacks upon Church property, the Pope, in 1209, took the supreme step of excommunication. The King's subjects were thereby absolved from their allegiance; his enemies received the blessing of the Church and were sanctified as Crusaders. But John was stubborn and unabashed. Interdict and excommunication brought no ghostly terrors to his soul.

Yet in my rural town I almost never run into anyone on my nightly walks—except for one eccentric, a man everyone calls Jogger John.

What Shelley's world of Prometheus Unbound really has to fear is not resurrection of Jupiter but the resurrection of John Donne.

See John Haworth, Work, Leisure and Wellbeing, Routledge, London, 1997, pp. 24–5.

behind his desk and smiled at her. 'John

30 or 40 of such voluntary gentlemen would do more in a day than 100 of the rest that must be press'd to it by compulsion.

'Bolt' was made by Walt Disney Animation Studios, not by Pixar.

The U.S. Open is not John Daly's style of golf.

The fact is, LFC is going to require substantial investment, as did the Red Sox.

Saint Ignatius was a convert and disciple of S. John the Evangelist. He was appointed by S. Peter to succeed Evodius in the see of Antioch, and he continued in his bishopric full forty years.