Quotes About John

If you learn classical guitar, you play Bach, and then John Dowland. He's the greatest. He's interesting for many, many reasons.

For me, there is a strong family connection to Boston and anything connected to Boston, which includes Fenway.

I would get scripts about 'a young swinging bachelor on the make,' and I said, 'No, I've done that.'

I'm flattered to be called a sex symbol and, on occasion - if I've had a nice bottle of Beaujolais - I can imagine myself really being one.

It's rather amusing at my advanced age to become a sex symbol.

If we had an immigration policy, sanctuary cities would not be the symptom that manifests itself.

When we were growing up the Barrowland was ominous. It had closed down. It was synonymous with Bible John.

I've been calling for the support of the Syrian rebels for years.

If I loved my Master like my dog loves his, I would be more saintly than John the Divine…more radical than John the Baptizer…more deeply devoted than St. John of the Cross. My

Thus, Paul and John define the opposite poles on the New Testament's spectrum of attitudes toward Judaism.

Although most early Christian prophecy was oral, not written, John had plenty of models for a written prophecy, both in the prophetic books of the Hebrew scriptures and in the later Jewish apocalypses. In its literary forms what he writes is indebted to both kinds of model.

It is clear that John saw himself, not only as one of the Christian prophets, but also as standing in the tradition of Old Testament prophecy.

His task is to proclaim the fulfilment of what God had revealed to the prophets of the past. The whole book is saturated with allusions to Old Testament prophecy, though there are no formal quotations. As a prophet himself, John need not quote his predecessors, but he takes up and reinterprets their prophecies, much as the later writers in the Old Testament prophetic tradition themselves took up and reinterpreted earlier prophecies.

It seems that John not only writes in the tradition of the Old Testament prophets, but understands himself to be writing at the climax of the tradition, when all the eschatological oracles of the prophets are about to be finally fulfilled, and so he interprets and gathers them up in his own prophetic revelation. What makes him a Christian prophet is that he does so in the light of the fulfilment already of Old Testament prophetic expectation in the victory of the Lamb, the Messiah Jesus.

The first is rarely noticed. John's work is highly unusual in the sheer prolific extent of its visual imagery. It is true that symbolic visions are typical of the genre. But in other apocalypses other forms of revelation are often as important or more important.

According to John a man died, was in a tomb for three days, and then on the Sunday he came back to life and walked away. A god is involved. 'That figures.

John the Baptist set an ideal example of this. His message was not about his experiences or what he felt about God, but about Jesus. When

The breathing into Adam (Genesis 2:7) has become the breathing out of Jesus (John 20:22)

Lord Bacchus, do you remember me? I helped you with that missing leopard in Sonoma. Bacchus scratched his stubbly chin. Ah... yes. John Green. Jason Grace. Whatever, the god said.

John softened, and many years later he said to me, "You know, if we were ever to divorce, I get the cat." There is a

Everything was on TV. Millions of American families sat in front of their sets all weekend. The three networks canceled all their regular programs. The news consisted entirely of stories linked to the assassination, and between bulletins there were documentaries about John F. Kennedy, his life, his family

I call it Dante's Syndrome," John said. I had never heard him call it any such thing. "Meaning I think Dave and I gained the ability to peer into Hell. Only it turns out Hell is right here, it's all through us and around us and in us like the microbes that swarm through your lungs and guts and veins. Hey, look! An owl!" We all looked. It was an owl, all right.

Whoops,' said John. 'I tossed our ball into another universe.' 'You wanna go home?' 'Yeah, just let me get my ball.

I noticed John had brought along a thermos of his coffee, this "favor" already qualifying as an all-nighter. I admit, the horrific burning sensation really did keep you awake.