John Stuart > John's Quotes

“The flesh dies, or at least it changes, and its passions pass, but that other passion of the spirit — that longing for oneness — is undying as itself.”
― H. Rider Haggard, The Works of H. Rider Haggard

“A Christian is one who has been “crucified with Christ,” who has died with Him, been buried with Him, risen with Him, ascended with Him, and is seated “in heavenly places” with Him (Rom 6:3-8; Gal 2:20; Eph 2:5-6; Col 3:1-3).”
― Horatius Bonar, God's Way of Holiness

“A false idea or a diverging step at the outset may lead to a false religion throughout life, to an imperfect and superficial goodness, as one incorrect figure or sign in an equation falsifies both process and result.”
― Horatius Bonar, God's Way of Holiness

“To maintain peace in the future it is necessary to be prepared for war.”
― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant: All Volumes

“It is possible that the question of a conflict between races may come up in the future, as did that between freedom and slavery before. The condition of the colored man within our borders may become a source of anxiety, to say the least. But he was brought to our shores by compulsion, and he now should be considered as having as good a right to remain here as any other class of our citizens.”
― Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S Grant

“Shamelessness, they hold, treads close on the heels of ingratitude, and thus ingratitude is the ringleader and chief instigator to every kind of baseness.”
― Xenophon, Cyropaedia: the education of Cyrus

“That in the hands of politicians grand designs achieve nothing but new forms of the old misery?”
― John le Carré, Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy