John Walton Quotes

#1. He's no John Walton.

Haven Kimmel

#2. An interesting thing about New York City is that the subways run through the sewers.

Garrison Keillor

#3. In response, God appears to Job and compels him to live in mystery, not giving an answer to his suffering but asserting his own wisdom and power. Other

John H. Walton

#4. Effective leaders....always rise to a challenge. That's one of the things that separates winners from whiners.....Walton rose above it by solving his problems with creativity and tenacity.


Anyone who expects the road to be easy will continually find himself in trouble.

John C. Maxwell

#5. I learned a lesson which has stuck with me all through the years: you can learn from everybody. I didn't just learn from reading every retail publication I could get my hands on, I probably learned the most from studying what John Dunham was doing across the street

Sam Walton

#6. There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

Josh Billings

#7. This reading of the biblical text has not been imposed on it by the demands of science, but science has prompted a more careful examination of precisely what the text is claiming.

John H. Walton

#8. In other words, the question of the historical Adam has more to do with sin's origins than with material human origins. These

John H. Walton

#9. The most central truth to the creation account is that this world is a place for God's presence.

John H. Walton

#10. Have you ever wanted something that you knew was bad for you? Something that you ached for so much you could think of nothing else? [Wren]

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#11. John Stockton is one of the true marvels, not just of basketball, or in America, but in the history of Western Civilization!

Bill Walton

#12.
The whole world is three drinks behind. If everyone in the world would take three drinks, we would have no trouble. If Stalin, Truman and everybody else in the world had three drinks right now, we'd all loosen up and we wouldn't need the United Nations.

Humphrey Bogart

#13. Irregular contact with doctors means many men fail to receive any preventive care for potentially life-threatening conditions. In addition, when men do seek care, embarrassment can often prevent them from openly discussing health concerns with their physicians.

Michael Crapo

#14. Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor even eagle flew- And, while with silent lifting mind I've trod The high, untrespassed sanctity of space, Put out my hand and touched the face of God.

Dizzy Gillespie

#15. With God there are no dead ends, only training grounds.

John H. Walton

#16. The Bible's message must not be subjected to cultural imperialism. Its message transcends the culture in which it originated, but the form in which the message was imbedded was fully permeated by the ancient culture.

John H. Walton

#17. THE RETRIBUTION PRINCIPLE (RP) is the conviction that the righteous will prosper and the wicked will suffer, both in proportion to their respective righteousness and wickedness. In Israelite theology the principle was integral to the belief in God's justice.

John H. Walton

#18. Our point, however, is not to worship the Bible; we worship the God of the Bible.

John H. Walton

#19. That's all there is; there isn't any more.

Ethel Barrymore

#20. While the Bible has nothing to say about how ethnic distinctions came to be, it does have definitive statements about how we are to regard them: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" (Gal. 3:28).

John H. Walton

#21. I don't think there's much point in putting me a deep, dark, heavy, emotional film because there are people who do it so much better than I do.

Hugh Grant

#22. The Bible must retain its autonomy and speak for itself. But that is also true when we hold traditional interpretations up to the Bible. The biblical text must retain its autonomy from tradition. We must always be willing to return to the text and consider it with fresh eyes.

John H. Walton

#23. Since all people are in the image of God, all deserve to be treated with the dignity the image affords.

John H. Walton

#24. We gain nothing by bringing God's revelation into accordance with today's science. In contrast, it makes perfect sense that God communicated his revelation to his immediate audience in terms they understood.

John H. Walton

#25. But our God is a God of grace. If we desire to be like him, we need to go beyond being people who are saved by grace to be people who are characterized by grace.

John H. Walton

#26. If God were intent on making his revelation correspond to science, we have to ask which science. We

John H. Walton

#27. I figured if you're going to do something, you should do it the best you can.

John T. Walton

#28. Deacon looked up from under the mop of curls. "I'm becoming a fire bug."
The humour was lost on Aiden. "I know what you're thinking.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#29. I tried to teach them [his sons] that about the importance of self-discipline, and that the culture of yes is built on a foundation of no.

Bill Walton

#30. Growing up, my parents were very, very strict. And then I went to UCLA with John Wooden, who was just off the charts.

Bill Walton

#31. Mesopotamian literature is concerned about the jurisdiction of the various gods in the cosmos with humankind at the bottom of the heap, the Genesis account is interested in the jurisdiction of humankind over the rest of creation as a result of the image of God in which people were created.

John H. Walton

#32. There is a growing acceptance and interest in publicly funded school choice as a catalyst for education reform in general and a way to empower parents to be education reformers.

John T. Walton

#33. If I had my life to live over, instead of wishing away nine months of pregnancy, I'd have cherished ever moment and realized that the wonderment growing inside me was the only chance in life to assist God in a miracle.

Erma Bombeck

#34. Language itself is a cultural convention, and since the Bible and other ancient documents use language to communicate, they are bound to a culture.

John H. Walton