John W. Miller quotes

“Humility, or poverty of spirit, is not a matter of thinking low thoughts about ourselves. It is not a matter of groveling in the dust. It is simply a matter of knowing ourselves as we really are. And when we see ourselves as we really are, we will see that we are poor.”
-- John W. Miller

Source : John W. Miller (1969). “The Christian way: a guide to the Christian life based on the Sermon on the Mount”

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“Homosexuality is the sexual plague of a monogamous society gone promiscuous. These societies that sow the winds of heterosexual freedom ironically reap the whirlwind of homosexual perversion.”
-- John W. Miller

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“The emotional reaction in the peak experience has a special flavor of wonder, of awe, of reverence, of humility and surrender before the experience as before something great.”

“Superficial knowledge breeds arrogance; true knowledge induces humility.”

“Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.”

“The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.”

Source : "The Parenting Trap" by A. A. Gill, www.vanityfair.com. November 2, 2012.

“I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.”

“Indo-European peoples and Semitic peoples are today still completely different... Jews almost everywhere form a special society... Muslims (the Semitic spirit is today represented mainly by Islam) and the Europeans stand face to face like two beings of different species, having nothing common in the way of thinking and feeling...”

Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.

“One should not be happy or distressed over desirables and undesirables, knowing that such feelings are just created by the mind.”

“He pressed a kiss to my ear. “Do you feel stretched? Can you tell I’ve been inside you?” I nodded, feeling my knees go a little weak from the tone in his voice. “Good. I like knowing you can feel where I’ve been.”

“All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.”

“Like a pet fish unaware of the fishbowl it lives in, each of us inherently discriminates against young people without knowing it.”