Famous quotes containing the words john, discipline and/or opposition:
“Show me a man who feels bitterly toward John Brown, and let me hear what noble verse he can repeat. Hell be as dumb as if his lips were stone.”
—Henry David Thoreau (18171862)
“The discipline of the Old Testament may be summed up as a discipline teaching us to abhor and flee from sin; the discipline of the New Testament, as a discipline teaching us to die to it.”
—Matthew Arnold (18221888)
“Commitment, by its nature, frees us from ourselves and, while it stands us in opposition to some, it joins us with others similarly committed. Commitment moves us from the mirror trap of the self absorbed with the self to the freedom of a community of shared values.”
—Michael Lewis (late 20th century)