John Bunyan Quotes

Every tub sits on its bottom.

Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support.

You can't build a great building on a weak foundation. You must have a solid foundation if you're going to have a strong superstructure.

Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone - but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.

The loftier the building, the deeper must the foundation be laid.

As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser.

The heart of standing is you cannot fly.

Without stones there is no arch.

You can have some stable things in life, and so long as you're not away from those things for too long, they can help keep you grounded.

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

You have these great institutions spinning around you with great centrifugal force. You have to try to keep them spinning around the center.

Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the center of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

It is hard to make an empty sack stand upright.

Usually, my husband is a pretty good rock, a pretty good sounding board... He definitely brings a center of gravity into my life.

Heavy is the root of light.

The most solid stone in the structure is the lowest one in the foundation.

Kicking leaves you momentarily on one foot, and for that moment you are in a very weak position. If you were to be swept off your feet, you would be finished. This is why lifting your feet off the ground is crazy.

He who stands on tiptoe does not stand firm.

The loftiest edifices need the deepest foundations.

Step not beyond the beam of the balance.

I will be the answer, At the end of the line, I will be there for you, While you take the time, In the burning of uncertainty, I will be your solid ground, I will hold the balance, If you can't look down. If it takes my whole life, I won't break, I won't bend, It will all be worth it, Worth it in the end, Cause I can only tell you what I know, That I need you in my life, When the stars have all gone out, You'll still be burning so bright...

It has sustained me in moments of success and in moments of disappointment. Without it, I'd be a different person. And without it, I doubt I'd be here today.

The great lesson that nature seems to teach us at all ages is self-dependence, self-protection, self-support. In the hours of our keenest sufferings all are thrown wholly on themselves for consolation.

He who stands upon his own strength will never stand.

Some individuals may perceive their losing fight with gravity as a sharp pain in their back, others as the unflattering contour of their body, others as constant fatigue, yet others as an unrelentingly threatening environment. Those over forty may call it old age. And yet all these signals may be pointing to a single problem so prominent in their own structure, as well as others, that it has been ignored: they are off balance, they are at war with gravity.