John Dickson Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 10 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by John Dickson.
Famous Quotes By John Dickson
In a morally and religiously diverse culture such as ours, humility is a much-needed key to harmony. — John Dickson
while I may not be able to trace the Artist's hand at all times, I can always trust his motives. The God who is in control of all things, who acts behind the scenes in all things, is also the God who willingly suffers. He is the one I can shout at, cry with and find comfort in. — John Dickson
Atheism certainly promotes a low view of humanity- how much lower can you get than thinking yourself an accidental by-product of a series of even larger accidents! — John Dickson
The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge. They have no speech, they use no words; no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.6 — John Dickson
Humility applied to convictions does not mean believing things any less; it means treating those who hold contrary beliefs with respect and friendship. — John Dickson
What we suffer from today is humility in the wrong place. Modesty has moved from the organ of ambition. Modesty has settled upon the organ of conviction; where it was never meant to be. A man was meant to be doubtful about himself but undoubting about the truth. This has been exactly reversed ... We are on the road to producing a race of men too mentally modest to believe in the multiplication table.5 — John Dickson
Without a life example that speaks louder than words, even the most persuasive leader will fail. — John Dickson
There is an aesthetic dimension to virtue. In real life, as opposed to in celluloid, we are attracted to the good and repelled by the bad. Even the woman who says she prefers the archetypal 'bad boy' probably doesn't actually like it when he is bad toward her. — John Dickson
The real power of effective leadership is maximizing other people's potential which inevitably demands also ensuring that they get the credit. When our ego won't let us build another person up, when everything has to build us up, then the effectiveness of the organization reverts to depending instead on how good we are in the technical aspects of what we do. And we have stopped leading and inspiring others to great heights. — John Dickson
Tomes on the meaning of life. Poets and playwrights were — John Dickson