John Miller > Quotes

“Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you, as by the attitude you bring to life; not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens. Circumstances and attitudes do color life...but you have been given the mind to choose what the colors will be.”
― John Miller

“But did this matter? No king could do everything himself: kingship was a matter of delegation, but with the king making the major decisions. Effective delegation, however, required, first, choosing competent ministers and, second, a willingness to follow their advice and to back them up when necessary.”
― John Miller, Charles II

“History, moreover, is a matter not only of sources but also of interpretation”
― John Miller, Charles II

“the Dutch were another matter. Although the republic’s population was tiny compared with that of France or Spain, it had emerged as a great power. It owed that power to trade, to carrying and handling the goods of others.”
― John Miller, Charles II

“the most crucial source of dissatisfaction, which provoked the most explicit threats to hold up money, was religion.”
― John Miller, Charles II

“confidently and fearlessly charge the enemy.”
― John Miller, Pray Your Way Into 2017 for Husbands & Fathers (Grace Edition) Volume 1

“Each”
― John Miller, PrayerDB Pray Your Way Into Turnaround Breakthroughs (PYW Annuals No.7)

“Science teachers have discovered they can use Minecraft to teach geology, physics, and biology.”
― John Miller, Unofficial Minecraft Lab for Kids: Family-Friendly Projects for Exploring and Teaching Math, Science, History, and Culture Through Creative Building

“He may also have thought it unjust to dissolve a marriage entered into by consenting adults, with his permission: while he often behaved deviously, he possessed an innate sense of justice and told his brother he would not allow him to break the laws of God and man.”
― John Miller, Charles II

“we can liken human beings to computing devices, the divine sacrifice of Jesus Christ to our operating system and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit in us to the browser or the app store application. ”
― John Miller, Pray Your Way Into 2017 for Husbands & Fathers (Grace Edition) Volume 1

“greater stress on the sacerdotal role of the clergy was part of a larger attempt to reverse the erosion, since the Reformation, of their authority over the laity.”
― John Miller, Charles II

“Dutch prosperity rested partly on their carrying the products of other nations more efficiently and cheaply than anyone else and partly on their possessing the naval might to protect their own trade and colonies and to harass those of others.”
― John Miller, Charles II

“impose a hearth tax, on the principle that the number of hearths in a person’s dwelling gave a rough indication of their wealth.”
― John Miller, Charles II

“In a western world whose priorities are increasingly secular, many find it hard to understand the religious intolerance of the seventeenth century, but it is important to try to do so. For both Presbyterians and Anglicans not only was religious truth indivisible but a coercive Church seemed essential to impose Christian standards of conduct on an inherently sinful population. For many Anglicans, moreover, the Church of England was much more than just one Church among many: it claimed a continuous visible existence to match that of the Roman Church and so had an equal right to call itself a true Church.”
― John Miller, Charles II

“by the end of the 1660s France was the supreme military power in Europe and its navy, once negligible, was coming to rival those of the Dutch Republic and England.”
― John Miller, Charles II

“I command any seed of the devil that has already entered into my life as a result of my unforgiveness to be cast out and to die. Any door that unforgiveness has opened in my life to the devil and his demons, I slam you shut,”
― John Miller, Pray Your Way Into 2017 for Husbands & Fathers (Grace Edition) Volume 1

“England’s diplomatic service had always been skeletal and underfunded; many ambassadors treated their papers as their personal property, so documentation from the past was far more patchy than in France or Spain, a problem exacerbated by the disruption of the Interregnum.”
― John Miller, Charles II

“It recommended that priests (apart from Jesuits) should be allowed to remain in England, provided they registered with a secretary of state. Some of the more draconian penalties for absence from church and refusal of the oath of allegiance should be abolished, as should the prohibition on sending children to the English Catholic colleges on the continent. Catholics were to take ‘an oath of allegiance’, which implied that the existing oath (unacceptable to most Catholics, as it described certain powers claimed by the pope as ‘impious, damnable and heretical’) was to be amended.”
― John Miller, Charles II

“He believed that vigorous exercise was good for his health, trusting more in that (and a moderate diet) than in the ministrations of his doctors, except on the rare occasions when he was seriously ill.”
― John Miller, Charles II

“by discouraging people from thinking for themselves and feeding them hopes of happiness in the next world, it sought to make them content with their lowly condition in this one.”
― John Miller, Charles II