John Pontius > Quotes

“…We had spiritually marked ourselves. This marking began…when the counterculture of political correctness began, and the assault on Christian values and traditions began. At first it seemed so ridiculous that it was harmless, kind of like a disease to which we were all immune. Soon, however, it was recolored to equal compassion, fairness, acceptance, tolerance, and equality. From there it evolved into a power with the ability to take any truth and repaint it as a lie, to take any lie and relabel it as truth.”
― John Pontius

“Evil spirits wait for opportunities when we are spiritually weak or after we have rendered ourselves vulnerable by disobedience to God’s laws, and they enter into us in an act of spiritual violence.”
― John Pontius, Visions of Glory: One Man's Astonishing Account of the Last Days

“I saw all of the good I did, all of the love I gave, the service and kindness—but I also saw all of the sorrow and pain I had caused. I saw all of my mistakes and how they affected everyone. I saw some mistakes that not only affected one person, but their children, and their children, on and on. I saw every act ripple through time until its power was dissipated.”
― John Pontius, Visions of Glory: One Man's Astonishing Account of the Last Days

“If Jesus Christ called you on the phone and asked you to go help your spouse with the dishes, wouldn’t you immediately go from the phone to the sink? Or would you return to your TV show and shrug it off with little or no thought? If a telephone call from Jesus Christ would impress you, then why not His voice in your spiritual ear, whispered from the eternal realms? Are we more impressed with electronics than we are with revelation? Consider again the words just quoted above: And every one that hearkeneth to the voice of the Spirit [which begins as the conscience], cometh unto God, even the Father.”
― John M. Pontius, Following the Light of Christ Into His Presence

“Your conscience is revelation to you as surely as if the Lord sent an angel to your bedroom with a flaming sword.”
― John M. Pontius, Following the Light of Christ Into His Presence

“Their glee was greater glee in the fact that he was a good man, than he was any off-the-street kind of a guy who did this sort of thing without needing temptation...They delighted in the pain in the pain this would cause his wife and family..”
― John Pontius, Visions of Glory: One Man's Astonishing Account of the Last Days

“Obedience to the commandments by sheer determination and willpower has its reward, but it can be overwhelming. When you set your life in obedience to the voice of God, you will naturally, joyfully, almost without notice, be obeying all the commandments—every single one of them.”
― John Pontius, Following the Light of Christ into His Presence

“Through the scriptures we are allowed to view the powerful effect of these gifts and mysteries in the lives of the ancient faithful. Most all of us believe in their blessings. What we often can’t see is the invitation to step forth and partake for ourselves.”
― John Pontius, The Triumph of Zion: Our Personal Quest for the New Jerusalem

“In fact, building a righteous citizenry first is the only way Zion can be successfully established. It isn’t possible to buy real estate, build a city, and then start inviting the best of the best to move in. What you create with this model is a social experiment or just a nice neighborhood. Zion must first blossom in the souls of a people; then when those souls are called to gather, the physical environs they inhabit become Zion because of their righteous presence.”
― John Pontius, The Triumph of Zion: Our Personal Quest for the New Jerusalem

“so. It is improbable that the Lord will instruct His prophet to build a city until a city-sized group of people are worthy to enter it. Thus, building Zion, if it is hindered in our day, would be because it is high-centered upon our own unbelief, not upon some theological or ecclesiastical misstep of the Church.”
― John Pontius, The Triumph of Zion: Our Personal Quest for the New Jerusalem

“I also learned that our lives are all recorded somewhere, detail upon flawless detail. Everything we do matters—nothing is just trivial. It is all profoundly significant, and life is meaningful and full of purpose. Our Lives Matter I learned to not minimize what is going on in my life. I try to see everything I do as being of eternal worth. I learned, and have trained myself, to believe that I am not just a simple person with little worth or impact upon the world. Everything we do has import, and God is involved in the details of our lives.”
― John Pontius, Visions of Glory: One Man's Astonishing Account of the Last Days