John Webster

“Reading the Bible isn’t about confirming our ideas and experiences and going away satisfied. It’s about being challenged, called into question. Part…

— John Webster

Is not old wine wholesomest, old pippins toothsomest, old wood burn brightest, old linen wash whitest? Old soldiers, sweethearts, are surest, and…

— John Webster

Do you not weep? Other sins only speak; murder shrieks out. The element of water moistens the earth, But blood flies upwards…

— John Webster

With such a pity men preserve alive Pheasants and quails, when they are no fat enough to be eaten.

— John Webster

Love mixed with fear is sweetness.

— John Webster

“…The heart of the matter, the heart of the Christian message, is constituted by a fearful question and a merciful answer: What…

— John Webster

“…We know in advance what’s going to be said, and so we forget to listen….”

— John Webster

“Betrayal means that, faced with opposition or temptation or ridicule, we fail to stand by a commitment to another. It’s another instance…

— John Webster

“When we hear prophecy, we may not and must not treat it with cool detachment; prophecy isn’t a matter for our appraisal…

— John Webster

“Why do we tell lies? We lie because the truth is too painful or too shameful for us to face, or because…

— John Webster

When a man's mind rides faster than his horse can gallop they quickly both tire.

— John Webster

That friend a great man's ruin strongly checks, who rails into his belief all his defects.

— John Webster

“I know death hath ten thousand several doors For men to take their exits; and 'tis found They go on such strange…

— John Webster

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

— John Webster

“I am Duchess of Malfi still.”

— John Webster

Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one…

— John Webster

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into…

— John Webster

Lust carries her sharp whip At her own girdle.

— John Webster

“There’s no resolution to the conflicts of our lives within ourselves, no freedom from wickedness to be sought in striving, no peace…

— John Webster

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

— John Webster

“What a strange creature is a laughing fool, As if a man were created to no use But only to show his…

— John Webster

“As we read the stories of [the] last week of the life of Christ…, we are not to think of what we…

— John Webster

“We desperately need pardon. We need to have the past erased. We need, somehow, to have sin dealt with so that it…

— John Webster

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

— John Webster

Knowledge Is Power! Train smart and obtain power!

— John Webster