J.P. Martin Quotes

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

As long as we live there is never enough singing.

When your opponent's sittin' there holdin' all the aces, there's only one thing to do: kick over the table.

When the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine, that's amore.

A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.

Let the wife make the husband glad to come home, and let him make her sorry to see him leave.

Pray, and let God worry.

Prayer is climbing up into the heart of God.

The real struggle is not between East and West, or capitalism and communism, but between education and propaganda.

The best way to get people to think outside the box is not to create the box in the first place.

When two people relate to each other authentically and humanly, God is the electricity that surges between them.

I simply taught, preached, wrote God's Word: otherwise I did nothing. The Word of God did it all.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend.

Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach.

A person is neither a thing nor a process but an opening through which the Absolute can manifest.

Dwelling is not primarily inhabiting but taking care of and creating that space within which something comes into its own and flourishes.

If this is just the beginning, my life's gonna be beautiful.

God writes the Gospel not in the Bible alone, but also on trees, and in the flowers and clouds and stars.

The brightest flame casts the darkest shadow.

Temptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair.

I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor.

Life is beautiful in all it's colors, even the darker ones, they're here for a reason.

I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!

Peace if possible, truth at all costs.

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

Everything that's happening to you, is what's suppose to be happening to you. So just relax.

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment.

Life inflicts the same setbacks and tragedies on the optimist as on the pessimist, but the optimist weathers them better.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

I don't drink anymore... I freeze it and eat it like a popsicle.

It was a woman who drove me to drink. Come to think of it, I never did hang around to thank her for that. 'Hey lady! Do I look all blurry to you? 'Cause you look blurry to me!'

If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.

Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one.

I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.

Milton Berle is an inspiration to every young person that wants to get into show business. Hard work, perseverance, and discipline: all the things you need...when you have no talent.

We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil.

How fast does a zebra have to run before it looks gray.

Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars.

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open

Somewhere there's a someone for me. Though I may be lonely now, I'll see it through somehow, to somebody's heart I know I hold the key.

We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties.

The world is the same you never change it, as sure as the stars shine above. Well, you're nobody til somebody loves you, so find yourself somebody to love.

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

Always preach in such a way that if the people listening do not come to hate their sin, they will instead hate you