J.P. Martin Quotes

A lot of people like lollipops. I don't like lollipops. To me, a lollipop is hard candy plus garbage. I don't need a handle. Just give me the candy.

You can’t reach good ends through evil means, because the means represent the seed and the end represents the tree.

With his blessings from above, serve it generously with love. One man, one wife, one love, through life.

An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language.

History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily.

Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell.

The thing I notice first about a woman is her walk. A beautiful woman is like a race horse-slim, sleek and with a beautiful carriage.

To love God truly, one must first love man. And if anyone tells you that he loves God and does not love his fellow-man, you will know that he is lying.

I once shook hands with Pat Boone, and my whole right side sobered up!

Being and time determine each other reciprocally, but in such a manner that neither can the former - Being - be addressed as something temporal nor can the latter - time - be addressed as a being.

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

‎It is a cruel injustice to tell a bootless man to pull himself up by his bootstraps.

Language is the house of Being. In its home man dwells. Those who think and those who create with words are the guardians of this home.

Nothing matters except life and the love you make.

We do not become righteous by doing righteous deed but, having been made righteous, we do righteous deeds.

Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without thorn.

We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them.

One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws.

When you tear out a man's tongue, you are not proving him a liar, you're only telling the world that you fear what he might say.

He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long.

I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?

I think in life everyone needs to be broken in some way.

Your love made it all worth waiting for some like you.

The true meaning of love one's neighbor is not that it is a command from God which we are to fulfill, but that through it and in it we meet God.

When well-being comes from engaging our strengths and virtues, our lives are imbued with authenticity.

I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.

When evil men plot, good men must plan. When evil men burn and bomb, good men must build and bind. When evil men shout ugly words of hatred, good men must commit themselves to the glories of love.

It is the duty of every Christian to be Christ to his neighbor.

We host some trips all over the world. We go to Alaska. We go to Mexico. We're going to Venezuela in December. We've been to Russia, all in conjunction with the radio show.

The quality, not the longevity, of one's life is what is important.

The government should not be guided by Temporary Excitement, but by Sober Second Thought.

A gospel that doesn't deal with the issues of the day is not the gospel at all.

Everybody Loves Somebody Sometime.

Well-being cannot exist just in your own head. Well-being is a combination of feeling good as well as actually having meaning, good relationships and accomplishment.

Use me, God. Show me how to take who I am, who I want to be, and what I can do, and use it for a purpose greater than myself.

Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.

No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross.

Courage is an inner resolution to go forward despite obstacles; Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances.

The Bible is the cradle wherein Christ is laid.

An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.

Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man.

Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

The Curse of poverty has no justification in our age...The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty.

Everybody makes mistakes; look at Hitler.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

In a society in which individualism is becoming rampant, people more and more believe that they are the center of the world. Such a belief system makes individual failure almost inconsolable.

God does not love sinners because they are attractive; sinners are attractive to God because he loves them.