J.P. Martin Quotes

For the night is dark and full of terrors.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Everything that is done in this world is done by hope.

The SILENCE of the good people is more DANGEROUS than the BRUTALITY of the bad people

Whatever you love most, that is your god.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

I have desired to do good, but I have not desired to make noise, because I have felt that noise did no good and that good made no noise.

Human life and humanity come into being in genuine encounters. The hope for this hour depends upon the renewal of the immediacy of dialogue among human beings.

Symptoms, then, are in reality nothing but a cry from suffering organs.

I have a lot of cooking tools. In fact I have a whole drawer full of knives. Cooking tools, especially cutlery, are my toys.

I've never been cool and I don't really care about being cool. It's just an awful lot of time and hair gel wasted.

The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible.

We had no idea that in as little as 35 years more than half the people on Earth would have cellular telephones, and they give the phones away to people for nothing.

Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly.

My paintings are not about what is seen. They are about what is known forever in the mind.

Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most shocking and inhumane.

A drunk driver is very dangerous. So is a drunk backseat driver if he's persuasive.

I thought the objects we value least because they were ubiquitous were actually the most extraordinary.

If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream.

If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.

Most people who work at home find they do not have the benefit of receptionists who serve as personal guards

God made so many different kinds of people; why would God allow only one way to worship?

It is better to think of church in the ale-house than to think of the ale-house in church.

Brother, you can't go to jail for what you're thinking, or that look in your eye, just standing on the corner watching all the girls go by.

Injustice and corruption will never be transformed by keeping them hidden, but only by bringing them out into the light and confronting them with the power of love.

Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

When you have a fat friend there are no see-saws, only catapults.

I try to make images that have the immediate presence we take for granted in objects - a chair, a shoe, a book, a Judd - and compose them like sentences.

In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty.

In my mind, when God made women, he did an amazing job. I think girls are just perfect.

No other God have I but thee, born in a manger, died on a tree.

Music is a fair and glorious gift of God. I am strongly persuaded that after theology, there is no art which can be placed on the level with music.

Busy souls have no time to be busybodies.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

You can kill the dreamer, but you can't kill the dream.

Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace.

And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Art is the concrete representation of our most subtle feelings.

Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.

When people meet me I think they're surprised to find out I'm not always angst-ridden.

The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.

Grant that I may not pray alone with the mouth; help me that I may pray from the depths of my heart.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity