J.P. Martin Quotes

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.

The time is always right to do what is right.

Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

The time is always right to do the right thing.

You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

Whoever drinks beer, he is quick to sleep; whoever sleeps long, does not sin; whoever does not sin, enters Heaven! Thus, let us drink beer!

I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

God does not need your good works, but your neighbor does.

The road to freedom is bordered with sunflowers.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Lord Jesus, You are my righteousness, I am your sin. You took on you what was mine; yet set on me what was yours. You became what you were not, that I might become what I was not.

God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us.

We need to hear the Gospel every day, because we forget it every day.

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.

A religion that gives nothing, costs nothing, and suffers nothing, is worth nothing.

Pray like it all depends on God, then when you are done, go work like it all depends on you.

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true.

The whole being of any Christian is faith and love. Faith brings the person to God, love brings the person to people.

It's not the violence of the few that scares me, it's the silence of the many

When Satan tells me I am a sinner he comforts me immeasurably, since Christ died for sinners.

We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished.

Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred.

The sin underneath all our sins is to trust the lie of the serpent that we cannot trust the love and grace of Christ and must take matters into our own hands

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

The Bible is alive, it speaks to me; it has feet, it runs after me; it has hands, it lays hold of me.

In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends.

I want to show everyone that if you pursue your dreams, they can come true no matter what. That's what I want to do.

Every week I preach justification by faith to my people, because every week they forget it.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

Let's build bridges, not walls.

A simple layman armed with Scripture is greater than the mightiest pope without it

The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst.

Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen

We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

I bought a cactus. A week later it died. And I got depressed, because I thought, Damn. I am less nurturing than a desert.

Perhaps the worst sin in life is knowing right and not doing it.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.

Show me where a man spends his time & money, and I'll show you his god.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

The most damnable and pernicious heresy that has ever plagued the mind of man was the idea that somehow he could make himself good enough to deserve to live with an all-holy God.

Peace is not simply the absence of conflict, but the existence of justice for all people.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.

The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking.