J.P. Martin Quotes

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

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

The good life is using your signature strengths every day to produce authentic happiness and abundant gratification.

I don't want to just be an artist for one country, I want to produce for the world.

I love playing music no matter where it is.

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

A human being becomes whole not in virtue of a relation to himself [only] but rather in virtue of an authentic relation to another human being(s).

It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important.

Nothing is everything that doesn't happen at this very moment.

The aim of Positive Psychology is to catalyze a change in psychology from a preoccupation only with repairing the worst things in life to also building the best qualities in life.

The atheist staring from his attic window is often nearer to God than the believer caught up in his own false image of God.

There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it.

Love is a flower that blooms so tender, each kiss a dew drop of sweet surrender. Love is a moment of life enchanting, let's take that moment that tonight is granting.

Christianity can be summed up in the two terms faith and love...receiving from above [faith] and giving out below [love].

Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

Everyone is the other and no one is himself.

When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music.

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

In a tuxedo, I'm a star. In regular clothes, I'm a nobody.

Solitude is the place of purification.

It's not what I don't know that bothers me - it's what I do know and don't do!

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

Habits of thinking need not be forever. One of the most significant findings in psychology in the last twenty years is that individuals choose the way they think.

Unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

Changing the destructive things you say to yourself when you experience the setbacks that life deals all of us is the central skill of optimism.

Whenever you create a universal device that does all things for all people, it does not do any things well.

Psychology should be just as concerned with building strength as with repairing damage

Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.

Your lips and mine, two sips of wine, memories are made of this.

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus.

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

Questioning is the piety of thought.

Our elevation must be the result of self-efforts and work of our own hands. No other human power can accomplish it. If we but determine it shall be so, it will be so.

There is no justification without sanctification, no forgiveness without renewal of life, no real faith from which the fruits of new obedience do not grow.

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.

The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.

Every person born in this world represents something new, something that never existed before, something original and unique.

Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.

The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.

How one encounters reality is a choice.

If people want to think I get drunk and stay out all night, let'em. That's how I got here, you know.

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

When we take time to notice the things that go right - it means we're getting a lot of little rewards throughout the day.

The clothes make the man. The children working in sweatshops make the clothes. Therefore, the children working in sweatshops make the man.

I've got seven kids. The three words you hear most around my house are 'hello,' 'goodbye,' and 'I'm pregnant.'

A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right.

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.