James Gibbons famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.
-- James Gibbons

#Justice #Reform #Virtue
To-day the whole Christian world prostrates itself in adoration around the crib of Bethlehem and rehearses in accents of love a history which precedes all time and will endure throughout eternity. As if by an instinct of our higher, spiritual nature, there well up from the depths of our hearts, emotions which challenge the power of human expression. We seem to be lifted out of the sphere of natural endeavor to put on a new life and to stretch forward in desire to a blessedness which, though not palpable, is eminently real.
-- James Gibbons

#Christmas #Christian #Spiritual
There are no office hours for leaders.
-- James Gibbons

#Office #Leader #Hours
No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.
-- James Gibbons

#Courage #Great Things #Have Courage
Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.
-- James Gibbons
There are no working hours for leaders.
-- James Gibbons

#Leadership #Leader #Hours
We do not attach any intrinsic value to the Cross; this would be sinful and idolatrous. Our veneration is referred to Him who died upon it.
-- James Gibbons

#Friday #Would Be #Crosses
Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.
-- James Gibbons

#Ethics #Truth Is #Commodity
Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings.
-- James Gibbons

#Men #Helping #Missions
For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there
-- James Gibbons

#Softball #Sports #Motivation
I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.
-- James Gibbons

#Humor #Curmudgeon

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