James Gibbons Quotes

• Reform must come from within, not from without. You cannot legislate for virtue.

  James Gibbons

  Justice, Diversity, Reform

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• There are no office hours for leaders.

  James Gibbons

  Leadership, Wrestling, Office

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• 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

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• Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings.

  James Gibbons

  Men, Helping, Missions

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• I am no longer a curmudgeon. I am a curmudgeon emeritus.

  James Gibbons

  Humor, Curmudgeon

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• Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

  James Gibbons

  Truth, Honesty, Lying

  James Gibbons (1896). “The Ambassador of Christ”

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• No great thing comes to any person unless that person has courage.

  James Gibbons

  Courage, Great Things, Have Courage

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• A civil ruler dabbling in religion is as reprehensible as a clergyman dabbling in politics. Both render themselves odious as well as ridiculous.

  James Gibbons

  Ridiculous, Clergymen, Wells

  James Gibbons (2014). “The Faith of Our Fathers”, p.145, The Floating Press

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• Berlioz says nothing in his music, but he says it magnificently.

  James Gibbons

  Berlioz

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• For to keep at the top is harder almost than to get there

  James Gibbons

  Softball, Sports, Motivation

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• A critic is a man who expects miracles.

  James Gibbons

  Men, Miracle, Critics

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• 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

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• There are no working hours for leaders.

  James Gibbons

  Leadership, Business, Words Of Wisdom

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