Joseph P. Farrell Quotes & Sayings

Most people like praise ... When it is really deserved, most people expand under it into richer and better selves. — Joseph P. Farrell

The man who most vividly realizes a difficulty is the man most likely to overcome it. — Joseph P. Farrell

Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram. — Joseph P. Farrell

Take my advice, dear reader, don't talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I know, to those have, the temptation is almost irresistible. But resist it. Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to be somewhat chiselled, as it were, before it will quite fit into an epigram. — Joseph P. Farrell

An error in the doctrine of God will have inevitable consequences in the sphere of action, of moral behaviour, of the polity of the Church, and of basic culture and social organization. A change in the doctrine of the Trinity in either of these directions cannot help but have political consequences.

Farrell, commenting on Nazianzen's connection between Trinity and Holy Monarchy — Joseph P. Farrell

We are odd compounds full of explosive material to which circumstances may at any time apply a spark, with results undreamed of even by those who thought they knew us best. — Joseph P. Farrell

There is an illusion that has much to do with ... most of our unhappiness ... We expect too much. — Joseph P. Farrell

If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself. — Joseph P. Farrell

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own. — Joseph P. Farrell

If we only knew the real value of a day. — Joseph P. Farrell

The secret of all power is - save your force. If you want high pressure you must choke off waste. — Joseph P. Farrell

...carved marble figures in strata that "suggests the characters were made by intelligent humans from the distant past,"
a section of gold thread found in strata between 320 and 360 million years old,
a report in a nineteenth-century edition of Scientific American recording the discovery of a metallic vase in strata 600 million years old,
a chalk ball in France in strata 45-55 million years old,
a machined coin with undecipherable writing at least 200,000 years old, discovered in Illinois,
a clay figurine discovered in Idaho that is atleast two million years old.
The list of suppressed and conveniently forgotten discoveries goes on and on, — Joseph P. Farrell