Massillon Quotes & Sayings

Maybe you've invested a lot of time, effort, money, emotion, and energy in a relationship; you did your best to make it work out. But for some reason, things got off course. And now you feel as though you have been robbed. When we focus on or disappointments, we stop God from ringing fresh new blessing into our lives. — Joel Osteen

Time is short, your obligations are infinite. Are your houses regulated, your children instructed, the afflicted relieved, the poor visited, the work of piety accomplished? — Jean Baptiste Massillon

I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities laid open to it. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole. — Vladimir Putin

Slander is perhaps the only vice which no circumstance can palliate, as well as being one which we are most ingenious in concealing from ourselves. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

Whatever passes away is too vile to be the price of time, which is itself the price of eternity. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

I'm very open-minded. — Gabrielle Reece

God should be the object of all our desires, the end of all our actions, the principle of all our affections, and the governing power of our whole souls. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

To be proud and inaccessible is to be timid and weak. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

You may say to yourself: "Well, how did I get here? — David Byrne

Our acts of kindness we reserve for our friends, our bounties for our dependants, our riches for our children and relations, our praises for those who appear worthy of them, our time we give all to the world; we expose it, I may say, a prey to all mankind. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

And from the top of the building I look down upon the world and see the crowds of people in the city I have made and the world that I have created.
This universe, my universe, dies with me. I will jump and I will die and yet, I will live, as I always do.
I will live and die and murder, a massacre of my people. And I watch as the girl's bare feet leap and her naked body falls. Down, down, down, she falls. She drops. Into the fires of a hell of my making. — Emma Rose Kraus

I love a serious preacher, who speaks for my sake and not for his own; who seeks my salvation, and not his own vain glory. He best deserves to be heard who uses speech only to clothe his thoughts, and his thoughts only to promote truth and virtue. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt. — William Shakespeare

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine. — Logan Pearsall Smith

There are some sins which are more justly to be denominated surprises than infidelities. To such the world should be lenient, as, doubtless, Heaven is forgiving. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

Every effort is made in forming matrimonial alliances to reconcile matters relating to fortune, but very little is paid to the congeniality of dispositions, or to the accordance of hearts. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

We die every day; every moment deprives us of a portion of life and advances us a step toward the grave; our whole life is only along and painful sickness. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

Agreeable advice is seldom useful advice. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

True charity is liable to excesses and transports. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

Some biblical scholars believe that the story of the fall from the Garden of Eden was a cultural memory of the transition from foraging to agriculture: "In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread." 79 So why did our foraging ancestors leave Eden? For many, it was never an explicit choice: they had multiplied themselves into a Malthusian trap in which the fat of the land could no longer support them, and they had to grow their food themselves. The states emerged only later, and the foragers who lived at their frontiers could either be absorbed into them or hold out in their old way of life. For those who had the choice, Eden may have been just too dangerous. A few cavities, the odd abscess, and a couple of inches in height were a small price to pay for a fivefold better chance of not getting speared — Steven Pinker

Every Christian is born great because he is born for heaven. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally. — Alison Krauss

Author Malcolm Gladwell believes that one can be an expert at something after putting in ten thousand hours of practice. — Anonymous

Take time, slow down, be still, be awake to the Divine Mystery that looks so common and so ordinary yet is wondrously present. — Edward Hays

Charity is that sweet-smelling savor of Jesus Christ, which vanishes and is extinguished from the moment that it is exposed. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

Nothing is more detestable than a professed declaimer who retails his discourses as a quack does his medicines. — Jean Baptiste Massillon

Love is not a sentiment or an emotion. It's the fact that we're all the same being in different disguises. — Deepak Chopra

We rob ourselves when we make decisions in the moment with no thought of how those decisions will impact our futures. — Andy Stanley

Yes, great God, these torrents of tears which flow down from my eyes announce thy divine presence in my soul. This heart hitherto so dry, so arid, so hard; this rock which thou hast struck a second time, will not resist thee any longer, for out of it there now gushes healthful waters in abundance. The selfsame voice of God which overturns the mountains, thunders, lightens, and divides the heaven above, now commands the clouds to pour forth showers of blessings, changing the desert of his soul into a field producing a hundredfold; that voice I hear. — Jean Baptiste Massillon