Best 11 quotes of James Gibbons on MyQuotes

A critic is a man who expects miracles.

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

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

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

Like all valuable commodities, truth is often counterfeited.

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

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

There are no office hours for leaders.

There are no working hours for leaders.

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.

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.