John Sheehan Quotes

Count Your Blessings And Not Your Depressings

The trouble with this country,” the late John Berryman once told fellow poet James Dickey, “is that a man can live his entire life without knowing whether or not he is a coward.

In the garden of God, you will find it filled with flowers (we are those flowers) that open at eventide when the Spirit calls.

When a church caters to the masses they become a body of feel-good, hell-bound worshipers of false gods and not a people of the narrow way

Bow Your Heads If You Are Over It! Stand To Your Feet As A Solder By, In, And Through Christ And Fight The Good Fight No Matter The Cost! When You Are Over It Then You Truly Can Be An Apostle Of Christ!

Lansdale was a victim in Vietnam of his success in the Phillipines. Men who succeed at an enterprise of great moment often tie a snare for themselves by assuming that they have discovered some universal truth.

That I may understand whatever binds the world's innermost core together, see all its workings, and its seeds. - Faust

On the back of a quarter it says trust in God; Have you?

A new heartbeat begins with Jesus

See the face of God today - The one you are looking down to!

Shores of life are truly the safer way but the deep waters test the faith be it man-made or God-given

Anything that competes with loyalty to Jesus Christ must be stopped, and if not, the result is eternal consequences.

Check yourself and ask, am I more devoted to service than having an intimate relationship with God, and if so, please redirect before you wreck yourself!

Gratitude changes everything forgets injuries, never forget kindnesses. Find the good and praise it and when you do you will find yourself in the throne room of God

Every blessing ignored becomes a curse and every curse takes you away from God and the further away you get the blinder you become to His goodness.

When a pastor is led by what people demand of them and not what God demands of them a shepherd turns into a wolf

Are You Sick Of It America? Call Upon Jesus And You Will Find The Healing You Need Spiritually, Physically, And Mentally!

Rise In Revolution Church As You Bow Before The King Of Kings In Your Weakness Watching His Glory Flow Through You In His Power And Might.

Grace was against my will till God's grace changed me to accept His grace!

Vann had a practiced eye for loneliness. He walked over to her and said that she was pretty and complimented her on her clothes.

As I look at the man in the mirror, I find I must bow before God in speechless gratitude for not giving me what I deserved.

When our focus is on property and possession, we are subject to panic, heartbreak, and distress.

Keep Them Open To God; Your heart, mind, and soul because the floodgates are open, and the water is out. You just never know when grace will seep in.

Your degree of panic is determined by the degree of faith in God to take care of you!

As we journey along the narrow way we are often taught how to balance God and our life but in the true walk with God, He is not to be balanced in our life but in control of our life! Matthew 22:37!

You can preach a truth without feeling the truth for yourself and in this danger you must step back till the Lord makes His truth real in your heart if not you will become hardened and miss the mark of the narrow way.

Hardened in heart, without God, and without Christ was what I once was then when mercy found me, it gave me Gods love, and now I am a child of God and what I once was can no longer be found for all that you see now is the mercy of God!

Matt 5:38–42 brings it home Jesus said back down if it means losing face. Jesus is describing a much more humble attitude than the one that hurt us—one that perhaps includes a tacit recognition of the other person’s hurt or anger over your own.

Alternative False Life-Styles Once saved always saved; Just a sinner saved by grace; Once an addict, always an addict; No sin can separate us from the love of God; God understands sin All alternatives leading away from our responsibility of tuning away from sin!

Think and thank about what is to come saint The day you stand in astonishment when the veil is lifted, the souls that have been reaped by you because of what Christ has done through you all because you had been in the habit of just simply going out into the world as Jesus said!

So I go about singing God's praises throughout the day Along with drinking, swearing, gossiping, getting high, lying, watching "R" rated movies, something is wrong with my heart, and it shows through the practice of sin is covered in praise to God Think Isaiah 29:13 & Matthew 15:8

I once prayed for grace, but it did not find me; I walked the streets to find the grace that was hiding from me, and yet it still could not be found, so I stopped looking for the grace that always seems out to run me falling to my knees grace did find me causing me to repent of my sins so it could save me!

So many are looking for the Illumination version of self. I’m a healer, I’m a prophet, I’m a pastor, I need money, I need to be noticed, I’m popular online, so I must be right all the while the everyday stuff of ordinary life exhibiting the marvel of the grace of God is what we are called to be for the rest only get’s a “Depart from me!” Matthew 7:21-23.

Prevost was an imaginative gladiator of the air. He persuaded Vann to give him a pair of the new lightweight Armalite rifles, officially designated the AR-15 and later to be designated the M-16 when the Armalite was adopted as the standard U.S. infantry rifle. The Army was experimenting with the weapon and had issued Armalites to a company of 7th Division troops to see how the soldiers liked it and how well it worked on guerrillas. (The Armalite had a selector button for full or semiautomatic fire and shot a much smaller bullet at a much higher velocity than the older .30 caliber M-1 rifle. The high velocity caused the small bullet to inflict ugly wounds when it did not kill.) Prevost strapped the pair of Armalites to the support struts under the wings of the L-19 and invented a contrivance of wire that enabled him to pull the triggers from the cockpit to strafe guerrillas he sighted. He bombed the Viet Cong by tossing hand grenades out the windows.

If I had a better job, supervisor, pay, more time, less time, and the list goes on mentality. You are not accepting the fact you have to do you! Your career is yours and yours alone, and ultimately your decisions, your thoughts are your responsibility and not the amount of pay you get or what others get, what others do or do not do. Blaming takes time and energy away from you, your assigned job, and above all, your career potential leaving you with “ever failing” hand in hand towards the unemployment line!

When Gene Crutchfield brought his troubled friend to Hopkins in 1938, Hopkins was twenty-four years old and in charge of LeKies Memorial, the Methodist church in the Atlantic City neighborhood. He had taken over the parish the year before and wore a mustache to try to make himself look older. It complemented his horn-rimmed glasses and added a bit of distinction to an otherwise unimpressive medium height and build. Hopkins’s father and grandfather had been Methodist ministers, but tradition was not the reason he had dropped out of law school and entered the ministry. He had been attracted by the ideas then being promoted within the Methodist Church in Virginia. They were ideas of the kind that are now taken for granted in American life—nutrition and welfare support for dependent children; free medical care for the impoverished and the aged; the right of workers to organize a union, to receive a minimum wage, to strike; interracial cooperation.

Stormy lived more life in one night than most people do their whole lives. She was a force of nature. She taught me that love--” My eyes well up and I start over. “Stormy taught me that love is about making brave choices every day. That’s what Stormy did. She always picked love; she always picked adventure. To her they were one and the same. And now she’s off on a new adventure, and we wish her well.” From his seat on the couch, John wipes his eyes with his sleeve. I give Janette a nod, and she gets up and presses play on the stereo, and “Stormy Weather” fills the room. “Don’t know why there’s no sun up in the sky…” After, John shoulders his way over to me, holding two plastic cups of fruit punch. Ruefully he says, “I’m sure she’d tell us to spike it, but…” He hands me a cup, and we clink. “To Edith Sinclair McClaren Sheehan, better known as Stormy.” “Stormy’s real name was Edith? It’s so serious. It sounds like someone who wears wool skirts and heavy stockings, and drinks chamomile tea at night. Stormy drank cocktails!” John laughs. “I know, right?” “So then where did the name Stormy come from? Why not Edie?” “Who knows?” John says, a wry smile on his lips. “She’d have loved your speech.” He gives me a warm, appreciative sort of look. “You’re such a nice girl, Lara Jean.

Patton had been a reflective man, an extraordinarily well-read student of wars and military leaders, ancient and modern, with a curiosity about his war to match his energy. No detail had been too minor or too dull for him, nor any task too humble. Everything from infantry squad tactics to tank armor plate and chassis and engines had interested him. To keep his mind occupied while he was driving through a countryside, he would study the terrain and imagine how he might attack this hill or defend that ridge. He would stop at an infantry position and look down the barrel of a machine gun to see whether the weapon was properly sited to kill counterattacking Germans. If it was not, he would give the officers and men a lesson in how to emplace the gun. He had been a military tailor’s delight of creased cloth and shined leather, and he had worn an ivory-handled pistol too because he thought he was a cavalier who needed these trappings for panache. But if he came upon a truck stuck in the mud with soldiers shirking in the back, he would jump from his jeep, berate the men for their laziness, and then help them push their truck free and move them forward again to battle. By dint of such lesson and example, Patton had formed his Third Army into his ideal of a fighting force. In the process he had come to understand the capabilities of his troops and he had become more knowledgeable about the German enemy than any other Allied general on the Western Front. Patton had been able to command with certainty, overcoming the mistakes that are inevitable in the practice of the deadly art as well as personal eccentricities and public gaffes that would have ruined a lesser general, because he had always stayed in touch with the realities of his war.

There will be no end to theological book publishing because the bible is the living word and as we study it our hearts, minds, and soul evolves (especially from a simple to a more complex) around it

Don’t give away your freedom in Christ by judging another

Leave time for your soul to breathe the breath of God today

Step up your spiritual game - Embrace your identity as a son or daughter of God

I will follow the Jesus method of KISS; Keep It Simply Simple!

When the world stands against you break out your spiritual pepper spray - The promises of God!

If you are not being corrected by God you are not His child; you are the spawn of Satan your father!

We must go through many hardships to enter the kingdom of God - if you are not suffering you are in the pleasure of sin. Acts 14:22.

Evil Whispers - what you do after the whisper determines your sin or victory

Telling people Jesus loves them is a lie if you are not showing them!

Many are looking for Christ return with the gift of eternal salvation but few read His word that teaches the conditions of salvation

Leaving the scars of you receiving the scars of love from above will set you free

Forget revival; It's time for a spiritual revolution of revelation!

Through blood, we are family, through blood we've been set free. Through blood, we have become one! Christ blood united as one!

The deception of sin is that it does not look like sin till after it is committed

False friends are a poison that kills

The trouble with this country, the late John Berryman once told fellow poet James Dickey, is that a man can live his entire life without knowing whether or not he is a coward.

He had scribbled a note in pencil giving Patton authority to assume command of the four American divisions in Tunisia the moment he landed there, and Patton had taken off again directly for the front. Eisenhower had followed up his note with a memorandum of instructions. Patton was not to keep ' for one instant' any officer who was not up to the mark. 'We cannot afford to throw away soldiers and equipment ... and effectiveness' out of unwillingness to injure 'the feelings of old friends,' Eisenhower had written. Ruthlessness of this kind toward acquaintances often required difficult moral courage, Eisenhower continued, but he expected Patton 'to be perfectly cold-blooded about it.' The first old acquaintance to go had been the general who had commanded at Kasserine, a man whom Eisenhower had rated, prior to the start of the serious shooting, as his best combat leader after Patton. This general had been shipped home to spend the rest of the war excercising his top-notch paper qualifications as an elevated drill instructor.

The monks fought back in a Vietnamese way. On the morning of June 11, 1963, a seventy-three-year-old monk named Quang Duc sat down in the middle of a Saigon intersection a few blocks from Ambassador Nolting's residence. He crossed his legs in the lotus position of meditation while another monk poured gasoline from a five-gallon plastic container over his shaven head, soaking his orange robe. The old monk's hands moved swiftly when he lifted them from his lap to strike the match, lighting his body into a symbol of anger and sacrifice and setting ablaze the tinder of resentment in the urban centers of the South ... A photograph of Quang Duc's suicide taken by Malcolm Browne, the Saigon bureau chief of the Associated Press, astonished the American public and international opinion and embarrassed the Kennedy administration.

Malcolm Browne managed to take a photograph of Arnett [AP's Peter Arnett] standing behind Halberstam for protection a moment later, just before another plainclothesman sneaked up behind Browne and smashed his camera with a rock. The rock did not damage the film inside. The Surete men backed off. They apparently had orders not use clubs, and they decided Halberstam was too much for them hand to hand. The uniformed police did not intervene

Lieutenant Calley, who herded many of his victims into an irrigation ditch and filled it with their corpses, was the only officer or soldier to be convicted of a crime. He was charged with personally killing 109 Vietnamese. A court-martial convicted him of the premeditated murder of at least twenty-two, including babies, and sentenced him to life in prison at hard labor. President Nixon intervened for him. Calley was confined for three years, most of the time under house arrest in his apartment at Fort Benning with visitation rights for a girlfriend.

I am found to understand that most in the body of Christ seek to get near God’s highest as we can and yet we do not see an “as we can” found in scripture but we do have the triumph in Christ spoken of in 2 Cor. 2:14 to render us at “God’s highest!

Spiritual growth is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice, and most of all, love must be your driving force; a love so deep and grand you can no longer help yourself.

Stick with it. Lean into the challenge. even a small improvement in your success could give you the motivational boost you need to study harder each time you embrace scripture, kick-starting a virtual cycle of increasingly moving closer in your relationship with God! We believe in you, but most importantly God believes in you!

If you are a writer Whether it be professional, amateur, poems, novels, or even just interesting social media posts, let those words, that ink, bleed from your heart through the pen to the paper like the words of forgiveness did upon a cross of Calvary! Whenever you write because you “have to,” you are just putting ink in a pattern of words unable to change hearts around you. But when that pen near your heart begins to bleed the words for you to share with others, you have created art. You have put a part of your soul on display. No matter how much it may be criticized or acclaimed, that is your work, your blood, and it should be a sacrifice given for God's glory.

Today's evangelist turns one’s faith more or less into a private oddity shaped by wealth and wellness and salesmen’s instincts for gold and silver rather than by scriptural facts that Christianity is a way of life that does not make a practice of sin.

POWERFUL MESSAGE, POWERLESS MESSENGER, IS WHAT WE NEED BEHIND THE PULPIT TODAY!

Today we have impressive performances behind the pulpit. Yet, this remarkable stage show has no power to change a person into becoming Christ-like but can produce men and women into the likeness of eternal damnation.

From a KISS point of view, "Keep It Simple Silly" is a gospel message that has the power to change the hearer into a living example of Christ-Likeness!

Your teaching, preaching, and discipling can not be built upon your feelings of confidence or insecurity. Your motivation to communicate the gospel message must be made upon the message of Christ Jesus, being the only way to save a soul from eternal damnation.

Your success as a leader for your employer is not about how many of your organization's training programs you have taken but how you lead your team(s) towards productivity, profitability, and service quality, even if this is not recognized by your employer at first for, they will in time even if you have moved on!

Righteousness is something you must allow the Holy Spirit to work in your life; if not, you are allowing evil and sinful thoughts to grow in your heart, mind, and soul!

Our leadership lives in a bubble called the "Never, never land," meaning they will never accept responsibility for making bad decisions because they are a people who are woke and "we the people" are asleep, so they think and believe but "we the people" are united and woke!

As a born-again believer, I desire always to be the kindest version of Jesus our Christ, but daily stressors and distractions sometimes get the best of me—preventing me from giving my all in Christlikeness Kindness. Each time the message is the same, I need to slow down and take advantage of the many opportunities I have every day to extend a little kindness to others as unto Christ, for it only takes a few more minutes to honor God with this gift to others. Before I know it, this same kindness comes my way, making my day a little brighter!

Magsaysay’s

Take Your Heart Medicine - Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD" (Psalm 27:14)

I fight selfish desires every day; for I've learned once we taste of the forbidden fruits of the flesh Galatians 5:19-21; like thorns in our side the temptations will always be present, but not feeding them simply makes them weak and frail Romans 8:13

Love = Living Onwardly Victoriously Eternally

More Prayer=Less Gossip simply does say in the language of God “I Love You!

Surely we must be able to discern our own lack of righteousness to take upon the sure righteousness of Christ.

Just love slaying dragons, crushing heads of serpents, and beheading giants in our way as we travel in time into eternity with God in us, beside us, and all around us!

Its spiritual revolution time; warrior up and let's get some for the Kingdom and slay them giants of sin and shame, marching upward for God is with us! Push Through church, push through!

Just words of mercy or touches of kindness can take a sad heart into singing Jesus love me

The quieter we become the more we can hear the love language of God speaking to our hearts.

What a glorious day it is today; We are closer to Christ return than yesterday and a day closer to answered prayer today

Jesus is the fulfillment of life that each of us seeks - tried the rest, now try the best

Delighting in God’s Word while savoring a sunrise leaves time for miracles!

Christianity Life sentence with a death penalty and full pardon

Jesus explained his identity and mission through his interpretation of the Old Testament and expected his disciples to see him in the words of the Old Testament Luke 24:25–27

Most books of the Bible address the people of God, whether in the Old Testament or the New, and we should read them in that context to fully understand the prophetic words of 1 Corinthians 12:12-27

He had not felt any genuine grief until the moment he accepted the flag, because he had hardly known his father and knew even less about what his father had done.

The cockiness of this bantam did not put off Porter, a senior colonel of infantry, large-boned in build and white-haired at fifty-two, whose restrained manner tended to obscure his knowledge of his profession and the firmness of his own character.

Cao reveled in the acclaim and the prospect of a general’s stars. “I kill fifty Viet Cong today,” he would announce to reporters coming to the command post. He began to learn the public relations game perhaps too well.

Cao sent the battalions chasing long-gone foxes because he wanted to give the presidential palace the impression he was on the alert. Afterward he would order the battalion back to its base to “rest” instead of returning it to the training center. Training his men for combat was not one of Cao’s priorities. He pretended they were already well trained.

With every breath we take and every last minute we have should be seeking to satisfy God and not God satisfying us!

The life of the narrow Way walker is a life that means untainted by the ways of the world, uncompromising in faith towards God, and wholehearted devotion to the Lord Jesus, a satisfaction to Him wherever He takes us laying down our praises no matter the journey.

So many of us are set upon Jesus Christ satisfying our needs, not realizing we were created to satisfy Him.

The most significant competitor of devotion to Jesus is service for Him. It is easier to serve than to be entangled in the things of the world, but we must take note that the one aim of the call of God is the satisfaction of God, not a call to do something for Him. We are not sent to battle for God but to be used by God in His battling’s.

Investing in our lives can be amazing, producing significant levels of success personally and in business. Still, none offers a greater reward than devoting ourselves to the pursuit of righteousness, being the highest form of success!

When every area in our lives produces right living, success feeds upon this and grows greater in our lives, so much so we can not contian it and must give it to others, causing success to outgive in our lives more significantly than expected.

A mind on the word of God (Romans 12:2) is a mind that reflects the holiness of God in our thoughts, our actions, and our integrity!

Rich Man and Poor Man are just titles that mean nothing at all