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.

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.

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

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

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!

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.

Disaffection, once begun, acquires a momentum of its own,

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

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

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

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.

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!

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

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

A new heartbeat begins with Jesus

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

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.

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.

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

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

President Kennedy would have been better served if he had remembered from his days as a junior officer in the Navy that the closer one gets to a fight, the more one learns of its essence.

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.

The “Yes—But!” comes from a fear of not being able to accomplish a project, so the natural tendency is to slow down, and as a leader, I must give vision, and I must move my team from the “Yes—But!” to the “Yes—We will get it done!

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.

We unintentionally bring a false sense of self when we approach God

Our false sense of self is tied up in what we do, what we have done and what we accomplish

What we see and know will become terminus when kissed by eternity

Hour by hour, we build our relationship of love with God, beginning with days and nights of intercourse with Him through His word, worship, praise, and communion as we lay before His feet intercession for those around us.

I often find God’s great wisdom outside of His Holy word in the world around me being often strange and wonderful at the same time teaching me that nature has a similarity with the grace of God.

When I read God’s word and then look upon the nature around me, I see the wonders that God does in my heart as He shows me natures parallels to His word turning His written word into a book of illustrations in living wonders before me as my soul takes flight in all this glory before me.

How observant have you been today, yesterday, last week, all this month? Not so much! Then you have missed nature teaching you and sharing with you the truths of God’s Word (Matthew 6:26–30; Mark 13:28, 29; Romans 1:20; 1 Corinthians 11:14, 15).

Your forgiveness is in response to the unbelievable and undeserved forgiveness that Christ offers you and if you don't forgive you are unforgiven Matthew 6:15

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

Being here, living on earth and not in Heaven, is the very proof that God is calling you out to walk the narrow way pulling in others from the far left and the far right is the proof you have work to do for Christ

As a Christian, you are carving Christ name upon human hearts so be careful how you represent Christ to others

Lansdale became the Agency’s expert on guerrilla warfare and countersubversion. He also acquired something more important in government than recognized expertise: a mystique, a reputation for being able to perform miracles.

When inspecting barracks he insisted that the coal stacked in the bins at the back slope down at a perfect angle. He would not tolerate a single piece out of line. This was one of several tricks he had put together over the years to train and discipline troops to perfection. He was not a martinet, despite his eccentricities. He had the good commander’s knack for instilling pride in his troops, and he showed them kindness and consideration. His rough side, a frankness to the point of brutality, was reserved for his equals and his superiors.

George Jacobson had disciplined himself during his twenty-four years in the Army to study the character and mindset of a superior in order to avoid futile clashes with idiosyncrasies and preconceptions.

To burn the helicopters would be another act of great psychological value, and the battalion commander did not want to surrender the opportunity lightly.

The narrow way for each of us is unique. You do not have to run my narrow path, and I do not have to run your narrow way. The glory is that each of us can finish the narrow way "marked out for us" because the course laid out for us by our sovereign, omniscient God is perfect for us as we walk, run or even crawl according to the written word of God we will hear "Well Done!

This was an army that shared a confidence too in its weapons and in its combat skills. The world was a tactical map to these men. They were prepared to fight any enemy at any grid coordinate.

Bowers had noticed on earlier operations that the ARVN noncoms, unlike their officers, seemed to welcome help and thought an American sergeant enough of a cut above them so that they could blame him if things went wrong.

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 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.

Inflation was held to between 50 and 60 percent a year, mainly by more than doubling the commodity imports AID financed for the South Vietnamese economy ($ 650 million in 1966) and by shipping millions of tons of American rice to a country that had been able to export rice as recently as 1964.

Beneath Ba’s bravado, he was a conservative man. He did not lack courage. Neither was he a professional risk-taker like Vann. He had been an officer in a colonial army that had lost its war. He was fighting this second war for the Tory regime of his class. He was doing precisely what could be expected of a man who had grown up in a system where, when in doubt, the best thing to do was to do nothing. He was stalling.

after his second and more satisfying career in the service of the American state, the furniture of Ellsworth Bunker’s mind had settled into place. It was impossible for him not to see Vietnam in the perspective of the Caribbean and Central America.

I had read the official reports. I knew by then that official reports were never enough to explain John Vann. There was always more to his story.

We come to the cross and receive forgiveness, and now “Now we believe.” But do we? For as it was in the days of Jesus “The time is coming when you will leave Me alone,” said Jesus, and yet most did leave Him as many have today! So are you on the narrow way or are you on the other way called the narrow way?

Social Distancing is Social Solidarity? Strange is it not as the powers to say that "Social Distancing is Social solidarity" and yet "Social solidarity" means in it its basic form coming together! Why do you think we were given Hebrews 10:25 and yet our Government and Big Corporations what us to be united on Social Distancing and in so doing we give up our power over them!

Christians stand for Christ, representing His good and acceptable will but by the practice of sin you make a mockery of all that is true

The regenerating power of God is only found in the narrow way as this is the way separated unto Christ.

You are useless to GOD as you make a practice of sin, earthliness, and selfishness but when you truly surrender to GOD along the narrow way and turn from your sin earthliness and selfishness begin to fade away.

As you look around your life are you not just seeing shadows, things of yesterday? But in Christ, your substance is found in the unseen!

In Christ, the foundation of our faith is unseen, and yet He will make Himself very well known to us.

Never forget; the Judas of life are fit for death, prepared for judgment by God but let your heart be free in the forgiveness of the hurt and wrong done to you as the trump sounds you will be found with the redeemed!

We often let pride lift us up as if our own pride has the power to save our souls when all it does is bring of low in the eyes of God.

Standing in the light of mercy undeserved I come to understand a Love of God than no one can measure!

My mercy given to me was not asked for though I sought it mercy found me first and then embraced me with the love of God.

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.

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.

Armies, like human beings, are not capable of what is not in them.

John Vann had learned a lot in two and a half years in the Army. The most important thing he had learned was that he was a different person in this uniform. When he had this uniform on he wasn’t little Johnny Vann or LeGay or what’s-his-name, the bastard kid of that good-timer Myrtle down at the end of the bar. He was Lieutenant John Paul Vann of the U.S. Army Air Corps. The Army and the war had freed him in a way that Ferrum could not do from that trash-filled house in Norfolk, and he wasn’t ever going back into it again.

My faith laced with the practice of sin is no faith at all, but it is a sin that rules and not faith because all I have done is changed the name of sin to faith!

The worst of all sins in the body of Christ is actions of faith that is no faith at all

You never hurt me any more than I wanted to be hurt,” Vann said.

Many admire Jesus and practice sin: others respect Jesus and practice sin; Some even reverence Jesu and practice sin, but none of this is a passionate love for the Lord Jesus because this kind of love requires obedience.

Have you ever considered being a morally spontaneous creation, or are you just a manufactured practicer of sin? Only one is born again!

True faith in Christ turns you into a glow worm ablaze and glowing for the glory of God through Christ.

Yellow and brown men forgot in listening to the rhetoric of American presidents that the United States was a status quo power with a great capacity to rationalize arrangements that served its status quo interests.

God is concerned about life and not our personal property and possessions.

We have no time to stand up for ourselves, for we are not being devoted to Christ if we are focused upon being justly dealt with.

Seeking justice in this world is such a selfish thing but giving justice reflects being a child of God.

If a child of God is seeking justice, we indulge in self-pity, and self-pity is a relative of pride, and pride just gives no room for God.

If you are focused on protecting your life and your loved ones' lives, you are no longer in God's grace of deliverance.

Funny thing about self, it loves to be enthroned with its own understanding that we often rename God because pride will always lean to its own knowledge instead of trusting God with all our hearts.

Authentic leadership gives people faith and trust in you even when the impossible seems impossible. Your team becomes more and more stunned in their mindset with each success, daring enough to trust in your direction and character as a leader.

If you get into the habit of doing a thing in the physical, you will do it every time until you break the “Yes—But!” pattern determinedly; and the same is true in the unseen world of our teams thought process as they learn again and again you will get up to what goals are set before you because every time we surrender to the “Yes—But!” we will come to the point until we abandon resolutely and fail in our leadership.

Anytime we get the “Yes—But!” as leaders, we have not given them clear leadership with vision leaving doubt and slowing the process of project success, and if the “Yes—But!” is birth from rebellion, it can not last with a team driven towards success.

Leadership and the “Yes—But!” Often in the workforce, we get the “Yes—But!” from our team members that takes me into the thought, “Do I have a team member who is in rebellion towards authority, or do I have an honest “Yes—But!” birth from fear of failure? As my mind does wander, I consider when those in authority over me tells me to do something which is an enormous goal; something that seems to be an impossible task; for the day that test my common sense, what would I do, do I just hang back? That is exactly what my team will do if I fail to deal with the “Yes—But!” that is before me.

Always finish Well in all you do and when frustrated...slow down and pause, giving the frustrated time to transition back into finishing well, an intentional life cycle we can all choose

For most Christians, our work for God is just a counterfeit to look like spiritual activity