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Favorite QuotesIt is my intention to offer these quotes and allow the reader to derive whatever value may be found. As with all human utterings, some conclusions may be debatable and some sources dubious. Nevertheless, I believe truth is truth, however questionable the voice which utters them, thus, I will not debate the merits of these quotes, nor apologize for their sources. Instead, I invite you to enjoy and learn whatever you can from these words to the wise and otherwise. |
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Entrance into heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion. Experience is a hard teacher, it tests first and teaches afterward. The church is the only conscience the government has. When the church is silent, the state can have no conscience. Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction. Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions .But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts. We are no more responsible for the evil thoughts that pass through our minds than a scarecrow for the birds which fly over the seedplot he has to guard. The sole responsibility in each case is to prevent them from settling. The strength of a nation is derived from the integrity of its homes. We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. You can't run a society or cope with its problems if people are not held accountable for what they do. To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own. Love is not blind- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one. Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills. Strike from mankind the principles of faith, and man would have no more history than a flock of sheep. Divine love is a sacred flower, which in its early bud is happiness, and in its full bloom is heaven. Those who imagine that the world is against them have generally conspired to make it true. Temptation usually comes in through a door that has deliberately been left open. Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You're able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment. Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. If at first you don't succeed, you are running about average. It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always valueless. Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth. What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion. The universe is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper. Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury. Ideas must work through the brains and the arms of good and brave men, or they are no better than dreams. A liberty to that only which is good, just, and honest. You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him. After all is said and done, more has usually been said than done. The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work. We desire most what we ought not to have There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right then, have it your way." The true test of humility is whether you can say grace before eating crow. Little things console us because little things afflict us. There is no permanent place in [this universe] for evil... Evil may hide behind this fallacy and that, but it will be hunted from fallacy to fallacy until there is no more fallacy for it to hide behind. Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. What this country needs is a man who knows God other than by heresay. As if we could kill time without injuring eternity!! A habit is something you can do without thinking Everything looks impossible for the people who never try anything. You have to be careful about being too careful. Reflect upon your present blessings - of which every man has many- not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some. Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. Doubt isn't the opposite of faith; it is an element of faith. Two men please God: who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not. The defect of equality is that we desire it only with our superiors. He became what we are that He might make us what He is. The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that. An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding. Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. What I kept, I lost; What I spent, I had; What I gave, I have. Love is what you've been through with somebody. Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked. How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. To believe with certainty, we must begin with doubting. There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. Before you let yourself go, be sure you can get yourself back. The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works. I saw about a peck of counterfeit dollars once. Did I go to the window and throw away all my good dollars? No! Yet you reject Christianity because there are hypocrites, or counterfeit Christians. We do not remember days; we remember moments. Sometimes the best way to convince someone he is wrong is to let him have his way. Sin can bring pleasure, but never happiness. Love is not blind- it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less. Want a thing long enough, and you don't. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. To know things as they are is better than to believe things as they seem. Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud. Ideals are like tuning forks: sound them often to bring your life up to standard pitch. -S.D. Gordon All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. As sure as God puts His children in the furnace of affliction, He will be with them in it. People seldom become famous for what they say until after they are famous for what they've done. The woman who thinks no man is good enough for her may be right Good has two meanings: it means both that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody. We commit the Golden Rule to memory and forget to commit it to life. Half the failures in life arise from pulling in one's horse as he is leaping. The trick is to hold opinions without letting opinions hold you. One person with a belief is a social power equal to 99 who have only interests. A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show. A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. A bad conscience embitters the sweetest comforts; a good one sweetens the bitterest crosses. I can do only one thing at a time, but I can avoid doing many things simultaneously. Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. 'I reckon,' he said, with a twinkle in his eye, 'It's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried." Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile. Exasperation is the mind's way of spinning its wheels until patience restores traction. Truth never damages a cause that is just. Never try to make anyone like yourself If we have our own why of life, we can bear almost any how. What we do not understand we do not possess. A year of self-surrender will bring larger blessings than fourscore year of selfishness. Just remember- when you think all is lost, the future remains. The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident. Silence is true wisdom's best reply. Love doesn't just sit there like a stone, it has to be made, like bread; remade all the time, made new. Just remember- when you think all is lost, the future remains. If ever I reach heaven, I expect to find three wonders there: first, to meet some I had not thought to see there; second, to miss some I had expected to see there; and third, the greatest wonder of all, to find myself there. People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it. When we have "second thoughts" about something, our first thoughts don't seem like thoughts at all He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has. Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. Fear not that your life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. I saw a star, I reached for it, I missed. So I accepted the sky. Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it? Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee and just as hard to sleep after. Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom not to strangle the stubborn atheists who can't see You when You're right under their noses! When you are in deep water, it's a good idea to keep your mouth shut. The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely the one who dropped it. To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it. Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors. Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility. Atheism is the death of hope, the suicide of the soul. An argument is the longest distance between two points of view. The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. People are always making rules for themselves and always finding loop- holes. What governs men is the fear of truth. A book, tight shut, is but a block of paper. Every person should have a special cemetery lot in which to bury the faults of friends and loved ones. The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwrap it. If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system. I couldn't wait for success... so I went ahead without it. Abundance consists not so much in material possessions, but in an uncovetous spirit. Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to. OK, so if psychics are real, why do they have to ask you for your name? What is evil? Whatever springs from weakness. God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home. What single ability do we all have? The ability to change. It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can. There are more self-marred people in the world than there are self-made. Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good. Do not pray for easier lives, pray to be stronger men. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers, pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work will be no miracle, but YOU will be a miracle. Do not make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. Better by far you should forget and smile, Than that you should remember and be sad. There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values. Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man. The word "Angel" simply means "messenger." If angels are messengers, then someone, somewhere must be sending a message. One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love. When you speak of heaven, let your face light up... When you speak of hell- well then, your everyday face will do. A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down. If time is not real, then the dividing line between this world and eternity, between suffering and bliss, between good and evil, is also an illusion. A place is yours when you know where all the roads go. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. It is right to be content with what we have, but never with what we are. Absence sharpens love, presence strengthens it. Happiness is a way station between too much and too little. To the victor belong the responsibilities. One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy It is not reason makes faith hard, but life. The work will teach you how to do it. Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves. A habit is something you can do without thinking The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The flame of Christian ethics is still our highest guide. Many people today don't want honest answers insofar as honest means unpleasant or disturbing. They want a soft answer that turneth away anxiety. Too often we seek justice for just us. Faith is love taking the form of aspiration. We are tomorrow's past. People far prefer happiness to wisdom, but that is like wanting to be immortal without getting older. Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence. The truth will ouch. Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. Improvement begins with "I." Justice is truth in action. To think too long about doing a thing often becomes its undoing. We cannot do evil to others without doing it to ourselves. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. We find freedom when we find God; we lose it when we lose Him. The most prominent place in hell is reserved for those who are neutral on the great issues of life. Love does not die easily. It is a living thing. It thrives in the face of all life's hazards, save one- neglect. I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know, the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are. Opinions are flexible prejudices. A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice. Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. Love at first sight is no miracle. When two people have been looking at each other for years that's a miracle. There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire. Love must be learned again and again... Hate needs no instruction, but waits only to be provoked. A man who enjoys responsibility usually gets it. A man who merely likes exercising authority usually loses it. A wise man is one who has finally discovered that there are some questions to which nobody has the answer. Most people are bothered by those passages in Scripture which they cannot understand; but as for me, I always noticed that the passages in Scripture which trouble me most are those which I do understand. If you realize that you aren't as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today. Unless we change direction, we are likely to end up where we are going. Shared joy is double joy and shared sorrow is half-sorrow. One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests. It is possible to give without loving, but it is impossible to love without giving. Conscience is condensed character. The opposite of joy is not sorrow. It is unbelief. You are not a fool just because you have done something foolish Do not let the good things in life rob you of the best things. If moral behavior were simply following rules, we could program a computer to be moral. So great is my veneration for the Bible that the earlier my children begin to read it, the more confident my hope that they will prove useful citizens, and respectful members of society. Our character is but the stamp on our souls of the free choices of good and evil we have made through life. Packed in my skin from head to toe Is one I know and do not know. Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at. Humility is a virtue all men preach, none practice, and yet everybody is content to hear. The master thinks it good doctrine for his servants, the laity for the clergy, and the clergy for the laity. To be upset over what you don't have is to waste what you do have. Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway. People sometimes forget that a rat race can be won only by a rat. All men are idolators, some of fame, others of self-interest, most of pleasure. You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. Our prayers are answered not when we are given what we ask but when we are challenged to be what we can be. Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind. And there 's a lust in man no charm can tame, Of loudly publishing our neighbour's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die. The difference between a hero and a coward is one step sideways. When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther. Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards. People need responsibility. They resist assuming it, but they cannot get along without it. Success may be the ability to be happy with whatever we're stuck with. If you can't excel with talent, triumph with effort. Faith is, in the spiritual realm, what money is in the commercial realm. Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor, to console him for what he is. We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done. He who forgives ends a quarrel. In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing. Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it's letting go. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. The work will wait while you show the child the rainbow, but the rainbow won't wait while you do the work. Fame is a cancer and ego: its seed. I want to look at life in the available light. A man has deprived himself of the best there is in the world who has deprived himself of the Bible. Why is the Atheist's main target always Jesus of Nazareth, and never Buddha, Confucius, or Mohammed? Why is the aspiring athlete's target always the true champion and never the also-rans? Sometimes the best way to convince someone he is wrong is to let him have his way. Laziness is nothing more than resting before you get tired. Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it. If you have made mistakes... there is always another chance for you... you may have a fresh start any moment you chose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down. You cannot climb to salvation on atheistic steppes. The man who speaks positive convictions is worth a regiment of men who are always proclaiming their doubts and suspicions. Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head. - Mignon McLaughlin No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Most men forget God all day and ask Him to remember them at night. Half-truths are like half a brick - they can be thrown farther. Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he hoped not it would grow up and become seed... Or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby. After all is said and done, more has usually been said than done. Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you can see no glory, nor can imagine any, but standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors. There is only misfortune in not being loved; there is misery in not loving. A Truth that's told with bad intent Beats all the Lies you can invent He who has no vision of eternity has no hold on time. May the road rise to meet you May the wind be always at your back May the sun shine warm upon your face And the rain fall soft upon your fields And until we meet again May God hold you in the palm of His hand. The faith that will shut the mouths of lions must be more than a pious hope that they will not bite. We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. Christianity is not a theory or speculation, but a life; not a philosophy of life, but a living presence. There never was found in any age of the world, either philosopher or sect, or law or discipline which did so highly exalt the public good as the Christian faith. Ill gotten gains will be ill spent. Our lives are a manifestation of what we think about God. The only disability in life is a bad attitude. How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever. Whoever wants to be a judge of human nature should study people's excuses. People who invite trouble always complain when it accepts. Happiness is a way station between too much and too little. The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is. A perfect wife is one who doesn't expect a perfect husband. It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. Men do not reject the Bible because it contradicts itself but because it contradicts them. Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic. Patience is the companion of wisdom. Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. If you ask enough people, you can usually find someone who will advise you to do what you were going to do anyway. No man will learn anything at all, unless he first will learn humility. Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. Marriages may be made in heaven, but man is responsible for the maintenance work. Dig the well before you are thirsty. The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depends on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life True humility is not an abject, groveling, self-despising spirit; it is but a right estimate of ourselves as God sees us. The happiest people are less forgetting and more forgiving. The unexamined life is not worth living. My life is in the hands of any fool who makes me lose my temper. No man, for any considerable time, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true. God has two dwellings: one in heaven, and the other in a meek and thankful heart. Few wishes come true by themselves. Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. 'Tis not where we lie, but whence we fell; The loss of heaven's the greatest pain in hell. If Jesus Christ were to come today people would not even crucify him. The would ask him to dinner, hear what he has to say, and make fun of it. I have always held firmly to the thought that each one of us can do a little to bring some portion of misery to an end. It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing. A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a "Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble. Some people always sigh in thanking God. Worriers spend a lot of time shoveling smoke. When death comes to me it will find me busy, unless I am asleep. If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. Crowding a life does not always enrich it. There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest. Happiness is not a reward- it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment- it is a result. Whenever you find you are on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. Patience is the companion of wisdom. Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. - Gilb People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around. Efficiency is intelligent laziness. Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love." Life's real failure is when you do not realize how close you were to success when you gave up. A perfect wife is one who doesn't expect a perfect husband. The first and almost the only book deserving of universal attention is the Bible. I speak as a man of the world. There are two freedoms: the false where a man is free to do what he likes; and the true where a man is free to do what he ought. The great advantage of telling the truth is that one is so much more likely to sound convincing. Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent. The two words "information" and "communication" are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through. If life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels, it is a victory to him who believes. Suspicion often creates what it suspects. An atheist is a man who looks through a telescope and tries to explain what he can't see. In order to see Christianity, one must forget all the Christians. Your friend is that man who knows all about you, and still likes you. There is no man so good who, were he to submit all his thoughts and actions to the law, would not deserve hanging ten times in his life. A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic. If you cannot feed a hundred people, then feed just one. No amount of good deeds can make us good persons. We must be good before we can do good. Learning is not attained by chance. It must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence. Churches will take longer to achieve integration because they are undertaking a much greater accomplishment. Worshiping together is a more personal thing than riding trains or attending movies together. Tolerance is not enough; it must be real brotherhood or nothing. The strength and happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going that way too. Youth is when you blame all your troubles on your parents; maturity is when you learn that everything is the fault of the younger generation. If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record. A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes. It is no use saying, "We are doing our best." You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary. The eyes shout what the lips fear to say. Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease. People in distress will sometimes prefer a problem that is familiar to a solution that is not. Fate leads the willing, and drags along those who hang back. The cross is "I" crossed out. Whatever man loves, that is his god. For he carries it in his heart; he goes about with it night and day; he sleeps and wakes with it, be it what it may Never close your lips to those to whom you have opened your heart. No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you. Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts. The hardest thing in the world to open is a closed mind. Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it. A closed mouth gathers no foot. It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can do only a little. Do what you can. I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when I am not feeling it. I believe in God even when He is silent. Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear; not absence of fear. The impossible is often the untried. Do not let the good things in life rob you of the best things. Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen. What single ability do we all have? The ability to change. Neither genius, fame, nor love show the greatness of the soul. Only kindness can do that. To see what is right and not do it is want of courage. The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. The gift of happiness belongs to those who unwrap it. A ship in harbor is safe - but that is not what ships are for. A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but, after a while, knows something. Gratitude is from the same root word as grace- the boundless mercy of God. Thanksgiving is from the same root word as think, so to think is to thank. The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid. If you cannot win, make the one ahead of you break the record. Happiness is not the end of life; character is. Love and hatred are natural exaggerators. We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided. Sentimentality is no indication of a warm heart. Nothing weeps more copiously than a chunk of ice. Do not make friends who are comfortable to be with. Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up. Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and the wrong. Sometime in your life you will have been all of these. Fame is a cancer and ego: its seed. They say TV really is still in its infancy, which helps to explain why you have to get up so often to change it. An old mystic says somewhere, "God is an unutterable sigh in the innermost depths of the soul." With still greater justice, we may reverse the proposition, and say the soul is a never ending sigh after God. A lie has speed, but truth has endurance. There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away. The truth is not always dressed for the evening. The only freedom I care about is the freedom to do right; the freedom to do wrong I am ready to part with. Friends, though absent, are still present. Some people think it's holding on that makes one strong. Sometimes it's letting go. We can often endure an extra pound of pain far more easily than we can suffer the withdrawal of an ounce of accustomed pleasure. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. To err is human; to admit it, superhuman. Have you noticed that even the busiest people are never too busy to take time to tell you how busy they are? Marriages may be made in heaven, but man is responsible for the maintenance work. If anything is worth doing, it is worth telling someone how to do it well. Good luck is with the man who doesn't include it in his plan. You can't test courage cautiously. Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable. Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less. Sometimes I think I understand everything... Then I regain consciousness. Love is what you've been through with somebody. Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom. We bring the atoms of sin to the cross where they are smashed. You can't expect a person to see eye to eye with you when you're looking down on him. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. One advantage of marriage is that, when you fall out of love with him or he falls out of love with you, it keeps you together until you fall in again. Many people feel "guilty" about things they shouldn't feel guilty about, in order to shut out feelings of guilt about things they should feel guilty about. The man who bows the lowest in the presence of God stands the straightest in the presence of sin. -Author Unknown Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work. All mankind is divided into three classes: those who are immovable, those who are movable; and those who move. Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind... From this moment onward you can be an entirely different person, filled with love and understanding, ready with an outstretched hand, uplifted and positive in every thought and deed. There is not a heart that but has its moments of longing, yearning for something better. The quickest way to become an old dog is to stop learning new tricks. Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try. The pleasure we derive from doing favors is partly in the feeling it gives us that we are not altogether worthless. If there were no hell, no one would worry about heaven. While faith makes all things possible, it is love that makes all things easy. There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. Where belief is painful, we are slow to believe. A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with the wind. A new broom sweeps clean, but the old brush knows the corners. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't. He became what we are that He might make us what He is. Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. If God were not willing to forgive sin, heaven would be empty. Our Creator would never have made such lovely days and have given us the deep hearts to enjoy them unless we were meant to be immortal. Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment- but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine. If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. The most valuable talent is that of never using two words when one will do. Patience often gets the credit that belongs to fatigue. I always prefer to believe the best of everybody If we seek God for our own good and profit, we are not seeking God. In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it. How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is Humility. There is no truth existing which I fear, or would wish unknown to the whole world. Never let a man imagine that he can pursue a good end by evil means, without sinning against his own soul. The evil effect on himself is certain. Far away, there in the sunshine, are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they may lead. Adversity is the diamond dust heaven polishes its jewels with. Power doesn't corrupt people. People corrupt power. It is necessary for us to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself. I am not what I think I am. I am not what you think I am. I am what I think you think I am. Courage is like love We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff. Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding. For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair. God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame. If your dreams turn to dust... vacuum. Gratitude is the heart's memory. To get to heaven, turn right and keep straight. Sainthood emerges when you can listen to someone's tale of woe and not respond with a description of your own. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. Love is an act of faith, and whoever is of little faith is also of little love. "I can forgive but I cannot forget," is only another way of saying, "I cannot forgive." A man without God is not like a cake without raisins; he is like a cake without the flour and milk; he lacks the essential ingredients... It is never a question with any of us of faith or no faith; the question is always in what or whom do we put our faith. I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps- we must step up the stairs. Have you noticed that even the busiest people are never too busy to take time to tell you how busy they are? It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment. The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is just as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything. Everybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. "How do you know so much about everything?" was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was "By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant." Everyone complains of his memory, and nobody complains of his judgment. Know what is evil, no matter how worshipped it may be. Let the man of sense not mistake it, even when clothed in brocade, or at times crowned in gold, because it cannot thereby hide its hypocrisy, for slavery does not lose its infamy, however noble the master. Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see. A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. We evaluate others with a Godlike justice, but we want them to evaluate us with a Godlike compassion. Show me the man you honor, and I will know what kind of man you are. Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin. "Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives." Never undertake anything for which you would not have the courage to ask the blessing of Heaven. We are but tenants and.. Shortly the great Landlord will give us notice that our lease has expired. Time is a versatile performer. It flies, marches on, heals all wounds, runs out, and will tell. If there is anything we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is something that could better be changed in ourselves. We need to learn to set our course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. The Lord is my shepherd, that's all I want. The soldiers fight, and the kings are heroes. Prosperity is not without many It's not a question of who's going to throw the first stone; it's a question of who's going to start building with it. I would rather walk with God in the dark than go alone in the light. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for: it is a thing to be achieved. Frustration is commonly the difference between what you would like to be and what you are willing to sacrifice to become what you would like to be. Life begets life. Energy begets energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich. I have read Plato and Cicero sayings that are very wise and beautiful; but I never read in either of them: "Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden and I will give thee rest." A pedestal is as much a prison as any small space. All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. There's a difference between opinion and conviction. My opinion is something that is true for me personally; my conviction is something that is true for everybody A candle loses none of its light by lighting another candle. There is no better or more blessed bondage than to be a prisoner of hope. Add one small bit to the truth and you inevitably subtract from it. A friend is someone who can see through you and still enjoys the show. People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes. If you truly want to understand something, try to change it. I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it. Let those that love us, love us. And those that don't, may God turn their hearts. And, if He cannot turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles so we may know them by their limping! You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate. They who forgive most, shall be most forgiven. All men are born equal but the tough job is to outgrow it. Time marks us while we are marking time. I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force. There are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them. The main discomfort in being a middle-of-the-roader is that you get sideswiped by partisans going in both directions. Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope. Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear. Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it? The happiest couples are those who spell "us" with a capital "you." Science has promised us truth. It has never promised us either peace or happiness. The more a thing is perfect, the more it feels pleasure and likewise pain. Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life. The question is not whether a doctrine is beautiful but whether it is true. When we wish to go to a place, we do not ask whether the road leads through a pretty country, but whether it is the right road. Errors like straws upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below. A ship in harbor is safe-- but that is not what ships are for. All I have seen teaches me to trust the Creator for all I have not seen. The Past is over for all of us... the Future is promised to none of us. Always put off until tomorrow what you shouldn't do at all. We can forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. A sleeping pill will never take the place of a clear conscience. Time is a circus, always packing up and moving away. The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish? Beauty is in the heart of the beholder. I used to have an open mind but my brains kept falling out. If this age is remembered for anything, it will perhaps be for the speed with which we embrace things and let them go. If it's painful for you to criticize your friends, you're safe in doing it; if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. They do more harm by their evil example than by their actual sin. Faith is kept alive in us, and gathers strength, more from practice than from speculations. The proud man counts his newspaper clippings- the humble man his blessings. As long as I see any thing to be done for God, life is worth having; but O how vain and unworthy it is to live for any lower end! A dear old Quaker lady, distinguished for her youthful appearance, was asked what she used to preserve her appearance. She replied sweetly, 'I use for the lips, truth; for the voice, prayer; for the eyes, pity; for the hand, charity; for the figure, uprightness;and for the heart, love. There is no better or more blessed bondage than to be a prisoner of hope. The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said. A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. Truth hurts The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out. A fool is someone whose pencil wears out before its eraser does. The quickest way to become an old dog is to stop learning new tricks. God gave us our memories so that we might have roses in December. If you risk nothing, then you risk everything. If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress. We're all proud of making little mistakes. It gives us the feeling we don't make any big ones. To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. One of the most difficult things to give away is kindness Time neither subtracts nor divides, but adds at such a pace it seems like multiplication. Looks are so deceptive that people should be done up like food packages with the ingredients clearly labeled. Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us. We all want progress, but if you're on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive. True love is when your heart and your mind are saying the same thing. We can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. No man is free who is a slave to the flesh. Morality does not make a Christian, yet no man can be a Christian without it. Some people treat God like they do a lawyer; they go to Him only when they are in trouble. Blessed is the man who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too sleepy to worry at night. Death is a punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor. If you cannot feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. The best discipline, maybe the only discipline that really works, is self discipline. If you have never been amazed by the very fact that you exist, you are squandering the greatest fact of all. There are times when silence has the loudest voice. If the truth hurts most of us so badly that we don't want it told, it hurts even more grievously those who dare tell it. It is a two-edged sword, often dangerous to the user. To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift. You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper. Pride is tasteless, colorless, and sizeless. Yet it is the hardest thing to swallow. The trick is to hold opinions without letting opinions hold you. The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid. What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion. We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. The heart must be kept tender and pliable; otherwise agnosticism converts to skepticism... for apologetics is aimed at persuading doubters, not at refuting the defiant. He who demands a kind of proof that the nature of the case renders impossible, is determined that no possible evidence shall convince him. Insomuch as any one pushes you nearer to God, he or she is your friend. Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free practice thereof. To have more, desire less. To teach is to learn twice. What sought they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine, The wealth of seas, the spoils of war? They sought a faith's pure shrine. When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us. One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented. Time is swift, it races by; Opportunities are born and die... Still you wait and will not try If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture. We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present. The next moment is as much beyond our grasp, and as much in God's care, as that a hundred years away. Care for the next minute is just as foolish as care for a day in the next thousand years. In neither can we do anything, in both God is doing everything. An atheist's most embarrassing moment is when he feels profoundly thankful for something, but can't think of anybody to thank for it. Never try to make anyone like yourself Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head. Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper. In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. Expect people to be better than they are; it helps them to become better. But don't be disappointed when they are not; it helps them to keep trying. Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they think laughable. |
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