Words of Wisdom

Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
~Jim Elliot

You don't have to prove someone wrong to do what you know is right. ~Joshua Harris

Life is 10% what you make it and 90% how you take it. ~P. Dorman

We tend to find what we look for: good or evil, problems or solutions. Whether you think you can or not, you are right. ~Henry Ford

You have to stand for something or you'll fall for anything. (Isaiah7:9)

An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.

We receive freely when we give freely.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Experience is the worst teacher; it gives the test before presenting the lesson. ~Vernon Law

There is no crisis to which academics will not respond with a seminar.

Beware what you set your heart upon. For it surely shall be yours. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. ~Lord Chesterfield

When I have learnt to love God better than I do my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now. ~C.S. Lewis

He who lives well is the best preacher. ~Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. ~Elbert Hubbard

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow grow, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation. ~George Washington

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try. ~Beverly Sills

Tell me with whom you are contending and I'll tell you who you are. ~Goethe

A man does not know what he is saying until he is not saying. ~G.K Chesterton

There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. ~Albert Einstein

Saint Augustine taught that God created the world out of notihng. Creation was like the magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat. Except that God didn't have a rabbit and He didn't even have a hat.
~R.C. Sproul

This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not be false to any man. ~William Shakespeare

Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. ~Henry David Thoreau

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. ~Locke

I am always ready to learn, though I do not always like being taught. ~Winston Churchill

The only way to have a friend is to be one. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is more difficult, and calls for higher energies of soul, to live a martyr than to die one.
~Horace Mann

You will not become discourages if your faith is in God and not in yourself or other people.

Life is very busy. Every once in awhile, it's a good idea to stop and remember the purpose and meaning for which you are living your life.

The entrance of the Word brings light, the entrance of assumption brings ignorance. ~Charles Capps

The happiest people are the ones who don't want things they can't get!

You have to stand for something, or you'll fall for anything.

An attitude of gratitude creates blessings.

We receive freely when we give freely.

In all matters, one must consider the end. ~Jean de la Fontaine, Fables, "Le Renard at le Bouc"

It's a vice to trust all, and equally a vice to trust none. ~Seneca, Letters to Lucilius

It is your time with God that He will prepare and equip you to serve Him...One will naturally serve God out of one's time spent with Him...Spending time with God is the first step to serving Him ~Author unknown

The main trouble is there are too many people who don't know where they're going and they want to get there too fast! (Sylvestor, The Bishop's Wife)

I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the US congress. - Ronald Reagan

"What I do today must be worthwhile because I am exchanging a day of my life for it." (unknown)

"Act honestly, and answer boldly." - Danish proverb

"It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." -Eleanor Roosevelt


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