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Human Proverbs and Wisdom
The experiences and thinking of fellow human beings, given for your reading enjoyment and edification. Many of the author’s names are not known, but will be added if they are made known. For the wisdom of God, read The Proverbs in your Bible.

“A divorce is the death of a small civilization.”

“God is not threatened by making you a God; only false gods don’t want you become a God.”

“If you can’t be anything else, be a really good example.”

“One man with courage makes a majority.” – Andrew Jackson

“Before you try to convince anyone else be sure you are convinced, and if you can not convince yourself, drop the subject.” – John H. Patterson

“Only a truly faithful man can afford to question his faith.”

“The power of words is immense. A well-chosen word has often sufficed to stop a flying army, to change defeat into victory, and to save an empire.” – Emile De Girardin

“It is better to live the truth alone, then to live a lie in a group.”

“To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.” – Theodora Roosevelt

“The secret of Happiness is not in doing what one likes to do, but in liking what one has to do.” Sir James M. Barrie

“How you spend your day, is how you spend your life.”

"Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Thomas Jefferson

“Sleep repairs your mind”.

“You give the best to others when you give the best of yourself.”

"Popularity is not the meassure for truth." -- Robert Schmid

“Skepticism is the first step towards truth.”

“The right kind of authority results in the right kind of response.”

“It is better to die with a conviction, than to live with a compromise.”

“With the knowledge of good and evil comes the necessity to become God.” Robert Schmid

“True unity can not be organized into existence.”

“It is far better to divide over truth, than it is to unite over error.”

“It is not until the well runs dry, that we know the worth of water.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Many necessary doctrines of the Christian faith are now being sacrificed to the popular call to ‘unity’.”

“The time has come upon us when the suggestion of ‘sound doctrine’ has become an irritant to many accommodating Christian leaders.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” – Socrates

“There is no universal Fatherhood of God.
There is no universal Brotherhood of man.
But, there is a universal Neighborhood of all men.”

“Keep true, never be ashamed of doing right; decide on what you think is right and stick to it.” George Eliot

“Speech is civilization itself. The Word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact. It is silence which isolates.” – Thomas Mann

“The sin problem can not be resolved. It can only be acknowledged so that God can resolve it.”

Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences.” – Sherwood Eddy

“Keep your thoughts right – for as you think, so you are. Thoughts are things, therefore, think only of the things that will make the world better and you unashamed.” – Henry H. Buckley

“The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditations on the past.” – Andre Mausois

“Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.” – Miguel Cervantes

“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The more that the states (organizations) ‘plan’, the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.”

“Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift.”

“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

“Many people will walk in and out of your life. But only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”

“To handle yourself, use your head. To handle others, use your heart.”

“Anger is only one letter short of danger.”

“If someone betrays you once, it is his fault: If he betrays you twice, it is your fault.”

“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.”

“He, who loses money, loses much; He, who loses a friend, loses much more; He, who loses faith, loses all.”

“The Hymn book of Psalms is the book about Him.”

“There is more in the Bible about how to live the Christian life, then there is about how to become a Christian.”

“Love is not love without Truth and Truth is not Truth without love.”

“A non-witnessing Christian is a contradiction in terms.”

The Spirit of Truth!
Truth frees mankind from fear. With nothing to fear, there is nothing to hate, because hate is a defense against fear.

“The only thing I inherited from Adam and Eve is a desire to decide myself what is right and wrong. I am learning the hard way that I am not capable.”

“If God would approve of today’s permissive society He would have given us the Ten Suggestions, but, He gave us the Ten Commandments.”

“Religion can be an escape, or it can be the answer to your problems, your fears and your questions.”
“Religion should give you self-confidence; it should teach us true love and therefore should make us happy.”
“True Religion should not be a neurosis, but it should be mental health.”

“Hate is always sin! Anger is not sin if directed against sin. Anger should not be directed against people and should always be resolved prior to sunset.”

“How many observe His birthday. How few observe His commandments.
How easy it is to celebrate the world’s holidays. How hard it is to celebrate His holydays.”

“When they came for the Jews, I didn’t speak up because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak up because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I was a Protestant so I didn’t speak up.
Then they came for me. By that time there was no one to speak up for anybody.” – Rev. Martin Niemoeller, Germany 1945

VICIOUS CIRCLE (Teufels Kreis)
All great societies of men have, at one time or another, traveled around the Circle of Civilization. Through well defined steps, each has gone around the circle – some more than once.

1. From Bondage to Collective Unrest.
2. From Collective Unrest to Revolt.
3. From Revolt to Liberty.
4. From Liberty to the Establishment of a New Way of Life.
5. From Establishment of a New Way of Life to Laws Protecting that New Way.
6. From Lawmaking to an Orderly Society.
7. From an Orderly Society to Abundance of Material Things.
8. From Abundance of Material Things to Greed for More.
9. From Greed for More to All-Out Socialism.
10. From All-Out Socialism to Total Dependency.
11. From Total Dependency to Weakness.
12. From Weakness to Bondage.

“One may appear to do the right thing, or may even do the right thing, but if it is not done because it is the right thing, then the reason is egotistical and will be destructive.”

God reveals Himself in five ways:

1. Through and by His Creation.
2. Through and by man’s Conscience.
3. Through and by His Holy Spirit.
4. Through and by His Written Word, the Holy Bible.
5. Through and by His Living Word, Jesus Christ His Firstborn Son.

“By giving man the free gift of a Free Will, God limited Himself of never violating man’s free will. Man is not a Robot.”

The “Body” is an explanation of “God” disproving the Trinity.
ONE body but MANY members. ONE God but MANY children.

A preacher recently announced that there are 86 different kinds of sins. He is now being besieged with requests for the list, mostly by people who think they are missing something.

Christ was made sin, in whom there was no sin.
Man was made righteousness, in whom there was no righteousness.

It is mighty hard to shake me,
In my brawny arms I take thee,
I can either make or break thee – I am Habit!
Choose me well when you are starting,
Seldom is an easy parting,
I’ am a devil or a darling – I am Habit!

Old Testament Covenant: God took the best of people, but without God’s Holy Spirit – they failed.
New Testament Covenant: God took the least of the people, but with God’s Holy Spirit – they will succeed.

Years ago in Russia a little boy, through a priest learned to memorize the scriptures. He was so good that he received an award for being able to recite the four gospels verbatim. Years later, the priest was horrified about his pupil for he was Nikita Khrushchev. He KNEW the Bible, but did not DO the Bible and therefore the Bible did him no good at all.

“Confidence is the feeling you have just before you really understand the problem.”

“One must be very careful what to ask of God, because God may give it, and then we must act upon it without having counted the cost. “

“Lord help me to remember that nothing is going to happen to me today that you and I can’t handle”.

“Example is not the main thing in influencing people – it is the only thing!” – Albert Schweitzer

Where there is a root, there is going to be fruit. Don’t have a root of bitterness.

General Mc Arthur – to a troop of young soldiers:
“Don’t even think about marriage until you have mastered the art of warfare.”

“The greatest evil and the greatest good ever committed was the death of Jesus Christ.”

“The book – the Bible will either keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from the book.”

“We are more concerned with our reputation than with our character. That’s because our reputation is seen by men and our character is seen by God, proving that men are more real to us than is God.”

When the Jews said: “We have no king but Cesar” they acknowledged that they had no God.

Boy is trying to pick up a huge rock. Father says: Are you using all the strength there is? Yes Father! No son, you are not, for you have not asked me yet.

Your eyes can be in one of four places:

1. Your Circumstances
2. Others
3. Yourself
4. God

Three man of God confessed to each other. The Evangelist confessed to a weakness with woman and sex, the Priest said: I love money and gambling and have misused some of God’s money. The Baptist Minister said: my weakness is gossip and I can’t wait to get home and tell everybody.

To return:
Evil for Good = Evil
Good for Good = Human
Good for Evil = Divine

“To forgive is truly divine.”

“A true Christian has no enemies, because he has no enmity.”

“You can not hate someone without hurting yourself.”

“Every problem has it own solution.”

“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”

“Don’t worry about the world ending today; it’s already tomorrow in Australia.”

“Many rationalists and agnostics realize that absence of proof is not proof of absence.” – Ed Harrison
In other words, it’s as much an act of faith to say that God doesn’t exist, as it is to say that He does.

“Sincerity is impossible unless it pervades the whole being, and the pretense of it saps the very foundation of character.” – James Russell Lowell

“Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.” – Bruce Barton

“An unguarded strength is a double weakness.”

“If your religion has not changed you, it’s time to change your religion.”

“God gave us the responsibility of obedience, not the burden of understanding.”

“Always looking forward to being happy, makes it inevitable to never be happy.”

“Death is the ultimate experience of life.”

“Whatever your lot in life, build something on it.”

“Even if you are on the right track, you will be run over if you just sit there.”

“A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.”

“You can not make any inward recoveries until you change your outward relationships.”

“We live on ‘Intuition’ and ‘Emotion’. Intuition is the better and should come first.”

“There are twin fools. One believes everything; the other believes nothing.”

“The Bible does not have to be re-written, it has to be re-read.”

“The highest tax you pay is the tax you pay on your foolishness.”

“Being poor certainly is a problem, but being rich is not the answer.”

“Instead of complaining for not getting what you want – be thankful that you are not getting what you deserve.”

“A narrow mind and an open mouth, unfortunately, usually go together.”

“You either stop sinning or you will stop repenting. We have to do one or the other.”

“God wants man, He does not need them. Man needs God, but he does not want Him.”

“When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.”

“Religion is good VIEWS, The Gospel is good NEWS!”

“A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.”

“A farmer is a man getting bent because of hard work rather than getting crocket trying to avoid it.”

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” -- T.S. Eliot

“Time used to get even, is time wasted, for it can not be used to get ahead.”

“A reformed failure is better than one that has never failed.”

“All that have done big things well, have begun to do little things faithfully.”

“He that follows the crowd is always behind.”

“Wisdom is present or future, Knowledge is past and present.”

“The miracle of salvation is the act of a moment. The development of a saint is the work of a lifetime.”

“He, who does not have Christ (mas) in his heart, will never find it under a tree.”

“The sins of youth are harvested in old age.”

“Lamps do not talk – they shine!”

“God put the Church into the world; Satan put the world into the Church.”

“Every USER is a LOSER.”

“God without man is still God. Man without God is nothing.”

“Many people claim Christ as Savior, but are unwilling to accept Him as Lord.”

“There are many who are willing to feast with Christ, but few who are willing to fast with Him.”

“Sodom and Gomorrah were not a husband and wife team, and the Epistles are not the wife’s of the Apostles.”

“God will supply all our NEEDS not WANTS.”

“The surest way to SELF destruction is SELF preservation.”

“In Christian service it is not so much our ability, rather our availability that counts.”

‘Money may furnish a house, but only love can furnish a home.”

“Religion is either a dull habit, or an acute fever.”

Yesterday is gone – Forget it
Tomorrow has not yet come – Don’t worry about it
Today is here – Use it!

“Hating evil is not the same as loving good.”

“There is no security on this earth, only opportunities.”

“Wherever you are, be all there.”

“The Bible is so simple that we need help to misunderstand it.”

“The greatest problem of communication is the allusion that it has been achieved.”

“Some people say they forgive and forget, but they keep reminding us of it.”

“Some give their mite; some give with all their might; some don’t give, who might.”

“Half truths are the biggest errors.”

“God’s truth goes beyond human logic.”

“Obedience is the measure of our love towards God.”

“Spiritual law is divine legality.”

“Christ WAS Prophet. He IS Priest. He WILL BE King.”

“More Christians believe stronger in fear than they do in faith. Therefore, they get what they believe.”

“Emotional response is the evidence of sin.”

“Death is preferable to facing the Truth for most people. That’s why we have suicides and spiritual blindness.”

Sign in High school: In the event of an earthquake, the Supreme Court ruling against prayer in schools will be temporarily suspended.

“The question is not WHO is right, but WHAT is right.”

“Person who looses his temper – usually loses.”

“He who doesn’t know that he doesn’t know is a fool, AVOID HIM
He who doesn’t know and knows that he doesn’t know is a student, WAKE HIM UP
And he who knows and knows that he knows is a wise man, FOLLOW HIM.”

“When God measures a person, He measures the heart and not the head.”

“For me to worry about nothing, is to pray about everything.”

“Love can not grow in an environment of obligation. Love is free will.”

Time = Division = Satan
Moment = Unity = God

“Patience is a virtue that carries a lot of ‘wait’!”

“Men are looking for better methods, but God is looking for better men.”

“The pathway of truth is error.”

“Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all the gifts that we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.” -- Gian Carlo Menotti, American Composer

“Nothing is outside the reach of prayer, unless it is outside the will of God.”

“The love of the church creates violence, because the love of the church is not divine love, but human love.”

“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”

Inscription on tombstone: He died climbing!

“Feelings are the vehicle of deception.”

“Knowledge without action is waste.”

“Keep your temper – no one else wants it.”

“The more you are a man of culture, the less you are a man of God.”

“It is only the devil who says there is no devil.”

“Whenever you are angry and resentful, you can not understand or change, because anger covers up EGO.”

“Your life is like a coin, you can spend it anyway you want, but you can spend it only ONCE.”

“Happiness is not something we seek for. Happiness is the by-product of doing the right thing, of seeking God, of being perfect and holy as God is perfect and holy.”

“Partial Obedience is Total Disobedience”

“The fear of man and the gain of money (power) is the problem of all human organizations.”

“To tempt a person to will, is the same as to cause a person to sin.”

“It is better to communicate than to be right.”

“CH- -CH means nothing unless UR is in it.”

“Religion is man seeking God – Christianity is God seeking man.”

“The problem of all problems is that we look at the problem instead of looking at our self’s.”

“Anybody who loves you as you are, doesn’t love you.”

“Blaming others is called war. Blaming self is called peace.”

“The letter of the law is on the tablets of stone. The intent of the law is on the tablets of flesh.”

“You are not responsible for what people do to you; you are responsible only for the way you react to them.”

“Education consists of being afraid of the right things.”

Peace -- “IS”
War – “Has To Be Made”

“Where there is no truth, there is no wrong.”
“Where there is no law, there is no love.”

“There are no true answers to false questions.”

“When nothing stops you – that stops God.”

“Resent not evil – overcome evil with good.”

“You can’t change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly good present by worrying about the future.”

“Let us seek the great happiness of having done.”

There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” – Shakespeare

“You wouldn’t worry about what people think of you, if you knew how seldom they do.”

“Some would do anything to be able to do nothing.”

“God has not called us to content with Satan for a place of victory, but rather to overcome Satan from our position of victory.”

“There are vast undamaged areas in the most damaged brain.”

“The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.”

“Age is a matter of the mind – if you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”

“Anti-Christ will use ALL the teachings of today’s Christianity in order to draw ALL of Christianity unto him and follow him.”

“The worst moment for the atheist is when he feels grateful and he has no one to thank.”

“If you can’t sleep, don’t count sheep – talk to the shepherd!”

“The price of a divided Christendom is an unbelieving world.”

“The essence of the past is experience.
The essence of the future is opportunity.
And the essence of the present is to properly connect the two.”

“He who falls in love with himself – has no rival.”

“Satan is willing to confess Christianity, but not practice it.”

“The pen is the tongue of the mind.”

“Putting pen to paper lights more fires than matches will.”

“My goal in life is to climb a low mountain.” – Woody Allen

“Drills in time or life in eternity.”

“Infantile love is emotional, selfish and blind love
Mature love is outgoing love based on the law of God.”

“What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.”

“Of myself I can do nothing. With God I can do all things.”

“It is never the right time to do the wrong thing.”

“Blaming is destructive and evil, accepting responsibility is up building and godly.”

“On whom ever you concentrate on through hate and resentment – You become.”

“Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”

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