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Human Proverbs and Wisdom - Section 3
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.

“Use things and love people. Do not love things and use people.”

“Where there is depth there is peace! (That’s why even little fish can exist perfectly well in a sea that is stirred up with the biggest hurricane)

“God does not pay at the end of every day. But God always pays in the end.”

“There are three hounds in the Bible: Conscience, Reason, Memory.”

“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.”

“Your friends will stretch your vision…or choke your dreams.”

“Everybody wants to learn, but nobody wants to be taught.”

“A church with many problems is a church that’s alive. A church with no problems is a dead church.”

“A nursery is a messy place but alive; A cemetery is clean and very orderly, but dead.”

“The only exercise some people get is when they jump to conclusions.”

“We fast every night – therefore we have Break - Fast.”

“Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.”

“Are the things around you helping you toward success --- or are they holding you back?” – W. Clement Stone

“Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.”

“Don’t substitute the good, for the BEST!” (you can do many good things, but you may do some things better)

“The harder the conflict, the more glorious the victory.”

“There are three kinds of people in this world:
Thos e who MAKE things happen
Those who WATCH things happen
Those who WONDER “What happened?”

“Chance favors the prepared mind.”

“Support wild life – throw a party.”

“Good girls go to heaven. Bad girls go everywhere.”

“There is a saving grace for sinners and a serving grace for saints.”

“I am not concerned whether you have made mistakes. I am only concerned if you have not learned from them.” -- Abraham Lincoln

“Those unaware are unaware of being unaware.”

“Good friends are good for your health.” – Dr. Irwin Sarason

“He who pays the piper calls the tune.”

“It is not a matter of what is true that counts, but a matter of what is perceived to be true.” – Henry Kissinger

“Don’t rush me! I’ll face today tomorrow.”

“Shepherds don’t beat their sheep, they lead their sheep.”

“Life is like a grindstone, it will either ground you down, or polish you up.”

“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“People who wait until they feel like doing a job – rarely do.”

“The Lord looks down on all who look up.”

“Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.” – Marie Curie

“Fulfillment is not what you gain, but what we give.”

“Every artist was first an Amateur.”

“Courage is grace under pressure.”

“Suicide – a permanent solution to a temporary problem!”

“A question never asked, is a question never answered.”

“Awake to the significance of the insignificance! For you are in a world that belongs not alone to the God of the infinite, but also to the God of the infinitesimal.” – A.H. Strong

“The only way to escape from the prison of fear is action.” – Joe Tye

“Obedience in small things is NOT a small thing.”

“The law says: Do good and I bless you. Grace says: I bless you, therefore do good.”

“Under the law, I do good because I want to become a child of God.
Under grace, because I am a child of God, I do good.”

“Snowflakes are one of nature’s most fragile things; but just look at what they can do when they stick together.”

“Running away from your fears is a losing strategy.” – Jeff Keller

“Even if you win the rat race, you are still a rat.”

“If you don’t read the Bible, God doesn’t speak to you.”

“Anybody going slower than I is incompetent and anybody going faster is a menace.”

“Laugh and the world laughs with you. Snore, and you sleep alone.”

“Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go.” – William Feather

“History” it is said, “teaches everything, even the future.”

“Right is right if nobody is right, and wrong is wrong if everybody is wrong.” – Fulton Sheen

“Man in his vanity is like the fellow who bought a new boomerang and almost killed himself trying to throw the old one away.”

“Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.” – Henry Ford

“Will you invest your life or spend your life?”

“It is a fool who says: I don’t tell my children what to believe, because if you don’t tell them, someone else will.”

“We fear what we doubt God can not handle. There is no fear where there is no sin.”

“You were made by God and for God – and until you understand that, life will never make sense.”

“Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill

“On your way down don’t panic – pray.”

“At the heart of every problem, is a problem in the heart.”

“A slave works because he has to,
An employee works because he needs to,
A son works because he wants to.”

“A major religion: The cult of conformity.”

“Feed your faith, and your doubts will starve to death.” – Megiddo Message

“We must constantly build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.” -- Martin Luther King Jr.

Original inscription on a North Carolina grave stone read:
“As I am now, so must you be, prepare for death and follow me.” Someone added:
“To follow you I am not content, how do I know which way you went?”

“Stress is what you feel when you are a turkey and its one week before Thanksgiving.”

“Said Cain to his father Adam: Why aren’t we living over there in the good section of town? Said Adam: Son, we used to live there until your mother ate us out of house and home.”

“God does not change you so He can love you. He loves you so He can change you.”

“If not I Lord – who? If not now Lord – When?”

“The greatest mistake a person can make is to be afraid of making one.” – Elbert Hubbart

“Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It’s quite simple. Double your rate of failure.” – Thomas J. Watson

“Nothing tastes so good as thin feels.”

“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend.
A successful woman is one who can find such a man.”

“You can not step into the same river twice. (But Jesus Christ never changes)”

“Any bulldog can whip a skunk, but sometimes it just ain’t worth it.”

“The man that has everything is like the Texan who had three swimming pools: One with cold water. One with warm water. And one with no water (for those who can’t swim).”

“There are only two kinds of people in the world: The Takers and the Givers. The Takers eat better. The Givers sleep better.”

“A good deal of ill health can be attributed to heavy meals and light work.”

“One who builds under the stars, builds to low.” -- Edward Young

“There are only two races in the world: The decent and the indecent.”

“What is your Christian vocation? We are called to be witnesses, not lawyers and argue.”

“A BRIBE is to induce someone to do something wrong. A REWARD is to induce someone to do something right.”

“How much money is enough? Just a little more than I have.”

“Its OK to have money, but when money has you – you are dead.”

“Money has you when you obtain your wealth by taking advantage of others.”

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” -- Aristotle

“If money becomes your security, then money has you.”

“Forgive your enemies, but always keep their name.” -- JFK

“Today is the future we created yesterday.”

“Whoever acquires knowledge but does not practice it, is one who ploughs but does not sow.” -- Saadi

“Happiness is a form of courage.”

“God has to apply the board of education to our seat of learning.”

“If you don’t have an education, you just have to use your brain.”

“An ounce of example is worth more than a ton of advise.”

“Teacher asked Student: What is the greatest problem today – is it ignorance or apathy?
Student answered: I don’t know and I don’t care.”

“Don’t pray for something different than the Word of God.”

“Faith means that acceptance and belief must come before questioning and understanding.”

“Reading is to the mind, what exercise is to the body.” -- Sir Richard Steele

“I am not going to tell you any more since I already told you more than I know.”

“A wise man knows everything; A shrewd one, everybody.”

“The Bible: Sin will keep you from this book. This book will keep you from sin.” -- D.L. Moody

“Those who forget man, overlook God as well.”

“The ability to love is a gift through which God becomes tangible.”

“Do your best, and let God do the rest.”

“During a revival campaign, a man asked each night to be filled with the Holy Spirit. Why? Because he leaked.”

“You seldom find pleasure where you look for it.”

“I am proud of my wrinkles. They are life in my face.” -- Brigitte Bardot

“No failure is ever final, nor is any success.”

“A wise person doesn’t just spend time, he invests time.”

“When you have spoken the word, it reigns over you. When it is unspoken, you reign over it.” -- Arabian Proverb

“Prayer moves the hand that moves the world.”

“Rights are never right when they become wrong.”

“There is trouble when we conform our theology to our morality.”

“God’s priority is not just to pass out information, but to build relationships.”

“What a person believes determines what he does.”

“Common sense is very uncommon.”

“Unless you assume a God, the question of life’s purpose is meaningless.” – Bertrand Russell

“Happiness is good health and a bad memory.”

“Truth is immortal. Error is mortal.”

“Simple preaching is when you put the cookies down where the kiddies can’t get them.”

“Focusing on ourselves will never reveal our lif’s purpose.”

“God helps us face the music, even if we don’t like the tune.”

“You are what you hate.”

“Methods are many, principles are few;
Methods change, principles never do.”

“God is God, whether we know it or not.”

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” -- Leo Tulstoy

“The happiest and most profound man is one for whom the whole world still holds many mysteries.”

“No true philosophy is possible were the fear of consequences inhibits the pursuit of truth.” – John Stuart Mill

“I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just.” -- Thomas Jefferson

“Failure is the chance to do better next time.” -- Henry Ford

“Where two sincerely try to perfect themselves, it is important that each respect the way of the other.”

“There are a great number of men, but still many more faces, because everyone has several of them.”

“Love may make you blind, but it doesn’t make deaf.” – Ann Landers

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”

“In your family matters, make sure your family matters.”

“Practice random acts of kindness.”

“Only he who grows up and stays a child is a human being.” – Erich Kaestner

“Your mind is like a parachute; It works best when it is open.”

“Some people have just enough religion to be miserable.”

“Woman: Don’t hold the door open for me just because I am a lady.
Man: I am not – I am holding it open because I am a gentleman.”

“Don’t let the controversy get in the way of your responsibility (as a Christian).”

“Journalism consists largely in saying, ‘Lord Jones died’ to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.”

“The object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.” – G.K. Chesterton

“The United States is a nation of laws: Badly written and randomly enforced.” -- Frank Zappa

“There is power only in principles: They alone are a rallying point for conviction gone astray.” -- Frederic Bastiat

“There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. – David Starr Jordan

“We learn by error and mistakes and become masters through practice.”

“Everyone would like to behave like a pagan, with everyone else behaving like a Christian.”

“Let the people know the truth, and the country is save.” -- Abraham Lincoln

“In rivers and bad government, the lightest things swim at the top.” -- Benjamin Franklin

“Its easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.” -- Martin Van Buren

“Wonder never ceases for the person who keeps a clear eye.”

“Nobody wants to become something, everybody wants to be something.” -- Goethe

“Clever people observe everything. Dumb ones find fault with everything.” -- Heinrich Heine

“Stand above others to serve and not to command.”

“Possessions – those are all the things by which one is possessed.” -- Henry Miller

“Prayers don’t change the world. But prayers change men and men change the world.” -- Albert Schweitzer

“Sometime you have to leave a person in order to find him.”

“A human being is constantly being transformed by his experiences, thoughts and deeds.”

“Long before you encounter evil, you must be ready to resist it.” -- William Faulkner

“Man is good”, said the beast while devouring him.

“He that loves reading, has everything within His reach.” -- William Godwin

“Experience is the best teacher and the good thing about it is: you always get individual lessons.”

“You owe it to future generations to preserve the testimony of how God helped you fulfill his purpose on earth.”

“You can get everything in life you want if you’ll just help enough other people get what they want.” – Zig Ziglar

“Complete equality means universal irresponsibility.” -- T.S. Eliot

“Motivated by the pursuit of private gain, individuals promote the public welfare.” -- Walter E. Williams

“Having a closed mind – NO. Having a guarded mind – YES.”

“Hatred and anger are the greatest poison to the happiness of a good mind.” -- Adam Smith

“The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.” -- Woodrow Wilson

“The man who fights for his ideals is the man who is alive.” -- Miguel de Cervantes

“The more energetic the political activity in a country, the greater is the loss to spiritual life.” -- Solzhenitsyn

“The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.” -- Abraham Lincoln

“A great commitment to the Great Commandment and the Great Commission will make you a great Christian.”

“God has given each one of us the awesome privilege to say NO to Him.”

“We have never considered divorce. Murder yes. But never divorce.”

“Life is lonely when UR alone”

“God doesn’t play dice.” – Albert Einstein

“All scripture is for us, but not all scripture is about us.”

“The first lesson in civics is that efficient government should begin at home.” -- Charles Evans Hughes

“There is a lure in power. It can get into a man’s blood just as gambling and lust for money have been known to do.” -- Harry S. Truman

“Being good is what makes a man most resemble God because God is goodness.”

“Liberty is the only thing you can not have unless you are willing to give it to others.” -- William Allen White

“If you don’t stand for something, you will fall for anything.”

“Theology…relies upon a Divine influence over the human mind, which must be submissive to the truth of the Revealer.” – John Owen

“Better to do something imperfectly then to do nothing perfectly.” – Robert H. Schuller

“Mistakes are painful when they happen, but years later a collection of mistakes is what is called experience.”Dennis Waitley

“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; a optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” – Sir Winston Churchill

“Patience and Perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” -- John Quincy Adams

“Long before you were conceived by your parents, you were conceived in the mind of God.”

“Winning is a team sport” To live life requires you to be a fighter.

“What is the difference between a liar and one who tells the truth? The liar has to have a better memory.” – Mark Twain

“Most Clergy would do anything for media attention” – Donahue

“If you would be arrested as a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?”

“I’ll rather be single than I wish I’ll be single.” – Sherral Martin

“God created the world by and through His Word, not by and through a second god.” – Robert Schmid

“Right now, counts forever.”

“Our only hope is to submit to God.”

“Before most unbelievers accept the Bible as credible they want to know that we are credible.”

“God has a great army, but most of them are in the Secret Service.”

“Evangelism is a process more like farming, not like hunting.”

“If you want to see 90% of your problems in life, look in the mirror.”

“It’s an old truth that one must often learn from one’s enemy.” – Lenin”

“The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” Dennis Waitley

“How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.”

“The Bible tells us love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people.”

When love and skill work together, expect a master piece.” – John Ruskin

“A man there was, and they called him mad; the more he gave, the more he had.” -- Bunyan

“Everyone should look after two things personally: his bed and his tongue.”

“The less money a person has, the richer he is in experience.”

“When God is at the center of your life, you worship. When He’s not, you worry.”

“Our head is round so that our thoughts can change direction.”

“A man lives by believing something; not by debating and arguing many things.” – Thomas Carlyle

“If you don’t take care of your body, where are you going to live?”

“The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” – Vidal Sassoon

“We sometime learn more from the sight of evil than from the example of good.” – Blaise Pascal

“To read means, to think with someone else’s head, in place of your own.” – Arthur Schopenhauer

“The primary purpose of life is not to serve our fellow men, but to prepare for the Kingdom of God.”

“Prayer is the key, but faith unlocks the door.”

“If you can dream it, you can do it.” – Walt Disney

“Running amok is not considered exercise.”

“The deed shapes the heart more so than the heart shapes the deed.”

“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others.” – Jonathan Swift

“There is hope at the end of your rope”

“Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldons Huxley

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no one man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.” – John Webster

“The closest most people ever come to reaching their ideal is when they write their resumes.”

“Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.” – Victor Borge

“Treat your friends as you do your pictures, and place them in their best light.” – Jennie Churchill

“Love is life. And the basic law of both is truth.” – Franz Grillparger

“Demons are noisy. Angels do their work in silence.” – Peter Bamm

“Experience cannot be inherited – each must make them for himself.” – Kurt Tucholsky

“To change the world, you must begin at home.”

“Truth is more useful for the man who hears it than for the man who tells it.” -- Blaise Pascal

“Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain’t the lead dog, the scenery never changes.”

“Change your thoughts and you will change the world.”

“Catholic is Universal. Roman Catholic is Wrong Church.”

“Any form of devotion is better than self-adoration.” -- Hafis

“I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed.”

“You have control over the pictures that occupy your mind.” – Jeff Keller

“God has humor, for He created man.”

“To love doesn’t mean to impede and dominate another, but to accompany him on his way.”

Thomas Edison said: “There aren’t any rules around here! We’re trying to accomplish something!”

“Love is grand. Divorce, twenty grand.”

“An act of kindness can change the world.”

“Consensus is the death of leadership.” – Margaret Thatcher

“A camel is a horse designed by a committee.”

“Every Experience has a lesson.”

“Imagination is more important than knowledge.” – Albert Einstein

“If you’re positive and enthusiastic, people will want to spend time with you.” – Jeff Keller

“You need a license to sell pretzels, but any snug can make a baby.”

“The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended.” -- Frederic Bastiat

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” -- Benjamin Franklin

“Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.” -- Demosthenes

“A committee is a group of men who keep minutes and waste hours.” – Milton Berle

“If you want to know the purpose of the thing – never ask the thing.”

“You must first clearly see a thing in your mind before you can do it.” – Alex Morrison

“Purpose is the key to fulfillment.”

“Getters don’t get --- givers get.” – Eugene Benge

“Laws not enforced cease to be laws, and rights not defended may wither away.”

“Nobody succeeds beyond his or her wildest expectations unless he or she begins with some wild expectation.” – Ralph Charell

Truman’s Law: “If you can’t convince them, confuse them.”

“Every improvement is progress, but not all progress is improvement.” – Sigmund Graff

“Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together assures success!”

“The (ultimate) unalterable fact is: If you don’t die, you get older.”

“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” – John Adams

“It is good if the heart is naïve, but not the head.”

“I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by concious endeavor.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Not everyone can bring everything to completion, but everyone can think something through to its end.”

“What we sincerely believe regarding ourselves is true for us.” – Orison Swett Marden

“Training for life is more important than training for a job.”

“Patience is the foundation on which understanding is build.”

“Values cannot be taught, only lived as an example.”

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Norman Mac Ewan

“Better it is to contend with vices than without conflict to be subdued by them.” – St. Augustine

“Practical politics consist in ignoring facts.” – Henry Adams

“To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.” – Sir James Jeans

“You can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.” – Napoleon Hill

“The price of liberty is eternal vigilance.”

“He who governs least, governs best.”

“A useless life is early death.”

“They can because they think they can.” -- Virgil

“Success is not designed to be easy, just worth it.”

“Never underestimate the power of the underdog.”

Coach: “They are going to win or lose whether I am watching or not.”

“Two mutually exclusive facts can not be true.” -- Aristotle

“Wer widerspricht is nicht gefaehrlich. Gefaehrlich ist, wer zu feige ist zu wiedersprechen.” – Napoleon I (1769-1821)

“There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it behooves all of us not to talk about the rest of us. – Robert Louis Stevenson

“A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes.” – Hugh Downs

“Death is only a temporary interruption on my way to life.” – Robert Schmid

“Troubles like babies grow with nursing.”

“Tool of Hermeneutics: Old and New Testament”

“Whether you think you can – or think you can’t – you’re right!” – Henry Ford

“Self trust is the first secret to success.”

“Quality is never an accident.”

“Nurture your mind with great thoughts.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“Attitude is instant. Understanding takes time.”

“Change the world by changing yourself.”

“Adam changed willingly, not willfully.”

“The darkest hour is only 60 minutes long.”

“When you give you don’t measure.”

“What can not be cured must be endured.”

“If it’s to be, its up to me.”

“The habit of making excuses is fatal to my success.”

“Take responsibility for your choices.”

“It will be success, if I have left myself behind.”

“Desire – Ask – Believe – Receive”

“Success without a successor is failure.”

“Leaders who stay to long do a lot more damage than those who do not stay long enough.”

“It is general error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for their welfare.” Edmund Burke

“There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.” – Louis XIV

“No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person.” – Karl Hess

“You can’t always control circumstances. But you can control your own thoughts.” – Charles Popplestone

“The functionaries of every government have propensities to command at will the liberty and property of their constituents.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.”

“Seek to understand, then seek to be understood.”

“There is no art which one government (organization) learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people.” – Adam Smith

“There are many different ways of bringing people into His Kingdom, even some ways I especially dislike! I have therefore learned to be cautious in my judgment.” – C..S. Lewis

“Give me 26 soldiers (alphabet) and I can conquer the world.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Husbands give love to get sex. Wife’s give sex to get love.
Men are stimulated by sight. Woman are stimulated by touch.”

“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.” – C.S. Lewis

“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.” – George Bernard Shaw

“Love God and do what you like.”

“Attitudes are a secret power working 24 hours a day, for good or bad.”

“Are you a pillar or a caterpillar in your church. Pillars uphold the church. Caterpillars crawl in and out of the church.”

“If you want peace, prepare for war.”

“Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.” – Dr. Joyce Brothers

“Good thoughts are no better than good dreams, unless they are executed.” – Waldo Emerson

“The heart has its reasons which reason knows not of.” -- Pascal

“Empires, like all other works of man, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.”– Adam Smith

“Self-deceit, this fatal weakness of mankind, is the source of half the disorders in human life.” – Adam Smith

“When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken.” – David Hume

“Freedom lives in self-responsibility and is inspired by self-determination.” – Karl Hess

“Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom.” – Benjamin Franklin

“From the saintly and single-minded idealist to the fanatic is often but a step.” – F.A. Hayek

“9/10 th with God’s blessings goes a lot farther than 10/10 th without God’s blessings.”

“Don’t look back. Someone might be gaining on you.”

“Quitters never win and Winners never quit.”

“A positive attitude is a person’s passport to a better tomorrow.”

“Today makes a difference tomorrow.”

“Think, act and talk with enthusiasm and you’ll attract positive results.” – Michael LeBoeuf

“The one person whom it is most necessary to reform is yourself

“Men of intemperate minds cannot be free; their passions forge their fetters.” – Edmund Burke

“Government is not reason; it is not eloquence. It is force. And force, like fire, is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.” – George Washington

“Selfishness is the great destroyer of relationships.”

“There is no greater stupidity or meanness than to take uniformity for an ideal.” – George Santayana

“A real friend is one who knows us and still loves us.”

“A government that is big enough to give you all you want, is big enough to take it all away.” – Barry Goldwater

“We must not care as to who gets the credit, but that God gets the glory.”

“In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue.” – James Q. Wilson

“To remain silent when they should protest makes cowards of men.” – Thomas Jefferson

“Giving money and power to government is like giving whisky and car keys to teen-age boys.”

“A culture is a means of uniting society by making provision for differences.”

“Great souls have wills, feeble ones have only wishes.” – Chinese Proverb

“Don’t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.” – Corrie Ten Boom

“There is no greater heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.” – Lord Arton

“The beggar who suns himself by the side of the highway possesses that security which kings are fighting for.” Adam Smith

“Today we have to much world in the church and not enough church in the world.”

“If I have no love for others, no desire to serve others, I should question whether Christ is really in my life.”

“Many people have just enough religion to stay in the church, but not enough to go to heaven.”

“We are afraid of failure, because failure confirms the realization that we are not perfect.”

“We have to learn to fail intelligently.”

“We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.” – Edwin Markham

“Never underestimate your power to change yourself.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

”We must give ourselves permission to fail.”

“Liberty cannot be sacrificed for the sake of anything. It is of more value than anything else.”

“Democratic nations often hate those in whose hands the central power is vested; but they always love that power itself.” – Alexis de Tocqueville

“I have faith deep and certain in the miracles that will flow from free men and a zero faith in what slaves or coerced mankind can bring to pass.” – Leonard E. Reed

“Enslave the liberty of but one human being and the liberties of the world are put in peril.” – William Lloyd Garrison

“You are not what you think you are. But what you think – YOU ARE!” – Norman Vincent Peale

“We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.” – Michael de Montaigne

“We may not return the affections of those who like us, but we always respect their good judgment.” – Libbie Fudim

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.” – William James

“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” – Pablo Picasso

“Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.” – Victor Hugo

“Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speak you will ever regret.” – Ambose Bierce

“The best inheritance a parent can give to his children is a few minutes of his time each day.” – O.A. Battista

What I’m able to do Gd wants me to do.”,

“We always weaken whatever we exaggerate”

“A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts.”

“The three things most difficult are: to keep a secret, to forget an injury and to make good use of leisure.” -- Chilon

“Few sinners are saved after the first 20 minutes of a sermon.” – Mark Twain

“The truly free man is he who knows how to decline a dinner invitation without giving an excuse.” – Jules Renard

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal. Nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong attitude. – Thomas Jefferson

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“To many people keep looking forward to the good old times.” – Arnold H. Glasow

“A baby is born with a need to be loved -- and never outgrows it.” – Frank A. Clark

“Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow; it only saps today of it strength.”

“These things I do despise: Hypocrisy and lies, and anything at all that dims the light in children’s eyes.” – Ruth Stamper

“No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.” – Danish Proverb

“You grow up the day you have your first real laugh – at yourself.” – Ethel Barrymore

“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The good can be the enemy of the best.”

“There are two reasons why people do not accept Christianity: One, because they know no Christian. Two, because they know a Christian.”

“Real commitment requires the sacrifice of self and the commitment must last to the end.”

“Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.” – Milton Friedman

“No one with a day’s experience in government fails to realize that in all bureaucracies there are three implacable spirits – Self-perpetuation, expansion and incessant demand for more power.” – Herbert Hoover

“When the sufferers begin to think, the thinkers begin to suffer.” – Karl Marx

“The Holy Spirit will not completely free us from error as long as we are not completely free of sin.”

“You can’t pay people for doing nothing without forcing others to do something for nothing.” – J. Kessner Kahn

“American workers comprehend the great fact that an idle man, whether he be a worker or a millionaire, harms all.” – Thomas A. Edison

“True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar hero’s, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.” – Whitehead

“Good manners are a part of good morals: and is as much our duty as our interest to practice both.” – John Hunter

“When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful.” St Augustine

“You can not consume what has not been produced. Only politicians believe you can. – A.J. Galombos

“I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.” -- Montaigne

“The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so rare.” – Daniel Patrick Monyuihan

“What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult for each other.” – George Eliot

“The further you can see into the past the greater your vision of the future.” – Winston Churchill

“True disciples of Christ are not those who know the most, but those who love the most.”

“I went to Church today and I am still not depressed.”

“When life ceases to be the issue, then life ceases.”

“If you cut your faith in half, you double your troubles.”

“Treat every person you encounter with dignity and respect.” – Jeff Keller

“To change your circumstances, first start thinking differently.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“Act as if it were impossible to fail.” – Dorothea Brande

“Every mama bird knows to do what my parents did: kick young adults out of the nest and make them learn to fly on their own.” – JoAnne Boyd

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go but ought to be.” – Rosalynn Smith Carter

“I will persist until I succeed. Always will I take another step. In truth, one step at a time is not difficult. I know that small attempts, repeated will complete any undertaking.” – Og Mandino

”In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.” – Albert Einstein

“There can be no correct answeres to false questions.”

“Only while SLEEPING do you make NO MISTAKES. Mistakes are the privilege of the ACTIVE person, who can start over and PUT things right.” – Ingvar Kamprad

“Real servants don’t try to use God for their purposes. They let God use them for his purpose.”

“Time is the most important asset. You can do a LOT in 10 minutes! But ONCE they’re gone, you can never get them back.” – Ingvar Kamprad

“Not all the good that people want to do for you, is necessarily good for you!
The good that people want to do for you, may not be good for you.”

“No man is poor who had a godly mother.” -- Abraham Lincoln

“Hypocrisy is sin. All church goers are sinners, therefore the church is full of hypocrites!”

“The printed word and a godly life are the most powerful ways to preach the gospel.”

“Love challenged logic, and love prevailed.”

“The majority is not always right. The minority was right when Moses send out the spies to check out the promised land.”

“First we must acknowledge that what and how we do is not the best, is not right, before we can deal with a solution.” -- Robert Schmid

“Pain is guarantied. Misery is optional.”

“There is nothing and there is nobody that is perfect in this life, therefore I must be prepared to compromise.” Robert Schmid

“I will not allow someone, any organization or government control my thinking and therefore my life. I am responsible only for myself and to God.” – Robert Schmid

“Humility and Respect are the means to bring an end to division.”

“Don’t be an adversary, don’t be in opposition to someone doing a work for God.”

“Don’t assume that you are purely and exclusively in the right for it causes division.”

“If the students didn’t learn, the teacher did not teach.”

“Confidence will be greatly sustained by a knowledge of God.” – Spurgeon

“If God only used perfect people, nothing would ever get done.”

“Every day above ground is a good day.”

“God is not a tooth fairy.”

“The higher you fly, the fewer the fences.”

“The greatest mission is submission.”

“Monarchy: RESPECT, Dictatorship: FEAR, Democracy: VIRTUE.”

“The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.”

“The silver-haired head is a crown of glory, if it is found in the way of righteousness.”

“Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.”

“One hundred years from now, it will not matter what kind of car I drove, what kind of house I lived in, how much money I had in my bank account nor what my cloth looked like. But the world may be a little better because I was important in the life of a child.”

The best data we have are exactly what I would have predicted had I nothing to go on but the first five books of Moses, the Psalms and the Bible as a whole.” – Arno Penzias

“If you live in the pain of the past or the fear of the future, you are robbed of the joy of the present.”

“Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike…And a through knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Nothing can happen today that the Lord and I cannot handle.”

“There is no brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God.”

“Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent…Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts, Persistence and determination are omnipotent.”

“I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to men. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a permanent attitude.” – Martin Luther King

“The real art of communication is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.”

“I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet.”

“When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.”

“Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risks.”

“Talk slowly but think qickly.”

“Never laugh at anyone’s dreams. People who don’t have dreams don’t have much.”

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.” – Oliver Wendell Holms

“A moment’s insight is sometimes worth a life’s experience.” – Oliver Wendell Holms

“You can’t take it with you” – but the Bible says you can send it on ahead by investing in people who are going there!”

“Long range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.” – Peter F. Drucker

“I find the great things in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“Being included in God’s family is the highest honor and the greatest priviledge you will ever receive.”

“In between goals is a thing called life that has to be lived and enjoyed.” – Sid Ceasar

“Husbands are like fire. They go out if unattended.” – Zsa Zsa Gabor

“He who is convinced against his will is of the same opinion still.”

“Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.” -- Goethe

“Don’t ever try to argue with the Devil. He’s better at arguing that you are, having had thousand of years to practice.”

“There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.” – Samuel Johnson

“Sometime when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things… I am tempted to think… there are no little things.” – Bruce Barton

“The Lord works from the inside out. The world works from the outside in. The world would take people out of the slums. Christ takes the slums out of the people, and then they take themselves out of the slums. The world would mold men by changing their enviroment. Christ changes men, who then change their environment. The world would shape human behavior, but Christ can change human nature.” – Ezra Taft Benson

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