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Human Proverbs and Wisdom - Section 4
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.

“I have a feeling sometimes that some Guiding Hand has interfered. I have a feeling that we have a Guardian because we have a great Cause, and we shall have that Guardian so long as we serve that Cause faithfully. And what a Cause it is.” – Winston Churchill, 1942

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

“If we agreed with 100% what WCG (Worldwide Church of God) teaches, then we weren’t thinking” Dr. Herman Hoeh (1993)

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

“Today is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that’s why they call it the present.” Eleanor Roosevelt

As McCabe observes, it's a fundamental Christian truth that "Holiness is not first of all about being good; it is first of all about truth. If we can admit the truth about ourselves and our world then goodness can take care of itself."

“I believe that the science of chemistry alone almost proves the existence of an intelligent creator.” – Thomas Edison

Those who do not learn of history are “doomed to repeat it.” George Santyana

“The only thing man has learned from history is that no one learns from history.”

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience." – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“A man can’t be too careful in the choice of his enemies.” – Oscar Wilde

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

“Good friends are like stars…. You don’t always see them, but you know they are always there.”

“A skeptic is a person who when he sees the handwriting on the wall, claims it's a forgery.”

“Doctrine divides”

“The Gospel always divides”

“After the darkness – light!”

“We do not stop playing because we are old;
We grow old because we stop playing.”

“Insanity is when you do the same thing over and over, expecting different results.”

Coming together is a beginning
Keeping together is progress
working together is success

“We learn from the Old Testament to understand the New Testament. Not the other way around.”

“God sent Himself by sending His Word.” - Robert Schmid

“Whatever the mind of man creates, should be controlled by man’s character.” – Thomas Edison

Ultimately there are only two World Views: “Either God exists which gives meaning to everything. Or, God does not exist which gives meaning to nothing.”

“So, lets be aware that life is an apprenticeship, which amounts to nothing but futility, if we don’t complete it.”

“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” - Joshua

“To be significant is to be misunderstood.” - Emerson

“Some people receive GRACE from God.
All people receive JUSTICE from God.
No one ever receives INJUSTICE from God.”

“A chip on the shoulder is often a piece of wood that has fallen from the head.”

“The unexamined life is not worth living.” - Sacretes

“Existence proceeds essence.”

“Information without explanation leads to frustration.”

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

"The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good
ending; and to have the two as close together as possible." - George Burns

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

"Oh, eternal and everlasting God, direct my thoughts, words and work. Wash away my sins in the immaculate blood of the lamb and purge my heart by thy Holy Spirit. Daily, frame me more and more in the likeness of thy son, Jesus Christ, that living in thy fear, and dying in thy favor, I may in thy appointed time obtain the resurrection of the justified unto eternal life. Bless, O Lord, the whole race of mankind and let the world be filled with the knowledge of thee and thy son, Jesus Christ." – George Washington, from his personal prayer book

“You'll notice that a turtle only makes progress when it sticks out its neck...”

“Don’t ever confuse the two, your life and your work. The second is only a part of the first.” – Anna Quindlen

“When you are content to be simply yourself and don’t compare or compete, everybody will respect you.” - Lao-Tzu

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

Time = Division = Satan
Moment = Unity = God

“Unless you can create the WHOLE universe in 5 days, then perhaps giving "advice" to God, isn't such a good idea.”

“If I had known I was going to live that long I would have taken better care of myself.”

“I think, therefore I am.” – Rene Descartes

I think, therefore I am (a) God (being) – Robert Schmid

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

“God does not change because He is not subject to time.” – Robert Schmid

No God --- Know Fear
Know God --- No Fear

“The Bible does not argue for the existence of God
The Bible states unequivocally that there is God.”

“Before you borrow money from a friend, decide which you need more.”

“From creation we can deduce A God
From the Bible we can know THE God.”

“Every new day begins with possibilities. It’s up to us to fill it with things that move us toward progress and peace.” – Ronald Reagan

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

“The greatest power that a person possesses is the power to choose.” – J. Martin Kohe

“When the well is dry, we know the worth of water.”

“Your not what you think you are. But what you think you are.” – Norman Vincent Peale

“I am convinced that life is 10 percent what happens to me and 90 percent how I react to it. And so it is with you…we are in charge of our attitudes.” – Charles Swindoll

“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.”

“All mankind is of one author and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated…. God’s hand is in every translation.” – John Donne

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

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances…” – Victor Frankl

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

“Thoughts always precede the action”

“What the mind can conceive and believe, the mind can achieve.” – Napoleon Hill

“Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Always borrow from a pessimist – he never expects it back.”

“To forgive is to set the prisoner free, and then discover the prisoner was you.”

“A man is what he thinks about all day long.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries – discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines.” – Thomas Edison

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

“A smile is an inexpensive way to improve your looks.”

“Your day goes the way the corners of your mouth turn.”

“The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to the office.” – Robert Frost

“It isn't difficult to make a mountain out of a molehill, just add a little dirt.”

"The Christian religion is the religion of our country. From it are derived our notions on the character of God, on the great moral Governor of the universe. On its doctrines are founded the peculiarities of our free institutions. From no source has the author drawn more conspicuously than from the sacred Scriptures. From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology." - William Holmes McGuffey, author of the McGuffey Reader

“Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.” – Mark Twain

“The words you consistently select will shape your destiny.” – Anthony Robbins

“He who is greatly virtuous will be sure to receive the appointment of heaven.” - Confucius

“Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.” – Tom Hopkins

“Nothing bad ever happens without equal or greater benefit in return.” – Napoleon Hill

“The secret of happiness is to count your blessings while others are adding up their troubles.” – William Penn

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

"We have no government armed with the power capable of contending with human passions, unbridled by morality and true religion. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." – John Adams, President, in an address to military leaders

“As long as there is life, there is hope.”

“To achieve your goals and realize your potential, you must be willing to be uncomfortable – to do things that you’re afraid to do. That’s how you develop your potential.” – Jeff Keller

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

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

“I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor.” – Francois Rabelais

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

“Its obvious that we don’t know one millionth of one percent about anything.” – Thomas Edison

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

“We live with encouragement – we die without it.”

“Responsibility leaves no wreckage.”

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

“Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed.” – Mark Twain

"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity." - John Quincy Adams, President July 4, 1821

“To me, the idea and expectation that the day is slowly and surely coming when we will be able to honestly say we are our brother’s keeper and not his oppressor is very beautiful.” – Thomas Edison

“Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity.” – Oprah Winfrey

“The time is always right to do what is right.”

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living: the other helps you make a life.” – Sandra Carey

“The best way to win an argument is to begin being right.” – Jill Ruckelshaus

“The highest reward for a person’s toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.” – John Ruskin

“Miracles are great, but they are so damned unpredictable.” – Peter Drucker

“Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.” – Navajo Song

“Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now – always.” – Albert Schweitzer

“At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.” – Plato

“The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.” - Peter F. Drucker

“I don’t jog. If I die, I want to be sick.” – Abe Lemons

“If the Father deigns to touch with divine power the cold and pulse-less heart of the buried acorn and to make it burst forth from its prison walls, will He leave neglected in the earth the soul of man made in the image of his Creator.” – William Jennings Bryan

“A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” – Walter Winchell

“Money is a good servant but a bad master.”

“Statistics are no substitute for judgment.” – Henry Clay

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.” – Mother Teresa

“For fast acting relief, try slowing down.” – Lily Tomlin

“Meetings are indispensable when you don’t want to do anything.” – John Kenneth Galbraith

“The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person’s determination.” – Tommy Lasorda

"The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country." - Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States

“He that can have patience can have what he will.” – Ben Franklin

“The greatest gift you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” – Denis Waitley

“Only two groups of people fall for flattery – men and women.”

“Correction does much, but encouragement does more.” - Goethe

“When all else fails read the instructions.” - Agnes Allen

“Walking isn’t a lost art---one must, by some means, get to the garage.” – Evan Esar

“You have to wonder about humans, they think God is dead and Elvis is alive.”

“Until man duplicates a blade of grass, nature can laugh at his so-called scientific knowledge….” – Thomas Edison

“Just as there are no little people or unimportant lives, there is no insignificant work.” – Elena Bonner

“Educations purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” – Malcolm S. Forbes

“The tongue must be heavy indeed, because so few people can't hold it.”

Patrick Henry, that patriot and Founding Father of our country said: “It cannot be emphasized to strongly or too often that this great nation was founded not by religionists but by Christians, not on religions but on the Gospel of Jesus Christ”.

“From the unreal lead me to the real.
From darkness lead me to light.
From death lead me to immortality.” – The Upanishads

“A great teacher never strives to explain his vision – he simply invites you to stand beside him and see for yourself.” – The Rev. R. Inman

“Standing in the middle of the road is dangerous. You will get knocked down by the traffic from both ways.”

“What a big gap there is between advice and help.”

“Children are likely to live up to what you believe of them.” – Lady Bird Johnson

“This is the stupendous fact about man and his spiritual striving after God. It is not faith; it is not a contradiction of reason; it is merely a healthy instinct. It is man’s total response to the universe through his moral nature. It is not the antithesis of reason; it is the higher reason.” – Lin Yutang

“If parents pass enthusiasm along to their children, they will leave them an estate of incalculable value.” – Thomas Edison

“Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute.”

“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.”

“Treat a child as though he already is the person he’s capable of becoming.” – Haim Ginott

“Some marriages are made in heaven, but they ALL have to be maintained on earth...”

“The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.” – Artur Koestler

“A successful marriage isn't finding the right person - it's being the right person.”

“Be curious always! For knowledge will not acquire you; you must acquire it.” – Sudie Back

“It is a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.”

“There is nothing to fear but fear itself.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“And last but not least -- God gave the angels Wings, and He gave humans CHOCOLATE!!!!!”

“Whenever it looks the darkest, God will work His greatest miracles.”

“Don’t let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.” – John Wooden

“It is not the business of the law to make anyone good or reverent or moral or clean or upright.” – Murray Rothbard

"The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools." – 1782 resolution in the United States Congress

"If portions of the New Testament were read without explanation, they could and have been psychologically harmful to children." - 1963 Supreme Court decision that Bible reading was unconstitutional in the public school system.

“Some folks wear their halos much too tight...”

“A government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this Earth.” – Ronald Reagan

“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”

“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.” – Cardinal Newman

“As rivers have their source in some far-off fountain, so the human spirit has its source. To find this fountain of spirit is to learn the secret of heaven and earth.” - Lao-Tse

“If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher.”

“It is not necessary to know something about God in order really to believe in Him: many true believers know how to talk to God but not about Him.” – Martin Buber

“God wants us to have good manners and one of the tests of having good manners is learning to tolerate bad ones.”

“There is none exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”

“After all is said and done, more is said than done.”

“Good habits are not made on birthdays, nor Christian character at the new year. The workshop of character is everyday life. The uneventful and commonplace hour is where battle is lost or won.” – Malteie D. Babcock

The very first Supreme Court Justice, John Jay, said: “Americans should select and prefer Christians as their rulers”.

“The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e’er gave,
Awaits alike the inevitable hour,
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.” – Thomas Edison

“It's all right to sit on your pity pot every now and again. Just be sure to flush when you are done.”

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” – Albert Einstein

Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, and faith looks up...

“God must love the common man, he made so many of them.” – Abraham Lincoln

“They say it takes a minute to find a special person,
an hour to appreciate them,
a day to love them,
but then an entire life to forget them.”

“God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts...”

“Only the fear of the Lord, can deliver us from the fear of man.”

“Lying and truism can not exist in a good marriage.”

“The mighty oak tree was once a little nut that held its ground.”

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

“With most words, in any language, the problem is not understanding what they mean, the problem is doing what they say.”

“Use whatever talents you possess, the woods would be silent if only those birds sang, that sang the best.”

“If you want to take a step forward, you have to let your foot go from where you stand.”

“If you want to know how many friends you have, just buy a cottage on the lake.”

“The demands of the laws of God must and will be satisfied, either
through repentance or by a sentence.” – Robert Schmid

“Any child who has been taught to obey the laws of God will have no trouble obeying the laws of man.” – J. Edgar Hoover

“The proverb warns ‘You should not bite the hand that feeds you.’ But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself.” – Thomas Szasz

“A little bid of science draws one away from God. Much science draws one closer to God.” – Louis Pasteur

“Today is here, it’s time to do what you planned on doing yesterday!”

“Even though woman are not as smart as men, they are also not as dumb….”

“Food – what nourishes us destroys us.”

“When the premise is wrong, conclusions that will follow, will also be wrong.”

“Opportunity – A good chance that always looks bigger going than coming.”

The best way to get even is to forget...

“We have met the enemy – and the enemy is within!”

“Never place a period where God has placed a comma.”

“Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.” – Phillip Brooks

“Love your enemies, for they tell you your faults.”

“O, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!” – Sir Walter Scott

“The formula for success, is the same as for a nervous breakdown.”

“We have staked the whole of all our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God.” – James Madison

A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband.
A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife.
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.

"It is impossible to govern the world without God and the Bible. Of all the dispositions and habits that lead to political prosperity, our religion and morality are the indispensable supporters. Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that our national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." - George Washington, the Father of our Nation, in his farewell speech on Sept. 19, 1796

“Striving for excellence can be invigorating.
Striving for perfection can be depressing”

“Feed your faith and your doubts will starve to death.”

“Too many people offer God prayers with claw marks all over them.”

“Words are windows to the heart.”

”Keep smiling, and ...if you see someone's missing one.... give them one of yours!!”

“To err is human. To forgive is divine.”

“The further you can see into the past, the greater the vision of the future.”

“Good humor is goodness and wisdom combined.”

Unattended fires become nothing but a pile of ashes.”

“You either have the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret.”

“Evangelism is nothing more that one beggar telling another beggar where to find bread.”

“Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.” – Cardinal Newman

WHY MEN ARE JUST HAPPIER PEOPLE
What do you expect from such simple creatures?
Your last name stays put.
Wedding plans take care of themselves.
Chocolate is just another snack.
You can be president.
You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park.
You can wear NO T-shirt to a water park.
Car mechanics tell you the truth..
The world is your urinal..
You never have to drive to another gas station because this one's just too icky.
You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt.
Same work, more pay.
Wrinkles add character.
Wedding dress -- $5000; tux rental -- $100.
People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them.
The occasional well-rendered belch is practically expected.
New shoes don' t cut, blister, or mangle your feet.
One mood, ALL the time.
Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat.
A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase.
You can open all your own jars.
You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness.
If someone forgets to invite you, he or she can still be your friend.
Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack.
Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.
You almost never have strap problems in public.
Everything on your face stays its original color.
The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades.
You only have to shave your face and neck.
You can play with toys all your life.
Your belly usually hides your big hips.
One wallet and one pair of shoes, one color, all seasons.
You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.
You can "do" your nails with a pocketknife.
You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache.
You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives, on December 24, in 45 minutes.
NO WONDER MEN ARE HAPPIER

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