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Human Proverbs and Wisdom - Section 7
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 man is morally free when, in full possession of his living humanity, he judges the world, and judges other men, with uncompromising sincerity." - George Santayana

"The essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride ... Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind" ~ C.S. Lewis

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so." - Mark Twain

"Growing older is mandatory
Growing up is optional
Laughing at yourself is therapeutic"

"We can not ask man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it." -- Abraham Lincoln

"The most tyrannical governments are those which make crimes of opinions, for everyone has an inalienable right to his own thoughts." -- Baruch Spinoza

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

"Where all think alike, no one thinks very much." -- Walter Lippmann

"Reserve judgment on whatever is uncertain and assent only to clear precepts." -- Toland

"What is the hardest task in the world? To think!" -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform.” – Mark Twain

"Some people have just enough religion to be miserable."

"Whatever begins in anger, ends in shame."

"Tradition is the greatest enemy of truth." -- Robert Schmid

“I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this Book. I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.” – Abraham Lincoln

God did not become man as in mythology. God fathered a son who was born as a man as in theology." -- Robert Schmid

"There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all" -- Peter F. Drucker

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." -- Martin Luther

The five reasons the Roman Empire fell from within: Divorce, Taxes, Pleasure, Armaments, Decay of Religion.

Evolution: How much nothing do you need; to make everything!

"Whatever you do, do wisely and think about the end."

When you evaluate people, make sure you evaluate what they have done or said, not WHY they have done or said. With God it is the opposite, for God has the ability to judge and evaluate on the basis of motive, for He knows the heart, and we do not.

"If the Pope would be married, he would know that he is not infallible."

“It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.” – Mark Twain

"It is better to try big things, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much." -- Theodore Roosevelt

"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors." -- Rudyard Kipling

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." -- Abraham Lincoln

"It's easier to prepare and prevent than to repair and repent" -- Harvey Mackay

"I wrote my name upon the sand,
And trusted it would stand for aye;
But, soon, alas! The refluent sea,
Had washed my feeble lines away." -- Horatio Alger Jr.

"The Church is the only organization for the benefit of non-members."

“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.” – George Washington

"Knowing, Growing, Going."

"I'll rather see a Christian than hear a Christian."

"The most effective way to preach the Gospel begins with a Christ-like life."

"No man is rich enough to buy back his past." -- Oscar Wilde

“True religion and true philosophy must ultimately arrive at the same principle.” – S.S.Smith (1828)

"We have discovered the secret of the atom but have forgotten the power of the Ten Commandments."

“…Christianity is the only true and perfect religion; and that in proportion as mankind adopts its principles and obeys its precepts they will be wise and happy.” – Benjamin Rush

“A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently.” – Saint Augustine of Hippo

“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of intelligent effort.” – John Ruskin

"Nothing puzzles me more than time and space; and yet nothing troubles me less." -- Charles Lamb

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it." -- David Starr Jones

"A liar hides the truth, but a person who tells half-lies has forgotten where the truth is found."

"It is right to be content with what we have, never with what we are!"

"We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself." -- Charles Lamb

"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must undergo the fatigue of supporting it." -- Thomas Pain

"Many believe in God, few believe God."

“False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil.” -- Socrates

"To try to deny the Trinity endangers your salvation; to try to comprehend the Trinity endangers your sanity." - Martin Luther

"Any preacher with good sense will call in sick on Trinity Sunday (to avoid having to preach on the Trinity) - Colin Morris, English preacher

It is necessary to know the doctrinal and historical content of the Christian message in at least some detail, to acknowledge that the message is true, and to have personal confidence in it as reliable in life and in death." - Jaroslav Pelikan

"He who must travel happily must travel light." -- Antoine DeSaint-Exupery

"You can't solve a problem at the same level of awareness that created it." -- Albert Einstein

"The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." -- William O. Douglas

"Where there is beauty, there is the Spirit of God." -- R.C. Sproul

“The Bible is the rock on which our republic rests.” – Andrew Jackson

“Sometimes even to live is an act of courage.” -- Seneca

"Who begins too much accomplishes little." -- German Proverb

"The Universe is no longer a total mystery --- You are one of the people that made that happen."

"The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth." -- William J. Clinton, October 15, 1995. From his speech - "Fifty Years After Nuernberg Human Rights and the Rule of Law."

"I love the human race. Its people I can't stand."

"The man who gives up accomplishes nothing and is only a hindrance. The man who does not give up can move mountains." -- Ernest Hello

“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. And in knowing that you know nothing, that makes you the smartest of all.” -- Socrates

"The great thing and the hard thing is to stick to things when you have outlived the first interest, and not yet got the second which comes with a sort of mastery." -- Janet Erskine Stuart

"For me at least there came moments when faith wavered. But there is the great lesson and the great triumph if you keep the fire burning until, by and by, out of the mass of sordid details there comes some result, be it some new generalization or be it a transcending spiritual repose." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

"Human love is reciprocal. Godly love does not depend on being loved in return."

"What's down in the well, comes up in the bucket."

"Only dead people have no goals."

"The more time one has, the more time one will waste."

"If there is no God, all things are permissible."

"God sometimes puts us on our back, in order for us to look up."

“….only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters.” – Benjamin Franklin

"God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us." – Niccolo Machiavelli

"Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man. There has never been a really good one, and even those that are most tolerable are arbitrary, criminal, grasping and unintelligent." -- H.L. Mencken

"There is perhaps not one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive. Even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility." -- Benjamin Franklin

"A nation may lose its liberties in a day, and not miss them for a century." -- Montesquieu

"If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power." -- P.J. O'rourke

"If a nation expects to be both ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be." -- Thomas Jefferson

"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 the battle is lost or won." -- Maltbie D. Babcock

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap,
If you want happiness for a day, go fishing,
If you want happiness for a month, get married,
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune,
If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

"You will not have anything to live for, until you have something to die for."

"Things do not change; we change." -- Henry David Thoreau

"We make our decisions and our decisions make us."

“We reject with scorn all these learned and labored myth that Moses was but a legendary figure. We believe that the most scientific view, the most up-to-date and rationalistic conception, will find its fullest satisfaction in taking the Bible story literally.” – Winston Churchill

"Conscience makes cowards of us all."

"Character is what we are in the dark."

"The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand of force may destroy but cannot disjoin them." -- Thomas Jefferson

“Everything really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom” – Albert Einstein

“You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time” – Abraham Lincoln

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

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” – Thomas Jefferson

“The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and church governments (organizations) to gain ground.”

“Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.” – Mahatma Gandhi

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." -- Albert Einstein

“Religion is the only solid basis of good morals; therefore education should teach the precepts of religion, and the duties of man toward God.” – Gouverneur Morris

“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same.” – Carlos Castaneda

“Some people see things that are and ask, Why?
Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not?
Some people have to go to work and don’t have time for all that.” – George Carlin

“The world is too much: late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste out powers.” – William Wordsworth

“When one already knows what one thinks, one has no problem at all stacking the evidence to prove it.” – Jim West

“It has been my custom for many years to read the Bible in its entirety once a year.” – John Quincy Adams

“For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple and wrong.” – H.L. Mencken

“All virtue is summed up in dealing justly.” -- Aristotle

“Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.” – William Pitt

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

“It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.” -- Voltaire

“Knowledge is a wild thing and must be hunted before it can be tamed”

“Money is like manure, if you stack it up it stinks, if you spread it around it makes things grow.”

“PERSEVERANCE is the investment, SUCCESS is the return.”

“You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man’s freedom. You can be free only if I am free.” – Clarence Darrow

“A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures.” – Daniel Webster

“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”- Ronald Reagan

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

“Make the most of the best and the least of the worst.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“Man sees your Actions. God sees your Motives.”

"Our life is frittered away by detail...Simplicity, Simplicity, Simplicity." -- Henry David Thoreau

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.” – Victor Hugo

“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“The objects of philosophy are to ascertain facts or truth, and the causes of things or their phenomena; to enlarge our views of God and his works…” – Noah Webster (1828)

“Of all kinds of knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.” – Jonathan Edwards (1808)

“Know thyself. Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.” – Ann Landers

“You cannot slander human nature; it is worse than words can paint it.” – Charles Spurgeon

“While the right to talk may be the beginning of freedom, the necessity of listening is what makes the right important.” – Walter Lipman

“If you don’t define your goals clearly, everything seems important and requires action. If you do define your goal clearly, especially your single most critical goal, almost all things are of little or no importance and few things require action.”

“A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education.” Theodore Roosevelt

“Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.”

“Without freedom of choice, there is no freedom.”

“The greatest thing a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children.” – Henry Drummond

“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song.” – Plato

“All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is exclusively my own.” -- Goethe

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

“Flowers are the poetry of the earth, as stars are the poetry of heaven.”

“If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.” -- Voltaire

"I can resist everything but temptation." -- Oscar Wilde

“The garden is the outdoor continuation of the house.”

“Those who don’t know how to weep with their whole heart don’t know how to laugh either.” – Golda Meir

“If we abide by the principles taught in the Bible, our country will go on prospering.” – Daniel Webster

“We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.” – John Rushin

“I don’t care if it’s a white cat or a black cat. It’s a good cat so long as it catches mice.” – Deng Xiaoping

“Without the heart it is no worship. It is a stage play. It is an acting of a part without being that person, really. It is playing the hypocrite.” – Stepehen Charnock

“Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.” – Saint Augustine of Hippo

“When you get to the end of yourself, you get to the beginning of God.”

“To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we own only the truth.” -- Voltaire 

"God is: The Good, the Truth and the Beautiful" -- R.C. Sproul

“I want to know how God created this world. I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts; the rest are details.” -  Albert Einstein

“The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, nor to anticipate troubles, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.” – Abraham Lincoln

“The church’s singular failure in recent decades has been the failure to see Christianity as a life system, or world view that governs every area of existence.” – Charles Colson

“Of all kinds of knowledge that we can ever obtain, the knowledge of God, and the knowledge of ourselves, are the most important.” – Jonathan Edwards

“You cannot Slander Human nature; It is worse than words can paint it.” – C.H. Spurgeon

“The chief aim of all investigations of the external world should be to discover the rational order and harmony which has been imposed on it by God.” – Johannes Kepler

“He, who controls the past, controls the future.” – George Orwell

“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.” – Ann Landers

“Those who don’t know history have no sense of identity and no sense of wisdom as they explore where they’re going to go. Without history we’re lost.”  – Os Guiness

“God has made us for Himself and our hearts are restless until we find our rest in Him.” – Augustine

“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” – Voltaire 

“In my view, the Christian Religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government, ought to be instructed…no truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian Religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people.” – Noah Webster

“The great pillars of all government and of social life (are) virtue, morality, and religion. This is the armor…and this alone, that renders us invincible.” – Patrick Henry

“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.” – William Hazli

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

“The Trinity is Satan’s masterstroke to deceive the world about God.” – Robert Schmid

“Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama    

“No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.” – Victor Hugo

“God who gave US life gave US liberty. And can the liberty of a nation be secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of people that these liberties are of the gift of God? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever.” – Thomas Jefferson, U.S. President 1801-1809

“We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of heaven. We have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power as no other nation has ever grown.

“I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places.” – Mark Twain

“But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious Hand which preserved US in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened US; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own.

“Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made US.” – Abraham Lincoln, U.S. president 1861-1865      

“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.” – Ann Landers

“The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.” – Winston Churchill             

“It is impossible to be grateful and unhappy.”
“When in doubt tell the truth.” – Mark Twain

“Success is not a function of individual talent. It’s the steady accumulation of advantages.”

“The path of social advancement is, and must be, strewn with broken friendships.” – H. G. Wells

“We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please [people], until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics.” – Mark Twain

“The exchange of real love between a man and a woman doesn't come out of magazine; book; or a manual, it comes from the heart; and even then it can only be real when two souls are connected with the Holy Spirit. Otherwise...the emptiness will always remain. Real satisfaction is never achieved.”

"A man is not good or bad for one action." - Thomas Fuller

"I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.” – Victor Hugo

“By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you will become very happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher - and that is good for every man.” – Socrates

“Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.” – Saint Augustine

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” – Aldous Huxley

“Always tell the truth; then you don't have to remember anything.” – Mark Twain

“Silence will save me from being wrong (and foolish), but it will also deprive me of the possibility of being right.” – Igor Stravinsky

“In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.” – Albert Schweitzer

“A long dispute means that both parties are wrong.” – Voltaire

“The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.” – H. G. Wells

"Man is rich in proportion to the amount of things he can afford to let alone." -- Henry David Thoreau

“The poor wish to be rich, the rich wish to be happy, the single wish to be married and the married wish to be dead.” – Ann Landers

“Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead.” – Aldous Huxley

“God owns heaven but He craves the earth.” – Anne Sexton

“Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so.” – Bertrand Russell

“Freedom is only granted us that obedience may be more perfect.” – John Ruskin

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

“Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.” – Isaac Asimov

“I never knew how to worship until I knew how to love.” – Henry Ward

“Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.” – Napoleon Bonaparte

“Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90% of your happiness or misery.” – Jackson Brown

“Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.” - Henry David Thoreau

“There is only one thing more powerful than all the armies of the world, that is an idea whose time has come.” - Victor Hugo

'All great truths begin as blasphemies.” - George Bernard Shaw

“In life expect troubles, if you worry it doubles.”

“Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.” -  Henry David Thoreau

“Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.” - Merry Browne

“The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.” – Heraclitus

“All are but parts of one stupendous whole.” - Alexander Pope

“Everything that originated from the tree of knowledge carries in it duality.” - Zohar

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

“We don't see things as they are; we see them as we are.” - Anais Nin

“An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.” – Gandhi

“The opposite of a fact is falsehood, but the opposite of one profound truth may very well be another profound truth.” - Niels Bohr

“As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of being.” - Carl Jung

“The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes.” - William James

“We feel and know that we are eternal.” -  Edmund Spenser

“The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced.” -  Aart Van Der Leeuw

“The truth dazzles gradually, or else the world would be blind.” -  Emily Dickinson

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity...and I'm not sure about the universe.” -  Albert Einstein

“Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness, in a descending spiral of destruction. The chain reaction of evil must be broken, or we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation.” - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.” - Galileo Galilei

“To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.” – Confucius

“The truth is incontrovertible. Malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end, there it is.” - Winston Churchill

“When it is time to die, let us not discover that we never lived.” -  Henry David Thoreau

"The pen is mightier than the sword."

“Discipline is the path to maturity.”

“It is never too late to start doing what is right.”

No one is too lost
No one is too hardened
No one is too evil – Is anything too hard for the Lord?

“It is better to try big things, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.” – Plato

"A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.” – Mark Twain

"It is unbelievable, what unbelievers must believe" -- Cardinal Faulhaber

"There is more to life than simply increase its speed." - Mahatma Ghandhi

"Appreciation is a wonderful thing: it makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well." -- Voltaire

"You must do the thing you think you can not do." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Never am I more active than when I do nothing." -- Cato

"Preach the gospel at all times, and when necessary use words." -- Francis of Assisi

"Truth does not change! Regardless, whether YOU are a success or a failure."

“The desire of one man to live on the fruits of another’s labor is the original sin of the world.” – James O’Brien

“Where all think alike, no one thinks very much.” – Walter Lippmann

“What is it that we hold most dear? Our own liberty and prosperity.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people…of the characters and conduct of their rulers.” – John Adams

“Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful.” -- Seneca

“God is dead” – Nietzsche
“Nietzsche is dead” – God

“The law may not change the heart, but it can restrain the heartless” – Martin Luther King

“No one ever finds life worth living. One always has to make it worth living.” – Richard M. McFeely

“If you do your best, and always think and work positively, bountiful supply of abundant living will be yours”

“Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact.”

“The tests of life are not meant to break you, but to make you.”

“Think of helping others. Find someone who needs the kind of help you can give, and give it.”

“To give without thought of gain, to help without expectation of personal benefit, is the ultimate in loving concern. Giving is vital to spiritual growth.”

“Don’t go around telling yourself you are sick, you are weak, you are defeated. Not at all! Take charge of yourself—you are greater than you think.”

“A positive mental attitude is a belief that things are going to turn out well, and that you can overcome any kind of trouble or difficulty.”

“To drop fear from your life, stand up to it. Do what you fear, and your fear will vanish.”

“Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.”

Love people. Find that loveable quality that is in each of us. Put the other person ahead of yourself, and the love you give will return to you.”

“The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens. So, happiness is up to you.”

“Never allow a problem to become an excuse.”

“It is better to try big things, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor souls who neither enjoy much nor suffer much.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“Science without religion is lame; religion without science is blind.” – Albert Einstein

“If you always do, what you always did, you’ll always get what you always got.”

What is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark, or the man afraid of the light?”

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

“The desire of one man to live on the fruits of another’s labor is the original sin of the world.” – James O’Brien

“America is great because she is good, and if America ever ceases to be good, she will cease to be great.” – Alexis de Tocqueville

“Let today be our repenting day for tomorrow may be our dying day.” – Thomas Watson

“God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.” – Niccolo  Machiavelli

“Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies.” – John Arbuthnot

“Liberty of thought is a mockery if liberty of speech and action is denied.” – Rev. Sidney Holmes

“Real Christianity is sharing each other’s pain.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“True freedom is to be free from sin! The next best thing is to free from the guild of sin!”

"Love is what makes two people sit in the middle of a bench when there is plenty of room at both ends."

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future." -- Alex Haley

"Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith."

"We can only appreciate the miracle of a sunrise if we have waited in the darkness."

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." -- Martin Luther King Jr.

"The man who questions opinion is wise; the man who quarrels with facts is a fool." ~ Frank A. Garbutt

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