QUOTES – WISDOM & ENCOURAGEMENT

“O God! that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains; that we should, with joy pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts.” —William Shakespeare

“The safest road to Hell is the gradual one – the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.” —C.S. Lewis

“There’s not much practical Christianity in the man who lives on better terms with angels and seraphs, than with his children, servants, and neighbors.” —Henry Ward Beecher

“The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” —Marshal Ferdinand Foch

“The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;” —Isaiah 61:1

“You lose a lot of time hating people!” —Marian Anderson, late opera star

“Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart…thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself…” —Leviticus 19:17-18

“Hide not your light under a bushel.” —American Proverb

“Justice is truth in action.” —Benjamin Disrali

“To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.” —Margaret Fairless Barber

“When it comes to helping others, some people will stop at nothing.” —Anon.

“Be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur.” —Muriel Spark

“Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.” —Edmund Burke

“Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.” —Earl of Chesterfield

“I touch the future. I teach.” —Christa McAuliffe, Shuttle Challenger Astronaut

“How easy for me to live with You, O Lord! How easy for me to believe in You! When my mind parts in bewilderment or falters, When the most intelligent people see no further than this day’s end and do not know what must be done tomorrow, You grant me the serene certitude that You exist and that You take care and not all the paths of good be closed. Atop the ridge of earthly fame, I look back in wonder of the path which I alone could have never have found, a wondrous path through despair to this point from which I, too, could transmit to mankind a reflection of Your rays. And as much as I must still reflect You will give me. But as much as I cannot take up You will have already assigned to others.” —Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn

“And they come to Jesus, and see him that was possessed with the devil, and he had the legion, sitting, and clothed, and in his right mind; and they were afraid.” —Mark 5:15

“Truth is the greatest of all national possessions. A state, a people, a system which suppresses the truth or fears to publish it, deserves to collapse.” —Kurt Wisner

“There is nothing so powerful as the truth, and nothing so strange.” —Daniel Webster

“We Lutherans have gathered like eagles around the carcass of cheap grace, and there we have drunk the poison which has killed the life of following Christ. Cheap grace is the deadly enemy of our Church. We are fighting today for costly grace. Cheap grace means grace sold on the market like cheapjack wares. The sacraments, the forgiveness of sin, and the consolations of religion are thrown away at cut prices… In such a Church the world finds a cheap covering for its sins; no condition is required, still less any real desire to be delivered from sin…Cheap grace means the justification of sin without the justification of the sinner…it is grace without discipleship, grace without the Cross, grace without Jesus Christ, living and incarnate.” —Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and the angels know of us.” —Thomas Payne

“Idleness is only the refuge of weak minds.” —Earl of Chesterfield

“Sympathy: Two hearts tugging at one load.” —Charles H. Parkhurst

“The journey of a thousand miles begins by finding your shoes.” —Chinese Proverb

“Choose your words carefully today, the toast of appreciation you are planning on using tonight is going to go over like a pregnant pole vaulter.” —Anonymous

At Christmas — the season Of giving and sharing, Of living and loving Remembering, caring — Our thoughts bridge the space that Would tend to divide us Restoring the warmth of Your presence beside us. May all the sweet magic Of Christmas conspire To gladden your hearts And fill every desire. —Anonymous

“You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.” —Anouk Aimee

“After the game, the king and the pawn go into the same box.” —Italian Proverb

“I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.” —Bernard M. Baruch

“If you can’t bite, don’t show your teeth.” —Yiddish Proverb

“If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.” —Anonymous

“Even as I have seen, they that ploy iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.” —Job 4:8

“The Lord trieth the righteous but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.” —Psalm 11:5

“Truth never damages a cause that is just.” —Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)

“The more we fear crosses, the more reason we have to think that we stand in need of them: let us not be discouraged when the hand of God layeth heavy ones upon us. We ought to judge of the violence of our disease by the violence of the remedies which our spiritual physician prescribes for us. It is a great argument of our wretchedness and of God’s mercy, that, notwithstanding the difficulty of our recovery, He vouchsafes to undertake our cure.” —Francois Fenelon (1651-1715)

“Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil” —Robert H. Heinlein, American Science Fiction Author (1907-1988)