Moments Wisdom (Page 3)

A Moments Wisdom –People often blame who they are on the circumstances around them. The people who get on in the world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, they make them. –Our first words every morning should be “Here and I, send me.” –What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but will be heard by posterity. –Tact is the art of…

A Moments Wisdom –Yes, Christians are going to a special place when they die, but they need to make sure their lives are special while here. –The most difficult thing to keep to yourself is your opinion. –The surest way to go broke is to sit around waiting for a break. –To love the whole world is not hard; the problem is in trying to love the guy next door. –A perfect marriage is not when a perfect couple comes…

A Moment’s Wisdom “I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.”  This anonymous Quaker Proverb was published in Household Words: A Weekly Journal. The year was 1859. It beautifully expresses a truth that Jesus recognized and defined approximately 1830 years prior.…

A Moments Wisdom –Good timber and good men do not grow with ease; the stronger the wind, the stronger the trees. –Knowledge humbles the great man, astonishes the common man, and puffs up the little man. –The goal in marriage is not to think alike, but to think together. –A thing moderately good is not as good as it should be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in morality is always a vice. –Failure seldom stops you.…

A Moments Wisdom –Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be a stronger person. Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks. Then the doing of your work will not be a miracle, but you shall be the miracle. –Admonish your friends in private and praise them in public. –Many people know how to make a good living. Few know what to do with it once they have made it. –In…

A Moments Wisdom –No man ever sank under the burden of the day. It is when tomorrow’s burden is added to the burden of today, that the weight is more than a man can bear. –If there is one thing that pierces the Master’s heart with unutterable grief, it is not the iniquities of the worldly, but the indifference of the religious. –Men often worry more about losing their hair than their tempers. –Learn the crucial shopping discipline: to know…

A Moments Wisdom –Happy is the man who can laugh at himself; he will never cease to be amused. –If you are suffering from a bad man’s injustice, forgive him, lest there be two bad men. –True charity doesn’t care if the cause is tax deductible or not. –Set a shining example today and your tomorrow will seem much brighter. –More hearts pine away in secret anguish from unkindness from those who should be their comforters, than from any other…