'Moments Wisdom' Tagged Posts (Page 4)

–The best way to understand the difficult parts of the Bible is to first read and obey the easy parts. –I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him. –All people love those who love them. It is unique that Christians love those who hate them. –When you are in the right, you can afford to hold your temper. When you are in the wrong, you can’t afford to lose it. –More souls are won…

A Moments Wisdom –A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring his students with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron. –It is fortunate that in this country we have freedom of speech, but it is unfortunate that the supply usually exceeds the demand. –How much easier it is for some to critical than to be correct. –Treat arguments like weeds, nip them in the bud. –If you are waiting around for something to turn up, why don’t…

A Moments Wisdom — Money will buy a bed but not sleep, books but not brains, food but not an appetite, medicine but not health, luxury but not culture, amusement but not happiness, a crucifix but not a Savior, a house of worship but not a home in heaven. — To make a day full and pleasant, we need five things: plenty of work to do, a purposeful hope in life, someone to love, a period of relaxation, and a…

A Moments Wisdom –Everyone is criticizing and belittling the times. Yet I think that our times, like all times, are very good times, if only we know what to do with them. –Regardless of how educated, confident, and ambitious you are, you will not reach your potential without simple, basic honesty. And the first person you have to be honest with is yourself. –If you are a self-starter at work, your boss won’t be a crank. –Fathers who take their…

A Moments Wisdom –Why think and talk about debt, doubt, disease, disaster, discouragement, depression, decay, disorder, danger, defeat, difficulty, discord, deception, disappointment, distrust disagreement, dread, dejection, destitution, and desolation, when we could just as easily think and talk about peace, prosperity, plenty, power, pluck, persistence, purpose, promotion, possession, proficiency, progress, perseverance, prayer, and Paradise? –We choose the clothes we wear; we choose the food we eat and drink; but even more important, are the thoughts we choose to think. –Pleasure…

A Moments Wisdom on Goodness –A man is only as good as what he loves. –The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. –Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I have always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow. –Sin is anything that separates us from God. If we…

A Moments Wisdom –I only have three faults: what I say, what I do, and what I think. –If you neglect another day, you have a day more to repent of, and a day less to repent in. –Let God direct your life and you’ll always be in the right place at the right time. –Pitch the Good Book to your child while he is young, and they won’t throw the book at him when he is older. –Idol worship…

A Moments Wisdom –The highest reward God gives to us for good work is the ability to do better. –The future of our children began yesterday and must be worked on today. –The antidote for fifty enemies is one friend. –In prosperity, our friends know us; in adversity, we know our friends.