LIVING
BY HIS WISDOM
Compiled by ‘Lekan Telufusi.
1.
"Envy is one of the great
enemies of active spirituality. It keeps us from loving our neighbours,
from functioning with others in community, and from affirming people's unique
worth. It also steals contentment from the heart. Is there anything
or anyone you are envious of?"
2.
When I cannot understand my
Father’s leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that
gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful—Only wait.
3.
"The best thing about the
future is that it comes only one day at a time."
4.
If we are together nothing is
impossible. If we are divided all will fail.
5.
"We gain strength, and
courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear
in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot."
6.
"Character cannot be
developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering
can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success
achieved."
7.
"Finding relief in your
problem is fine, but it will not cure the problem."
8.
"My environment can give
me relief from sin and tension, only the Lord can cure it."
9.
"You can manage your sin,
but that's not repentance."
10.
"There's no human remedy
for sin."
11. "Your walk with God does not depend on
people, places, things or events."
12.
"I am a victim of my own
behavior."
13.
"God's children have a
limitless supply of the fruit of the Spirit."
14. "Biblical counseling is listening to a person
long enough until you hear a violation of Scripture."
15.
"Anger is inside you,
revealed by an outside source."
16.
"I have always found that
mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
17.
"Great opportunities to
help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every
day."
18. "Our lives begin to end the day we become
silent about things that matter."
19.
"Be kinder than necessary,
for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle."
20.
"Humility is perfect
quietness of heart, It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done
to me, to feel nothing done against me. It is to be at rest when nobody praises
me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to have a blessed home in the Lord,
where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am
at peace as in a deep sea of calmness, when all around and above is
trouble."
21.
"The important thing is
not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot
help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of
the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to
comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy
curiosity."
22.
"Have courage for the
great sorrows in life, and patience for the small ones. And when you have
laboriously accomplished your daily tasks, go to sleep in peace, God is
awake."
23.
"Loss is like a closed
road that forces us to turn around and find another way to our destination. Who
knows what we will discover and see along the way."
24. "When Satan reminds us of our past, we should
remind him of his future."
25. "The ultimate measure of a man is not where
he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times
of challenge and controversy."
26.
"A journey may be long or
short, but it must start at the very spot one finds oneself."
27.
"Faith is all that
dreamers need to see into the future."
28. In the end, a person is only known by the impact
he has on others."
29.
"Money is nothing more
than a tool. It can be a force for good, a force for evil, or simply
idle."
30.
"Problems may only be
avoided by exercising good judgment. Good judgment may only be gained by
experiencing life's problems."
31.
"Keep your fears to
yourself, but share your courage with others."
32. "Life is like riding a bicycle. You don't
fall off unless you stop peddling."
33.
GIVE THE FOLLOWING GIFTS:
"To your enemy --
forgiveness,
To your opponent --.tolerance.
To a friend -- your heart.
To a customer -- service.
To all men -- charity.
To every child -- a good example
To yourself -- respect"
To your opponent --.tolerance.
To a friend -- your heart.
To a customer -- service.
To all men -- charity.
To every child -- a good example
To yourself -- respect"
34.
"Some people, no matter
how old they get, never lose their beauty. They merely move it from their faces
into their heart."
35.
"Forgiveness does not
change the past, but it does enlarge the future."
36.
"It is easier to go down a
hill than up, but the view is from the top."
37.
"I have always found that
mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
38. He who knows not, And knows not that he knows not,
Is a fool, shun him. He who knows not,
And knows that he knows not, Is a child, teach him. He who knows, And knows not that he knows, Is
asleep, wake him. He who knows, And
knows that he knows, Is wise, follow him.
39.
"Do not go where the path
may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
40. "Good timber does not grow with ease. The
stronger the wind the stronger the trees."
41.
"Imagination is more
important than knowledge. Imagination is what we could be."
42.
"Advice is like snow; the
softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into, the
mind."
43.
"Greatness is not so much
a certain size as a certain quality in your life."
44.
"How wonderful it is that
nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."
45. "Man will
occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself
up and continue on."
46.
"I still find each day too
short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the walks I want to take, all
the books I want to read, and all the friends I want to see. The longer I live
the more my mind dwells upon the beauty and the wonder of the world."
47.
"Our brightest blazes of
gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks."
48.
"Forgiveness is the most
powerful thing you can do for yourself. If you can't learn to forgive, You can
forget about achieving true success in your life."
49.
"A man of words and not of
deeds is like a garden full of weeds."
50.
"No one would remember the
Good Samaritan if he had only had good intentions."
51.
"I count him braver who
overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies, for the hardest
victory is victory over self."
52. "We teach what we know, but we reproduce what
we are."
53.
"If you play it safe in
life, you've decided that you don't want to grow anymore."
54. "What
we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God."
55.
"Worry never robs tomorrow
of its sorrow; it only saps today of its strength."
56. "Ultimately you are doing what you do for one
of two reasons: to serve oneself or to serve God."
57. "There is enough time in every day to do
God's work... In God's way."
58.
"Dedication is doing the
'BEST' with your life rather than settling for what is only the 'good'."
59. "God is looking for ordinary people empowered
by Him to do extraordinary things!"
60.
"It is a wealthy person,
indeed, who calculates riches not in gold but in friends."
61.
"Our Father refreshes us
on the journey with some pleasant inns, but will not encourage us to mistake
them for home."
62.
“Worry does not empty tomorrow
of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength.”
63. "If you believe in a God who controls the big
things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things. It
is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'."
64. "Unforgiveness is like drinking poison and
hoping the other person dies."
65. “When one door closes, another opens, but we often
look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one
that has opened for us.”
66.
"Forgiveness is the
fragrance the flower leaves on the heel of the one who crushed it."
67.
Money is no substitute for
tenderness, and power is not a substitute for tenderness. I can tell you as I'm
sitting here dying, when you most need it, neither money nor power will give
you the feeling you're looking for, no matter how much of them you have."
68.
"People need loving the
most when they deserve it the least."
69.
"If you live close to God
and His infinite grace, you don't have to tell; it shows on your face."
70. "Remember, you may choose your sin, but you
cannot choose the consequences."
71.
"Humor is to life what
shock absorbers are to automobiles."
72.
"God will one day hold us
each accountable for all the things He created for us to enjoy, but we refused
to do."
73.
"What is the difference
between an obstacle and an opportunity? Our attitude towards it. Every
opportunity has a difficulty, and every difficulty has an opportunity."
74.
"You cannot help the
poor by destroying the rich. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the
strong. You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot
lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down. You cannot further the
brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred. You cannot build character and
courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help
people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for
themselves."
75. "You can live opposite of what you profess,
but you cannot live opposite of what you believe."
76.
"Kind words can be short
and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
77.
"Failure is not an event,
but rather a judgment about an event. Failure is not something that
happens to us or a label we attach to things. It is a way we think about
outcomes."
78.
"What you leave behind is
not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of
others."
79.
"That you may retain your
self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is
right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong."
80. God takes
away the world, that the heart may cleave
more to Him in sincerity.
81. God
sweetens outward pain with inward peace.
82. Not to be
afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me,
because he sees I can bear no more.
83. When we
grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things
again by sharp crosses.
84. The winter
prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the
soul for glory.
85. To
bless God for mercies is the way to increase them; to bless Him for miseries is
the way to remove them.
86. God takes
away the world, that the heart may cleave more to Him in sincerity.
87. God
sweetens outward pain with inward peace.
88. Not to be
afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me,
because he sees I can bear no more.
89. When we
grow careless of keeping our souls, then God recovers our taste of good things
again by sharp crosses.
90. The winter
prepares the earth for the spring, so do afflictions sanctified prepare the
soul for glory.
91. I am
mended by my sickness, enriched by my poverty, and strengthened by my
weakness.... Thus was it with.... Manasseh, when he was in affliction, "He
besought the Lord his God": even that king's iron was more precious to him
than his gold, his jail a more happy lodging than his palace, Babylon a better
school than Jerusalem. What fools are we, then, to frown upon our afflictions!
These, how crabbed soever, are our best friends. They are not indeed for our
pleasure, they are for our profit.
92. Labour to
grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest
God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.
93. The
secret formula of the saints: When I am in the cellar of affliction, I look for
the Lord's choicest wines.
94. The way to
be eased is not struggling with it, but meekly to bear it.
95. his
weight,
found it heavier.
96. He that
rides to be crowned, will not think much of a rainy day.
97. Afflictions
are light when compared with what we really deserve. They are light when
compared with the sufferings of the Lord Jesus. But perhaps their real
lightness is best seen by comparing them with the weight of glory which is
awaiting us.
98. We are
warned by the Word both of our duty, our danger, and our remedy. On the sea of
life there would be many more wrecks if it were not for the divine
storm-signals which give to the watchful a timely warning. The Bible should be
our Mentor, our Monitor, our Memento Mori, our Remembrancer, and the Keeper of
our Conscience.
99. The
pleasures arising from a right understanding of the divine testimonies are of
the most delightful order; earthly enjoyments are utterly contemptible if
compared with them. The sweetest joys, yea, the sweetest of the sweetest falls
to his portion who has God's truth to be his heritage.
100.
Did you never run for shelter in a
storm, and find fruit which you expected not? Did you never go to God for
safeguard, driven by outward storms, and there find unexpected fruit?
101.
To bless God for mercies
is the way to increase them; to bless Him for miseries is the way to remove
them.
102.
Those blessings are sweetest that
are won with prayers and won with thanks.
103.
The riches of His free grace cause
me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very
vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me.
104.
Chastisement is designed
for our good, to promote our highest interests. Look beyond the rod to the
All-wise hand that wields it!
105.
Better be pruned to grow
than cut up to burn.
106.
We spend our years with sighing;
it is a valley of tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
107.
Death is never sudden to a saint;
no guest comes unawares to him who keeps a constant table.
108.
Lord, be pleased to shake my clay
cottage before Thou throwest it down. Make it totter awhile before it doth
tumble. Let me be summoned before I am surprised.
109.
There is an essential
difference between the decease of the godly and the death of the ungodly. Death
comes to the ungodly man as a penal infliction, but to the righteous as a
summons to his Father's palace. To the sinner it is an execution, to the saint
an undressing from his sins and infirmities. Death to the wicked is the King of
terrors. Death to the saint is the end of terrors, the commencement of glory.
110.
In our first paradise in Eden
there was a way to go out but no way to go in again. But as for the heavenly
paradise, there is a way to go in, but not way to go out.
111.
A man's greatest care should be
for that place where he lives longest; therefore eternity should be his scope.
112.
Eternity to the godly is
a day that has no sunset; eternity to the wicked is a night that has no
sunrise.
113.
We fear men so much, because we
fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn
your thoughts to the wrath of God.
114.
Grace and glory differ very
little; the one is the seed, the other is the flower; grace is glory militant,
glory is grace triumphant.
115.
The right manner of growth is to
grow less in one's own eyes.
116.
He that will be knighted must
kneel for it, and he that will enter in at the strait gate must crowd for it—a
gate made so on purpose, narrow and hard in the entrance, yet, after we have
entered, wide and glorious, that after our pain our joy may be the sweeter.
117.
There is nothing destroyed by
sanctification but that which would destroy us.
118.
Take a saint, and put him into any
condition and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.
119.
That which a man spits against
heaven, shall fall back on his own face.
120.
Meditation will keep your hearts
and souls from sinful thoughts. When the vessel is full you can put in no
more.... If the heart be full of sinful thoughts, there is no room for holy and
heavenly thoughts: if the heart be full of holy and heavenly thoughts by
meditation, there is no room for evil and sinful thoughts.
121.
What is the reason there is so
much preaching and so little practice? For want of meditation.... Constant
thoughts are operative, and musing makes the fire burn. Green wood is not
kindled by a flash or spark, but by constant blowing.
122.
It is not the bee's touching of
the flower that gathers honey, but her abiding for a time upon the flower that
draws out the sweet. It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates
most, that will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.
123.
And therefore you who think so
basely of the Gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace
and comfort are not come, should know that it is on the way to them, and comes to
stay everlastingly with them; whereas your peace is going is going from you
every moment, and is sure to leave you without any hope of returning to you again.
Look not how the Christian begins, but ends.
124.
Your life is short, your duties
many, your assistance great, and your reward sure; therefore faint not, hold on
and hold up, in ways of well-doing, and heaven shall make amends for all
125.
If Christ has once possessed the
affections, there is no dispossessing of him again. A fire in the heart
overcomes all fires without.
126.
When we are foiled, let us believe
we shall overcome; when we have fallen, let us believe we shall rise again.
Jacob, after he received a blow which made him lame, yet would not give over
wrestling (Gen. 32:25) till he had obtained the blessing. So let us never give
up, but, in our thoughts knit the beginning, progress and end together, and
then we shall see ourselves in heaven out of the reach of all enemies.
128.
I had rather stand against the
cannons of the wicked than against the prayers of the righteous.
129.
Israel prevailed with God in
wrestling with Him, and therefore it is that he prevails with men also. If so
be that we will wrestle with God for a blessing, and prevail with Him, then we
need not to fear but we shall wrestle the enemies out of it also.
130.
Furnish thyself with arguments
from the promises to enforce thy pravers, and make them prevalent with God. The
promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee
fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the
field of prayer.... The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be
in prayer.
131.
Prayer is not intended to change
God's purpose, nor is it to move Him to form fresh purposes. God has
decreed that certain events shall come to pass through the means He has
appointed for their accomplishment.
132.
Prayer is the way and means God has appointed for the communication of
the blessings of His goodness to His people.
133.
The prevailing idea seems to be,
that I come to God and ask Him for something that I want, and that I expect Him
to give me that which I have asked. But this is a most dishonouring and
degrading conception. The popular belief reduces God to a servant, our
servant: doing our bidding, performing our pleasure, granting our
desires. No, prayer is a coming to God, telling Him my need, committing my
way unto the Lord, and leaving Him to deal with it as seemeth Him best.
134.
Real prayer is communion with God,
so that there will be common thoughts between His mind and ours. What is
needed is for Him to fill our hearts with His thoughts, and then His desires
will become our desires flowing back to Him.
135.
Prayer is not so much an act as it
is an attitude—an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.
136.
I have benefited by my praying for
others; for by making an errand to God for them, I have gotten something for
myself.
137.
And as men's diversions increase
from the world, so do their entanglements from Satan. When they have more to do
in the world than they can well manage, they shall have more to do from Satan
than they can well withstand.
138.
Afflictions, like bills and pikes,
make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of
prosperity, like unseen bullets, wound and kill us before they are discerned.
139.
Whatsoever we have over-loved,
idolized, and leaned upon, God has from time to time broken it, and made us to
see the vanity of it; so that we find the readiest course to be rid our
comforts is to set our hearts inordinately or immoderately upon them.
140.
Riches are long in getting with
much pains, hard in keeping with much care, quick in losing with more sorrow.
141.
Sin is a plague, yea, the greatest
and most infectious plague in the world; and yet, ah! how few are there that
tremble at it, that keep at a distance from it!
142.
"The peace of God is not
the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence."
143.
“God hides some ideal in every
human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do
some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden
impulse to do our best.”
144.
I imagine our first glimpse of
Heaven will cause us to gasp in amazement and delight. That first gasp will
likely be followed by many more as we continually encounter new sights in that
endlessly wonderful place.
145.
In Heaven, to look into God's
eyes will be to see what we've always longed to see: the person who made us for
His own good pleasure. Seeing God will be like seeing everything else for the
first time.
148.
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes,
smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
149.
When the power of love will overcome the love of
power, the world will know peace…Jimi Hendrix.
150.
Love is like a flower, you’ve got to let it grow…John Lenon.
151.
Love is a souvenir, once given, never forgotten, never let
it disappear…John Lennon.
152.
I have decided to stick with love, hate is too great a
burden to bear…Martin Luther King.
153.
Love is the only force capable of transforming an
enemy to a friend…Martin Luthr King.
154.
It is not the magnitude of our actions but the amount of
love that is put into them that matters…Mother Theressa.
155.
"Never
let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be
loved."
156.
"Some people are born into
wonderful families. Others have to find or create them. Being a member of a
family is a priceless membership that we pay nothing for but love."
157.
"These were people so
hungry for love that they were accepting substitutes. There were embracing
material things and expecting a sort of hug back. But it never works. You can't
substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for
a sense of comradeship.
158.
God will not be behind-hand in
love to us: for our drop, we shall receive an ocean.
159.
God would not rub so
hard if it were not to fetch out the dirt that is ingrained in our natures. God
loves purity so well He had rather see a hole than a spot in His child's
garments.
160.
Life is like a story told to a fool in a hurry; he will
never understand it till he had a first-hand experience.
161.
Even if you sacrifice your head like John the Baptist, they
will still ask your headless body, “what have you done for me?”.
162.
Anger is one letter away from danger; anytime you are angry
watch it so as not to endanger your life.
163.
What you got by faith you preserve by
faithfulness.
164.
He who blames others has a long journey, he who blames
himself is halfway there. He who blames no one has arrived.
165.
A man that cannot be led by God cannot lead you
anywhere.
166.
Your rewards in heaven is determined by the
kind of problems you are willing to solve for others.
167.
What you make happen for others, God will make happen for
you.
168.
An uncommon seed always create an uncommon
harvest.
169.
Three ways to fail in life (i) Complain about
everything, (ii) Blame others for your problem and (iii) never be greatful.
170.
When you lead, you forfeit the right to make
excuses.
171.
People who judge you by your past don’t belong to
your present.
172.
Do not save what is left after spending but spend what is
left after saving.
173.
Honesty is a very expensive gift, do not expect it from
cheap people.
174.
Empty pockets teach you a million things in life while a
full pocket spoils you in a million ways.
175.
Our eyes are in the front because it is more
important to look ahead than to look back.
176.
The different between school and life. In school, you are
taught a lesson and then given a test. In
life, you are give a test that teaches you a lesson.
177.
If you don’t build your dream, someone will hire you to help
them build theirs.
178.
The only place where success comes before work is
in the dictionary.
179.
If people are laughing at you because you are
different, you should be laughing at them because they are all the same.
180.
Wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it. Right
is right even if no one is doing it.
181.
Speak in such a way that others love to listen to you.
Listen in such a way that others love to speak to you.
182.
You cannot go beyond what you know.
183.
Sins are like credit card, enjoy now, pay later.
184.
Being defeated is often a temporary condition.
Giving up is what makes it permanent.
185.
Get close to God first before getting close to anyone
else. God without a man is still God but man without God is nothing.
186.
Life is like a camera. Focus on what’s important. Capture
the good times. Develop from the negatives. And if things don’t work out, just
take another shot.
187.
When people say they can’t see anything good in
you. Hug them and say, “life is difficult for the blind”.
188.
An arrow can only be shot by pulling it backwards.
When life is dragging you back with difficulties, it means that it’s going to
launch you into something great.. So focus and keep aiming.
189.
Ships don’t sink because of the water around them.
Ships sink because of the water that gets in them. Don’t let what’s happening
around you get inside you and weigh you down.
190.
When you run alone, it is called RACE. And when
God runs with you, it’s called GRACE.
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