Wise Quotes n phrases

[cog41]

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak, courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.~~~Winston Churchill


"Silent" and "listen" are spelled with the same letters.~~~~Unknown

 

[JTM]

"the temple of truth has never suffered so much from woodpeckers on the outside as from termites within"....
...Vance Havner


"the secret of homemade rule is self rule, first being ourselves what we want our children to be."............Andrew Murray

the second one is what most men struggle with every day...

(the first is important, too)

 

[cog41]

The brain can argue, but it takes a heart to comfort.~~~Samuel Chadwick


Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism.~~~~ George Washington

 

[cog41]

Good is not good when better is expected. ~~~Thomas Fuller


Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence of what sort f man he is.~~~~C.S.Lewis

 

[cog41]

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.~~~ Albert Schweitzer



Do something wonderful, people might imitate it.~~~ Albert Schweitzer

 

[Brent Heilman]

"Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets. For it and knowledge can raise men to the divine." - Beethoven

 

[cog41]

"God's last name is not Dammit."~~~~~Author unknown



"Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merley what others think you are."~~~~~John Wooden

 

[cog41]

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government, those entrusted with power, in time, and by slow operations, have perverted it into tyranny." ~~~~ THomas Jefferson



"Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surley the ugliest thing in the world." ~~~~Francis Schaeffer

 

[Godfrey Daniel]

He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.
But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

I John 2: 9-11

 

[Godfrey Daniel]

"Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another."

- Homer, The Iliad

 

[cog41]

"Even the most painstaking history is a bridge across an eternal mystery." ~~ Bruce Catton, A Preface to History


"The lesson of history is rarley learned by the actors themselves." ~~ James A. Garfield

 

[ThanatosTA]

Some of these quotes are great, thanks for starting this thread and thanks to everyone for contributing to it. Now I have something to read when I have to deal with something I don't like so I can get in the right mindset again.

 

[cog41]

"to the violent, violence is the only argument they understand. They understand justice only when it is administered from strength."~~~Louis L'Amour


"Pay attention"~~~ my PaPaw

 

[cog41]

It's not what you'd do with a million,
If riches should e're be your lot:
But what are you doing at present,
With the dollar and quarter you got?

From Nuts & Nuggets 1942

 

[cog41]

"If lips and life do not agree, the testimony will not amount to much." ~~~H.A. Ironside


" I'll lift you and you lift me, and we'll both ascend together." ~~~~~John Greenleaf Whittier

 

[6229 MAC]

ZIG ZIEGLER , I am almost sure...
Insanity is best described as *doing the same thing over and over, expecting different results*

 

[Brother JC]

"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors--and miss." - Lazarus Long

 

[Brother JC]

"[W]e must master the art of living together, the finest of all arts, whereby men of many races and many faiths dwell in mutual respect and goodwill. While we have made great strides toward that goal, we are still far from it. Still there is racial rancor - a thing slithered with blood and black with bitterness; still there is religious bigotry which blasphemes the genius of brotherhood. For such things there is no place in this our Brotherland, where men rule themselves, and no man has any right that does not belong to all his fellows." - Brother Joseph Fort Newton

 

[Brent Heilman]

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the true source of all art and science." - Albert Einstein

 

[ThanatosTA]

"If you hear a voice within you say 'you can not paint', then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced."

-Vincent van Gogh