WISE SAYINGS

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1. “Heresy” is often nothing more than the rejection of widely held error.

2. It is better to be an atheist who does the will of God, than a so-called Christian who does not." — George MacDonald

3. To believe the promise of Jesus that his followers shall posses the earth, and at the same time to face our enemies unarmed and defenseless, preferring to incur injustice rather than doing wrong ourselves, is indeed the narrow way – Dietrich Bonhoeffer

4. “Measure thy life by loss instead of gain, not by the wine drunk but by the wine poured forth; for love’s strength stands in life’s sacrifice; and whoso suffers most hath most to give.”

5. Doubt is not always a sign that a man is wrong; it may be a sign that he is thinking. — Oswald Chambers

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6. Failures keep you humble; success keeps You Glowing; but only God keeps you going.

7. “To say that God’s goodness may be different in kind from man’s goodness, what is it but saying, with a slight change of phraseology, that God may possibly not be good?” —John Stuart Mill

8. Whenever God closes one door He always opens another, even though sometimes it’s hell in the hallway.

9. Jesus is the spiritual lens in human likeness which makes visible to the material creature Him who is invisible.

10. Man judges a person by his past deeds, and administers penalties for his wrongdoing. God judges a person by his present character, and disciplines him that he may become righteous.

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11. Meekness is strength with nothing to prove.

12. However much men may be interested in themselves, there are few indeed who are interesting to themselves. — George MacDonald

13. God whispers to us in our pleasure, speaks to us in our conscience, but shouts in our pain. — C.S.Lewis.

14. “All truth passes through three stages. First is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self-evident.” —Arthur Schopenhauer, Philosopher, 1788-1860.

15. To pardon is to set the prisoner free and then discover the prisoner was you.

16. It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.