“If you have overcome your inclination and not been overcome by it, you have reason to rejoice.”

A word to the wise is sufficient

Even the whole of life is not sufficient for thorough learning.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

No one can be so welcome a guest that he will not become an annoyance when he has stayed three continuous days in a friend’s house.

There are occasions when it is undoubtedly better to incur loss than to make gain.

To an honest man, it is an honor to have remembered his duty.

Ah yes, the gods use us mortals as footballs!

Unexpected results are the rule rather than the exception.

Smooth words in place of gifts.

Badly gotten, badly spent.

Let not your expenditure exceed your income.

It is wretched business to be digging a well just as thirst is mastering you.

And one eye-witness weighs More than ten hear-fays. Seeing is believing, All the world o’er.

It is difficult to fly without wings.

Know this, that troubles come swifter than the things we desire.

It is easy to rule over the good.

It is with antiquity as with ancestry, nations are proud of the one, and individuals of the other; but if they are nothing in themselves, that which is their pride ought to be their humiliation.

This life is not something that is imposed upon us; we receive it and work with it.

Add to that the envy that one child feels for the accomplishments of the other;

I’m not an expert in the sociological realities of all the pastors in the world, but I would say that there are some very, very positive things about the state of integrity in church leaders.

In pain a new time is born.

We must assess our thoughts and beliefs and reckon whether they are moving us closer to conformity to Christ or farther away from it.

There is only God. REALITY is God and has never required your belief.

I’ve played different nationalities, and everything from vulnerable to strong to crooked to demented.