NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 77

·         “To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.”—Carrie Chapman Catt

• ·         "Brotherhood constitutes a fact of relationship between every personality in universal existence. No person can escape the benefits or the penalties that may come as a result of relationship to other persons."
  ·         “Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.”—Elizabeth Andrew
  ·         "Religious insights, spiritual motivations, lead directly to religious actions, unselfish acts of social service and altruistic benevolence."
  ·         "Sincere men are unafraid of the critical examination of their true convictions and noble ideals." – Jesus
  ·         Whatever a man’s age may be, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-coloured flower in his button hole. – Mark Twain
  ·         Worry is the interest you pay on trouble before it’s due.
  ·         Power in defence of freedom is greater that power on behalf of tyranny and oppression. – Malcom X
  ·         "The story of man's ascent from seaweed to the lordship of earthly creation is indeed a romance of biologic struggle and mind survival."
  ·         “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Socrates
  ·         “Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”—F. Scott Fiztgerald
  ·         "There is but one form of prayer which is appropriate for all God's children, and that is: 'Nevertheless, your will be done.' "
  ·         "[Jesus] was not a militant revolutionist; he was a progressive evolutionist. He engaged in the destruction of that which was only when he simultaneously offered his fellows the superior thing which ought to be."
  ·         “Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.”—Malcolm S. Forbes
  ·         “Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.”
  — Anthony Douglas Williams
  ·         "The coming of the Spirit of Truth on Pentecost made possible a religion which is neither radical nor conservative; it is neither the old nor the new; it is to be dominated neither by the old nor the young."
  ·         “To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out the hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it- who can say this is not greatness? ” — William Makepeace Thackeray
  ·         “A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.”—James N. Watkins
  ·         "Angels are superior to you in spiritual status, but they are not your
  judges or accusers."
  ·         "Faith is trust. Faith is a deep sense of connectedness with Being." Eckhart Tolle
  ·         “Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.”—Harriet Beecher Stowe