NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 424

 

• ·       "Belief has attained the level of faith when it motivates life and shapes the mode of living."

  ·       No legacy is so rich as honesty. - William Shakespeare

  ·       “We need to remember that circumstances don’t make a person, they reveal a person. ” — Emma Jameson

  ·       "God is everywhere present; the Universal Father rules the circle of eternity."

  ·       There is a paradox in pride: It make some ridiculous, but prevents others from becoming so. - Charles Caleb Colton

  ·       “Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.” — William Ellery Channing

  ·       "The religion of Jesus is a new gospel of faith to be proclaimed to struggling humanity. This new religion is founded on faith, hope, and love."

  ·       "The essence of [Jesus'] teaching was love and service, the loving worship which a creature son voluntarily gives in recognition of, and response to, the loving ministry of God his Father; the freewill service which such creature sons bestow upon their brethren in the joyous realization that in this service they are likewise serving God the Father."

  ·       “Life has many ways of testing a person's will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.” — Paulo Coelho

  ·       "We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another." - Jonathan Swift

  ·       "Mortal men have something from God himself which actually dwells within them; their bodies are the temples thereof."

  ·       "No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another." - Charles Dickens