NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 454

 

• ·       “The first duty of love is to listen.” — Paul Tillich

  ·       "Through the appropriation of the faith of Jesus, mortal man can foretaste in time the realities of eternity."

  ·       Style is the dress of thoughts. - Leo Booth

  ·       "The intellectual earmark of religion is certainty; the philosophical characteristic is consistency; the social fruits are love and service."

  ·       “Listening is an art that requires attention over talent, spirit over ego, others over self. ” — Dean Jackson

  ·       He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero. - Josh Billings

  ·       “When you are listening to somebody, completely, attentively, then you are listening not only to the words, but also to the feeling of what is being conveyed, to the whole of it, not part of it. ” —Jiddu Krishnamurti

  ·       "There truly exists within you a conspiracy of spiritual forces, a confederation of divine powers, whose exclusive purpose is to effect your final deliverance from material bondage and finite handicaps."

  ·       "It is the most unhappy people who most fear change." - Mignon McLaughlin

  ·       "Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that." – Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

  ·       "You will enjoy the celestial equivalents of your earthly humor all the way up through your long morontia, and then increasingly spiritual, careers."

  ·       "The foolish and the dead never change their opinion." - James Russell Lowell