NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 456

 

• ·       “One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.” — Bryant H. McGill

  ·       "Convictions about God may be arrived at through wise reasoning, but the individual becomes God-knowing only by faith, through personal experience."

  ·       “The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood. The best way to understand people is to listen to them.” — Ralph Nichols

  ·       "The entire universe is organized and administered on the representative plan. Representative government is the divine ideal of self-government among nonperfect beings."

  ·       “Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person... You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty their heart. ” — Thich Nhat Hanh

  ·       "Religion believes unreservedly in the existence and reality of a God who fosters personality survival."

  ·       "He who limps is still walking." - Stanislaw J. Lec

  ·       "[Jesus] depended on the heavenly Father as a child leans upon its earthly parent, and his fervent faith never for one moment doubted the certainty of the heavenly Father's overcare."

  ·       "The advances of true civilization are all born in [the] inner world of mankind."

  ·       Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. - Richard Steele