NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 1523

 

• ·      "Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy, based upon excellence of performance." - James Bryant Conant

  ·      “What Jesus is now about to do, submit to death on the cross, he does of his own free will. In foretelling this experience, he said: “The Father loves and sustains me because I am willing to lay down my life. But I will take it up again. No one takes my life away from me—I lay it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it up. I have received such a commandment from my Father.””

  ·      Give what you can when you are able. —Brooke

  ·      Humility is the surest sign of strength. - Thomas Merton

  ·      Hope for the best. Prepare for the best. —Brooke

  ·      “Faith transforms the philosophic God of probability into the saving God of certainty in the personal religious experience.”

  ·      Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives it. - Marcus Aurelius

  ·      “Although the tradition-bound and priest-ridden Hebrews, as a people, refused to accept either Jesus’ gospel of the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man or Peter’s and Paul’s proclamation of the resurrection and ascension of Christ (subsequent Christianity), the rest of the Roman Empire was found to be receptive to the evolving Christian teachings.”

  ·      Even when it speaks, humility listens. - Thomas Merton

  ·      I practice tolerance because it is in my interest. -Voltaire 

  ·      “Teachers must be free beings, real leaders, to the end that philosophy, the search for wisdom, may become the chief educational pursuit.”