You have a solemn obligation to take care of yourself because you never know when the world will need you.
Hillel the Elder
“The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.”
Proverbs 9:10
The New International Version
Churches are good for prayer, but so are garages and cars and mountains and showers and dance floors.
Anne Lamott
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There is no feeling in a human heart which exists in that heart alone—which is not, in some form or degree, in every heart.
George MacDonald
Discretion will guard you, Understanding will watch over you,
Proverbs 2:11
The New American Standard Bible
The leisure of the monks is not the privilege of those who can afford to take the time; it is the virtue of those who give to everything they do the time it deserves to take.
David Steindl-Rast
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A Jesus-over-everything lifestyle is a Jesus-take-over-me-and-my-lifestyle so I don’t ruin my one precious life. But even more than that, it’s the understanding that the priority of Jesus brings order to the chaos of our lives, a job only God is big enough to do.
Lisa Whittle
And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, “If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all.”
Mark 9:35
The English Standard Version
Truth is the seal of God.
The Talmud
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God takes men’s hearty desires and will, instead of the deed, when they have not power to fulfill it; but he never took the bare deed instead of the will.
Richard Baxter
Who is like a wise man? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, And the sternness of his face is changed.
Ecclesiastes 8:1
The New King James Version
The London Times asked various writers for essays on the topic “What’s Wrong with the World?” G. K. Chesterton replied (in perhaps the shortest essay in history),
Dear Sirs:
I am.
Sincerely yours, G. K. Chesterton
G. K. Chesterton
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Only the soul that with an overwhelming impulse and a perfect trust gives itself up forever to the life of other men, finds the delight and peace which such complete self-surrender has to give.
Phillips Brooks
My child, eat honey, for it is good, and the honeycomb is sweet to the taste. In the same way, wisdom is sweet to your soul. If you find it, you will have a bright future, and your hopes will not be cut short.
Proverbs 24:13-14
The New Living Translation
Rabbi Eleazar said: “Repent one day before your death.” Said his pupils: “Does man know when he would die?” He answered: “Then he surely must repent today, lest he die tomorrow.”
Eliezer ben Hyrcanus
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God is better served in resisting a temptation to evil than in many formal prayers.
William Penn
“‘These are the things you shall do: Speak each man the truth to his neighbor; Give judgment in your gates for truth, justice, and peace; Let none of you think evil in your heart against your neighbor; And do not love a false oath. For all these are things that I hate,’ Says the Lord.”
Zechariah 8:16-17
The New King James Version
The first of all beautiful things is the continual possession of God.
Gregory of Nazianzus
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Duties are ours; events are God’s. This removes an infinite burden from the shoulders of a miserable, tempted, dying creature. On this consideration only can he securely lay down his head and close his eyes.
Richard Cecil
But I will sing of your strength; I will sing aloud of your steadfast love in the morning. For you have been to me a fortress and a refuge in the day of my distress.
Psalm 59:16
The English Standard Version
It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois de la Rochefoucauld
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Sin is never at a stay; if we do not retreat from it, we shall advance in it; and the farther on we go, the more we have to come back.
Issac Barrow
As for me, I call to God, and the Lord saves me. Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice. He rescues me unharmed from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me.
Psalm 55:16-18
The New International Version
A wise man reflects before he speaks; a fool speaks, and then reflects on what he has uttered.
French saying
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If you have done your fellow man a little wrong, let it be a great wrong in your eyes and rectify it. If you have done him much good, let it be little in your eyes. If he has done you a little good, let it be great in your eyes. If he has done you a great wrong, let it be little in your eyes.
Nathan the Babylonian
For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain.
Philippians 1:21
The New International Version
A wise person will desire no more than he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.
Benjamin Franklin
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They were services like no others, these times in Barracks 28, within our concentration camp. A single meeting night might include a recital of the Magnificat in Latin by a group of Roman Catholics, a whispered hymn by some Lutherans, and a sotto-voce chant by Eastern Orthodox women. With each moment the crowd around us would swell, packing the nearby platforms, hanging over the edges, until the high structures groaned and swayed. At last either Betsie or I would open the Bible. Because only the Hollanders could understand the Dutch text we would translate aloud in German. And then we would hear the life-giving words passed back along the aisles in French, Polish, Russian, Czech, back into Dutch. They were little previews of heaven, these evenings beneath the light bulb.
Corrie ten Boom
Receive my instruction, and not silver, And knowledge rather than choice gold; For wisdom is better than rubies, And all the things one may desire cannot be compared with her.
Proverbs 8:10-11
The New King James Version
God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.
French proverb
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