Daily Wisdom
Daily Wisdom
Read some of these each day
Fear is not trusting in God.
Don’t take offence, be like Jesus. He forgave even from the cross.
Don’t be frightened of being frightened.
Things are interesting when you understand them.
The strongest people are there every day.
Banks survive by people being in debt.
Sometimes a man can meet his destiny on his way trying to avoid it.
One of the hardest things in life is to know which bridges to cross and which to burn.
People are not interested until they are affected.
Everyone comes from one origin and there are no colours just different shades.
Story of the lieutenant during the Falklands War who did not know what to do so he asked the enemy to surrender. He had 100 men the enemy had 800. The enemy surrendered.
A Pastor grew cucumbers and his cucumbers alone survived terrible weather in Vietnam. He was in debt and needed a lot of money. Because his cucumbers survived their value had gone up and he was able to pay off his debts
A Vietnese man was beaten up by people in his village for becoming a Christian. He had only been a Christian for one day
The only thing percentage rises do for poor people, pensioners included, is keep them poor.
There are no perfect people only perfect intentions.
Birthdays are supposed to be good for you. The more you have the longer you live.
When you embark on revenge dig two graves.
Those who do not rememberer the past are condemned to repeat it.
Progress means making things easier.
One day you realise that you have more past than future.
Hateful people try to drive wedges between every demographic including race religion and gender.
A house divided against itself cannot stand said Jesus. Abraham Lincoln said 'No nation that divided itself has ever been successful'.
Excuses sound better to the people making them.
Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship.
You can’t have the blessing without the sacrifice.
I may disagree with you but I will defend your right to speak out.
God knows how to humble you without humiliating you and how exalt you without flattering you.
A man once said I have all the money I need but I have lost all of value that I possessed.
Misery loves company.
Unity does not have to be uniformity.
Do I not destroy my enemy when I make him my friend. (Abraham Lincoln).
Mahatma Ghandi said Christ’s Sermon on the mount fills me with bliss even today. The sweet verses even today have the power to quench my agony of soul.
If things are wrong attend to them don’t ignore them.
Sometimes you need to pick the least bad option.
If you are going to find racists everywhere you will find the real racists nowhere.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers that can’t be questioned.
It is easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.
The more that society drifts from the truth the more they will hate those that speak it. (George Orwell).
The most important step a person can take is the next one not the first one.
It is the mark of a genius to explain a complex thing in a simple way.
It is the mark of a charlatan to explain a simple thing in a complex way.
The Meek will inherit the earth. (Beatitudes).
Those who have swords and know how to use them but choose to keep them sheathed are the real meek who will inherit the earth.
We suffer one of two pains. The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
Multitasking cannot be done. It is not possible to do more than one thing at a time.
When you put a chair up against a lion it is confused because it doesn’t know which leg to tackle first.
Everyone wants to save the world, but no one wants to help mum with the dishes.
Because people do not go to church, we do not have a point where we come together. As a result, we are fragmenting quite badly.
If you are going to fix complicated problems, then you need to fix simple ones first.
The game of dividing people up by group identity ends in disaster.
You can’t cross the ocean unless you are willing to lose sight of the shore.
When you sell arms, they will inevitably end up with people who can afford them.
If we were perfect, we wouldn’t need a saviour.
When we do things for other people, is part of that because we need to feel part of something and not independent of everything.
Repentance means change of mind.
Malcolm Muggeridge said western man has educated himself into imbecility.
Do things to get better don’t wait to get better to do things.
Each new day is a gift that is why they call it the present.
Don’t shop where you can’t work.
True words are not pleasing and pleasing words are not true.
Learning has to be functional and have meaning in your life.
You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry. (Abraham Lincoln).
Courage is fear that has said its prayers.
When you stand for nothing, you will fall for anything.
In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act. (George Orwell).
So long as you believe that evil has horns you will never recognise its true face.
If the foundations are destroyed what can the righteous do. (Psalm 11:3).
I can’t help but notice that everyone who is for abortion has already been born.
Not everyone wants to be a good person.
No one is hated more than he who speaks the truth. ( Plato).
If women fail to value good men men will fail to value being good.
When you are serving others, you are serving God.
Anything that cannot continue indefinitely won’t.
Would you rather rule in hell or serve in heaven.
The kingdom of God advances from triumph to triumph with all of them cleverly disguised as disasters.
Evidence should shape theories. Theories should not shape evidence.
God created science and God created religion, so there should be no conflict.
In the middle of a war you need to remember what you are fighting for.
It’s a huge mistake to judge a system by its intentions rather than by its results. (Milton Friedman).
There is a difference between hate speech and speeches that you hate.
A phobia is an irrational fear of something not a hatred or dislike of something.
My rights don’t end where your feelings begin.
You don’t win wars you win battles.
Why do you have kids? Because you get a chance to make people who are better than yourself.
One way to waste your talent is to pass a church that needs you and go to one that doesn’t.
If someone shows you respect 1000 times then no respect once which is more important.
If you don’t read the newspapers, you are uninformed. If you do read the newspapers, you are misinformed. (Mark Twain 1835).
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. (Mark Twain).
Political correctness is the elevation of sensitivity over truth.
If you have a 'why to live' you can bear almost any how.
Just because you obey the law doesn’t mean you are moral. You just might be afraid.
As part of God’s creation, we have important work to do and the consequences of not doing that work are real.
A smart man learns from his mistakes. A wise man learns from the mistakes of others.
The meaning of life is when everything you do matters.
If you are good at one thing it sometimes means you can’t be good at another thing at the same time.
Hard times create strong people, strong people create good times, good times create weak people, weak people create hard times.
If you keep seeking vengeance for injustice done to your ancestors in the past, you will never live the future they wanted you to have.
One road leads to home and a thousand lead to the wilderness. (CS Lewis).
What do you mean by a safe abortion? You mean the baby survived.
Stupidity isn’t a virus but it appears to act like one.
The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.
The greatest predictor of wealth is age.
What is best young and poor or old and rich?
When people choose not to believe in God they do not thereafter believe in nothing they become capable of believing in anything. (GK Chesterton).
When I was a boy of 14 my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. When I got to 21 I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in 7 years. (Mark Twain).
You should possess ideas rather than have ideas possess you.
After all is said and done more is said than done.
Tolerance will reach such a level that intelligent people will be banned from thinking so as not to offend the imbeciles. (Dostoyevsky).
First, we overlook evil. Then we permit evil. Then we legitimise evil. Then we promote evil. Then we celebrate evil. Then we persecute those who still call it evil. (Fr Dwight Longenecker 1956).
Anger is the only emotion that is linked to heart damage over time.
Never argue with stupid people. They will always try to drag you down to their level and beat you with their experience. (Mark Twain).
You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.
People used to laugh when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well they are not laughing now. (Bob Monkhouse).
The definition of insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly and expecting a different outcome.
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what is not true. The other is not to believe what is true.
Goodbye is a contraction of God be with you. It was used when people were leaving one city and going to another.
Mortgage means death pledge. ( A French term used in the middle ages).
Scientists have been so preoccupied with ‘if they could' they forgot to ask 'if they should’.
Called Ockam's razor, it advises you to seek the most economical solution. In layman's terms, the simplest explanation is usually the best one.
The moment you get paid you think like an employee. Entrepreneurs work for free.
A fake teacher is someone who doesn’t do what they teach. A real teacher does what they teach every day.
A poor person in spirit will say I can’t afford this, or I can’t do this. A rich person in spirit will say ‘how can I afford this’ or ‘how can I do this’.
Compare yourself with who you were yesterday and not with someone else today.
You have to be willing to be a fool to advance.
Everyone is someone to somebody. No one is nobody to everyone.
Democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the others that have ever been tried.
Just because you are doing a lot more doesn’t mean you are getting a lot more done.
Loving your neighbour is not just loving those who agree with you.
When a child is wanted ‘we are having a baby’ when it is unwanted it is a 'foetus'.
Don’t practice what you don’t want to become.
Every time you let something win it grows. If you defeat it then it shrinks.
Watch out for dopamine kicks.
Be careful about what you say and what you do.
Money doesn’t change a person it reveals them.
Dividing society into two groups and then blaming all the problems on one of them never ends well.
Beware who you share good news with. You want to share good news with people who will be genuinely happy for you.
If you ever feel useless remember it took 20 years, 4 US presidents, and trillions of dollars to replace the Taliban with the Taliban.
When people get used to preferential treatment equal treatment feels like discrimination.
If an idea is read about and not experienced it can pass over you, but if an idea is felt first hand it can become part of you.
A lot of people are possessed by ideas rather than possessing the ideas.
By your fruits you will be known.
If you stand for nothing then you will fall for anything.
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate it oppresses. ( Carl Jung.)
Every form of addiction is bad no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol morphine or idealism. (Carl Jung).
Racists may prefer one race to another but they will always prefer themselves first.
The profit motive will always prevail.
The world is not made out of matter it is made out of what matters.
When you are a parent of older children then your happiness is totally dependent on theirs.
She didn’t tell us anything we didn’t know but she reminded us of things we had forgotten.
People don’t vote for reality they vote for their dreams.
To get something you’ve never had you need to do something you’ve never done.
If you don’t fail, you are not trying.
Household income is going down as number of people in each household goes down.
Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the previous one and wiser than the one to come. (George Orwell).
People don’t have to be knowledgeable about everything, but they can be knowledgable about their own ignorance.
Ever more people have the means to live but no meaning to live for. (Frankl).
Courage is not lack of fear it is acting in the face of it. (Mark Twain).
Feminism is the belief that women deserve the rights of men the privileges of women and the accountability of children.
Israel means “we who struggle with God”.
It is often more important to know that you are wrong than to prove you are right.
An appeaser is a person who feeds the crocodile in the hope that it will eat them last. (Winston Churchill).
There is something fundamentally wrong with a relationship when you/they leave the room, and you immediately feel better.
Don’t do anything for a person that they can do for themselves.
Fires will be started to testify that 2 and 2 are four. Swords will be drawn to prove leaves on trees are green. (Chesterton).
Some very good people have poor arguments.
In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual. (Galileo).
Life is not measured by the breaths we take but by the moments that take our breath away.
It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than a gardener in a war.
I don’t know how to act my age. I’ve never been this old before.
Living without fear is a gift from God. Animals and different societies and peoples often live in constant fear.
The light is always there even if you can’t see it.
A man hiding during the Second World War wrote I believe in the sun even when it is not shining, I believe in love even when I do not feel it, I believe in God even when he is silent.
Never quit anything that you are good at.
Exodus means the way forward.
History is just a set of lies that everyone agrees on. (Napoleon).
People’s perception of happiness seems to be motivated by what they don’t have rather than an understanding of what happiness really is.
When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.
If a man wants to say he is a woman that is up to him. If he wants me to say he is a woman that is up to me.
Freedom is not the right to do what you want but to do what you ought to do.
There are no solutions only trade offs.
Evolutionists believe in a miracle without a miracle maker.
About schools: Why should we be surprised when we give our kids to Caesar that they come back acting like Romans. (Beacham).
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you need.
Whoever is willing to trade their freedom for security deserves neither.
If you are a strict parent, you will be able to spoil your grandchildren. If you are not strict parent, you will be bringing up your grandchildren.
In 1933 the Oxford Union voted 275 to 153 when they said ‘This house will under no circumstances fight for King and country’.
We don’t get to choose if we live or die. We only get to choose how we live before we die.
In matters of style swim with the current.
In matters of principal stand like a rock. (T Jefferson).
If the Arabs put down their arms there will be no more fighting. If Israel puts down its arms there will be no more Israel. (Golda Meyer).
If you want to change laws, it is difficult. But if you change the way you enforce the laws then it is easy, and it is as good as changing the laws. (Elon Musk).
A man does not call a lined crooked unless he has seen a straight line. (C S Lewis).
A Person asked why God would allow tragedies to happen. Does God want us to suffer.
This was the reply.
I asked for strength and God gave me difficulties to make me strong.
I asked for wisdom and God gave me problems to solve.
I asked for courage and God gave me dangers to overcome.
I asked for love and God gave me troubled people to help.
My prayers were answered.
The selfless help the helpless until the helpless help themselves.
If God were small enough for our minds, He wouldn’t be big enough for our problems.
Noah didn’t build the ark when it was raining.
Those who believe absurdities end up committing atrocities. (Voltaire).
Churches don’t lead people to God. God leads people to churches.
Atheists can only exist in a Christian society.
Be careful not to be so open minded that your brains fall out.
No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot. (Mark Twain).