Aphorisms for Living

“You’re allowed your own beliefs and your own faith, but you don’t have to use it like a weapon when it could be a tool.” Dolly Parton

“The greater the federal government’s responsibility, the greater their authority.” Alexander Hamilton

“In youthful seasons, emotions glow brighter than reason.” RW

“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense

“Parenting of the highest value is living an example. It is a longer payoff, but values absorbed are values retained while those imposed are often cast aside. Your patience is the essence of the example.” RW

“To think one step ahead is a good idea. To think two steps ahead is a plan. To think more than two steps ahead is a mission. In a mission, you find purpose and in purpose, you find a life.” RW

“Hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently.” Apostle Paul / Romans 8:24-25

“If you feel tension in the moment of a decision, pause and ask yourself questions. A red flag of tension is often God’s way of leading you to a different decision. ” Andy Stanley

“Treat time as the precious blessing it is. Strive every day to be productive in work and leisure, generous in means and manner, and forgiving in thought and action.” RW

“The closer we get to God, the more our sin is revealed because we are learning to admit our sin and trust in His mercy. Don’t be fooled into thinking that makes you unworthy. Such thinking is the devil’s work.” RW

“Procrastination is the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing here, naked and dejected with a lost opportunity.” Dr. M.L. King, Jr.

“Laziness kills Ambition. Anger kills Wisdom. Fear kills Dreams. Ego kills Growth. Jealously kills Peace. Doubt kills Confidence.” Now, read each of those backward. Author unknown

“Progress requires we extend good faith and grace – even to people with whom we deeply disagree.” Barack Obama

“Think of your charity as a loan to the Lord which he will repay with eternal life.” RW

“Imagine if our world did not provide the distraction of televisions, computers, and smartphones. Consider how much better parent, farmer, and friend, spouse, helper, and healer, we could be.” RW

“Nothing resolved with deftness of words or swiftness of action is as powerful or long lasting as that which is resolved in prayer.” RW

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” Ghandi

“To forgive your enemies is a great blessing, an excise of hate, a purging of pain, and rest from the effort to sustain a negative emotion.” RW

“There is nothing too great for His power and nothing too small for His love”. R. Goforth

“I know longer listen to what people say. I just watch what they do. Behavior never lies.” Winston Churchill

“Where the Spirit is, there is love and unity, but where the Spirit is absent, there is hostility and tension.” Father Samuel Nsengiyumva

“To see the face of a child in a senior, is to appreciate God’s sense of humor.” RW

“Among the 915 verses in Proverbs, there are a significant number devoted to the wisdom of holding one’s tongue. Let that sink in.” RW

“In the case of money, the core disciplines are simplicity and generosity, regularly giving beyond our comfort level in order to rob money of its claim to secure our lives apart from God, and to release its blessings in the lives of the materially poor.” Andy Crouch

“People retire to faraway places for the freedom of controlling their time and space. The price of this freedom is frequent loneliness.” RW

“The only thing worse than being blind is having sight but no vision.” Helen Keller

“Success in life is not measured by how few problems you have. It is measured by how you respond to those that come your way.” Author Unknown

“No decision is too small to be important. Making good, small decisions, teaches you the personal discipline and sacrifice necessary to make good, big decisions.” RW

“Among the sin in each of us is enough goodness to love.” RW

“Profundity expressed in simple terms is both poetic and powerful. Therefore, strive to have mighty thoughts and few words.” RW

“The emotional, spiritual, relational, and physical benefits of rest are aptly captured in the fourth commandment to treat the sabbath holy.” RW

“Let me tell you a truth. You have great passions and talents within you. Resolve yourself to find yours, to cultivate and apply them even in the face of the steady stream of fear and hesitation that Satan pours into your mind.” RW

“If you deliver an undeserved kindness, you are guaranteed to receive one in return, either from another, or in knowing that you extended the kindness.” RW

“When everything seems to be against you, remember that the airplane takes off
against the wind, not with it.” Henry Ford