Bytes of Wisdom
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Part 7 of 9
The Preacher’s Silent Prayer – A preacher who was popular with his congregation explained his success as the result of a silent prayer he offered each time he took the pulpit. It ran thus: “Lord, fill my mouth with worthwhile stuff, and nudge me when I’ve said enough.
The law of work does seem utterly unfair – but there it is, and nothing can change it; the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in money also. – Mark Twain
We shall never be satisfied until we find ourselves. It is this restlessness that accounts for all error we find in the outer. – Myrtle Fillmore
Refuse to receive anyone’s condemnation. In the independence of your own mentality, believe and feel that you are wonderful. – Ernest Holmes
We are here on earth as incarnated begins to be conscious channels for the Essential Self, our Divine Soul. This is not running away from life. It is entering life from the highest aspect and partaking of the supernal energies that are constantly lifting us. . . into higher and higher vibrations that we may experience the greater and grander realities of life. – John Randolph Price
It is your God-given duty to stake your claim to peace, poise, power, prosperity and health – God expects you to be satisfied with nothing less. – Emmet Fox
Two important things are, to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I’ve discovered, is everything. – Isaac Bashevic Singer
You are never given a wish or a dream without also being given the power to make it come true. – Richard Bach
Life is a promise. Fulfill it. – Mother Theresa
Looks are so deceptive that people should be done up like food packages with the ingredients clearly labeled. – Helen Hudson
Love is at the center of man’s being, and the calm, continuous, pulsations of life are governed by love. – Ernest Holmes
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with a strong and active faith. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt
There’s no thrill in easy sailing
When the skies are clear and blue.
There’s no joy in merely doing things
Which anyone can do.
But there is some satisfaction
That’s mighty sweet to take;
When you reach a destination
That you thought you couldn’t take. – Anon
The rule of holes: When you are in one, stop digging! – Mary Ivins
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. – Sig James Barrie
Any fool can make a rule – And every fool will mind it. – Henry David Thoreau
or lower than the peak of your desire.
And all existence has no wonder wrought
To which, ambition may not yet aspire.
Oh man! There is no planet, sun or star
Could hold you, if you but knew what you are!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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