October 31, 2010:

Ponderings of a Pilgrim PASTOR

“Brief Wisdom”

Recently, my “Ponderings” shared a number of wise and witty sayings.  It was suggested I do that again, so here they are!

“Man does not live by words alone despite the fact that sometimes he hasto eat them” — Adlai Stevenson

“Delusions of grandeur make me feel a lot better about myself.” — Writer Jane Wagner

“At least a bad conscience can make life interesting.” — Soren Kierkegaard

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.” — President Harry Truman

“The way you get to know yourself is by the expressions on other people’s faces, because that’s the only thing you can see.” — Gil Scott-Heron

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” — Plato

“Necessity never made a good bargain.” — Benjamin Franklin

“Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.  We get very little wisdom from success, you know.” — Playwright William Saroyan

“In the absence of clearly defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.” — Novelist Robert Heinlein

“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.” — Actress Shirley MacLaine

“Stupid people in large groups can do dangerous things.”

“Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.” — Benjamin Franklin

“No one can build his security on the nobleness of another person.” — Novelist Willa Cather

“ Without music to decorate it, life is little more than dull moments and deadlines.”

“Make no friends with those given to anger, and do not associate with hotheads, or you may become one yourself.” — Proverbs 22:24

Love,
Pastor Dave