WORDS OF WISDOM
WITH QUOTES FROM THE WORD OF GOD
He who is devoid of God’s power to forgive is devoid of God’s power to love.
If we cannot forgive, how can we expect God to forgive us?
If we say we have not sinned, then the truth is not in us and we speak against ourselves.
If we expect honor, integrity, loyalty and faithfulness from our spouse, our children, our parents and friends, shouldn’t we give the same?
If we attempt to be unfaithful to our mate, whether we succeed or not, is there a difference? Is the penalty disownment?
If we disown our children, why should not God disown us, his children? Do we ourselves deserve any better? Any worse?
How can we exempt ourselves from our own rules of conduct? You may turn your back if you have not sinned.
You can cast the first stone if you have always been honorable.
How can we condemn without forgiveness? Who is weaker then, the betrayer or the betrayed.
Is there such thing as a defense mechanism, one that helps those who are weak to cope? Strength, then, can be found in an amicable resolution to an issue, in settlement, in the ability to communicate and in the wisdom to understand.
Crises can make strangers of us all.
If we truly love one another then we must achieve reconciliation.
We all have the inherent sin nature, therefore, we are all capable of the same trespass.
To deny our own inabilities is self-deception.
If our children fail us, where did we… fail them?
He that exercises knowledge, keepeth understanding and findeth wisdom.
The justified man walketh in his integrity.
Who can say, I have made my heart clean, I am pure from sin?
The ways of a man are right in his own eyes, but the Lord weigheth the heart.
Bow down thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, and apply thine heart unto my knowledge sayeth the Lord.
Apply thine heart unto instruction, and thine ears to the words of knowledge.
For I was my father’s son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother. He taught me, let your heart retain my words; get wisdom, get understanding and forget it not; wisdom shall give thy head an ornament of grace and a crown of glory.
My son keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not thy mother’s word. Bind them continually upon thine heart, and tie them about thy neck.
Whosoever is wise will observe these things and shall understand the loving-kindness of the Lord. A father must turn to the Lord in his hour of trouble and the Lord will guide him out of distress, away from the wrong path.
The Lord will make calm a stormy sea.
The merciful man doeth good to his own soul, but he that is unforgiving troubleth his own soul. A father having separated himself from an unfaithful child, in his heart seeketh, for a mediator with wisdom.
A father loveth at all times and learns its meaning when tested.
– C.S. Craig October 1994