Posts tagged Wisdom
10 Of My Own Quotable Quotes – Part 70
Dec 22nd
1. No negative force can withstand the tip of a sharp pen driven or controlled by a focused mind. Wisdom will not diminish when the inspired keep recording their inspiration for posterity. Wisdom contained in one vessel has limited chances to impact humanity. Wisdom shared is vital for human growth and inspiration.
2. Everything we will ever desire for life on this earth is in God. God lives outside our definition of property ownership. He lives outside time as we know it. If you are willing and obedient to what he desires of you, you will eat of the good of the land, guaranteed. God will step into your zone. Will you ready when He does?
3. When we use God given resources for show off then we are compromising the purpose of wealth. It is God who gives you the power to make wealth. He however puts an expectation for stewardship not misappropriation. Be careful when you get blessed that it does not come to sorrow due to misuse. Ask for Ananias and Saphira for lessons on accounting for blessings
4. The fact that you are out of a situation physically does not necessarily mean the situation is out of you. If you have experienced extreme poverty, you may still behave as if you have nothing even after upgrading your financial status. Its in the mind. It takes determination and willingness to fore-go this mindset.
5. No one ever makes mistakes deliberately. You may see an error prone person but they are possibly at their optimum best. Never use your own thoughts as benchmarks for others. You can short change them.
6. He who gives advice has to be careful to obey what he proclaims or suggests. Life is a culmination of seasons. You may be giving judgment today only to be the accused tomorrow. Be conscious of the reason behind every season. You reaction to the season will determine how far you will go in life.
7. The strength of any family is in the things they choose to do together. There is no place for individuality and isolation. A family that prays and plays together is a healthy family. More-so, a family must be the safest place where the deeper issues of life are discussed without anyone feeling the brunt of judgmentalism.
8. It is easy to see problems and shortcomings in another person than the ones you carry. The reason why you are almost a specialist at judging others is largely because there is abundance of the same shortcomings in you.
9. Leaders are in the business of creating winners in those they lead. Leaders who view followers as competition will never think of hiring people who are sharper and more articulate. Furthermore they cease to develop themselves beyond where they are. Stagnation is a detriment to a leader’s greatness.
10. Your mind, will power and your emotions are constantly driving your body to act on things that will either grow you or destroy you. It is however unfortunate that by the time you discover it, the deterioration would have gone to irreversible levels.
Your Courage Is the Answer
Dec 14th
To just about every question that clings right now – to every doubt – courage is the answer.
How can it be that we can know such definitive an answer – especially to such a broadly-positioned question? It’s actually very easy. Courage leads us to places where we find what we’re looking for.
Anger
In anger, courage looks for, and finds, patience for peace. It has the wisdom to know there’s more to this anger than meets the eye. It finds the primary emotion and wrangles successfully with its truth, installing it into the reaches of the accepted consciousness.
Striving (Greed)
In striving, courage contends for the moment holding out for results. It goes and keeps going, but in wisdom it hopes also to know the restraint of self-control. Striving is only good to a point. Beyond noble purposes striving takes us beyond the sublime into a place where we are no longer home with ourselves. Courage finds us accepting we cannot have everything we see.
Worry
In concern extending to worry, it is courage that quells the heart in reconciling faith. It somehow knows that hope lives over the horizon, on a plateau just beyond sight, that which is ever eternal. The answer to this conundrum is the answer to all conundrums – the courage to wait and see.
Decision Making
In deliberating, courage is known to speculate among the options. It reserves judgment until all is known. It steps back and canvasses the field, wanting to acknowledge all the candidates.
Envy
In jealousy, courage provides the way. It goes outside the realm of comparison and seeks refuge only in itself with God. It separates the likely winner of winners from the also-rans and goes the way hardly anyone else does. It therefore skirts the allure to envy by being set apart, morally, for God. It leaves the scene of the battle.
Humour
In gentle-paced and non-ridiculing humour, it is courage that has won the day, delivering joy to the purveyor of truth. It laughs the laugh of a victor, happy with their work and the faith to follow good guidance. Sense is vindicated and that brings joy.
Sloth
In temptation to laziness, courage forms into diligence, and that to act. It decides using the will from the mind to just go and do. Courage always has the answer where there’s work concerned. It will take command over the weakish heart and prove wise via the plain agency of its faith to undertake.
Danger
In the presence of real and present danger, courage fortifies the spirit to contend or diminish – adjudicating with wisdom the best track. Courage is not fight or flight; it’s both at the same time. It runs with flight when it discerns the fight is a folly, yet it fights a creditable fight when the causes of wisdom as they’re personally applicable are challenged.
Courage is the answer.
? 2010 S. J. Wickham.
