Advice for the New Year
Live so that you wouldn't be ashamed to sell the family parrot to the town gossip.
If I stop to think BEFORE I speak,
I won't have to worry afterward about what I said before.
When the Bible speaks, discussion is useless;
When the Bible is silent, discussion ends.
Change the contents of your heart and you will alter the droppings of your mouth.
Do unto others as though you were the others.
GIFTS TO GIVE
-To your enemy, forgiveness
-To an opponent, fairness
-To a friend, honesty
-To a customer, service
-To the depressed, comfort
-To the aged, honor
-To the needy, a helping hand
-To all men, charity
-To every child, a good example
-To your spouse, love
-To yourself, respect
-To God, your life
Always drive so that your license will expire before you do.
The only way to settle a disagreement is on the basis of what's right--not who's right.
It is never the right time to do the wrong thing.
A soft answer can break a hard heart.
Yesterday is a cancelled check.
Tomorrow is a promissory note.
Today is the only cash you have...spend it wisely.
Learn from the mistakes of others--you cannot possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
Jumping to conclusions is not near as good exercise as digging for facts.
Some people have plenty of jawbone but not enough backbone.
The dictionary is the only place where you can find SUCCESS before WORK.
You can either be a member of the wrecking crew or the construction team.
He who has the most trouble usually has been busy making it.
Either the Bible will keep you from sin or sin will keep you from the Bible.
When the Word of God is as sweet as honey, the vanities of the world are as bitter as aloes.
There's so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behooves any of us
To condemn the rest of us!
If you were someone else, would you like to be a friend to yourself?
Your character is what God knows you to be.
Your reputation is what men think you are.
What you laugh at tells plainer than words what you are.
Holiness is not the way to Christ, Christ is the way to holiness.
You don't value Christ at all unless you value Him above all.
To return evil for good is DEVILISH.
To return good for good is HUMAN.
To return good for evil is GOD-LIKE.
He who is born of God should grow to resemble his Father.
Christians are not sinless, but they should sin less.
It costs nothing to become a Christian, but it costs everything to remain one.
Real Christians are forgiven, forgiving, and all for giving.
You can't spell GOSPEL with GO.
Christians are like tea: their strength is not drawn out until they are in hot water.
Ask yourself, "What kind of church would this be if everyone was just like me?"
What the church needs is less BLOCK and more TACKLE.
The world doesn't need a definition of Christianity as much as it needs a demonstration.
If you don't live it, you don't believe it.
The person pulling the oars usually don't have time to rock the boat.
The person who stays out of church because there are too many hypocrites in it is doing the right thing: one more wouldn't help the situation.
When men speak evil of you, live so that no one will believe them.
You don't have to explain something you haven't said.
A sound argument must have more than sound to it.
God's hand will not lead you where God's grace cannot keep you.
If the Lord intended for us to live in a permissive society, the Ten Commandments would have been the Ten Suggestions.
When looking for faults, use a mirror not a telescope.
Nothing is easier than fault-finding: it takes no talent, no self-respect, no brains, and no character.
Nobody raises his own reputation by lowering others.
Sin is better corrected in the high chair than in the electric chair.
God's part we cannot do; our part He will not do.
When a wise man argues with a woman, he says nothing.
A wise old owl live in an oak,
The more he saw, the less he spoke;
The less he spoke, the more he heard.
Why can't we be like that old bird?
Written by David F. Sims, doing my part to "turn the world upside down" (Acts 17:6)
All quotes taken from the New American Standard Bible, unless otherwise stated.
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