Quotes, Maxims & Aphorisms
| The natural man tells us how to react; |
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| The spirit within tells us how to respond |
| The Holy Ghost, on a level above our personality |
| Tells our spirit how to grow and progress — |
| How to reach beyond what we are able to do by our own resources. |
| — Bruce D. Despain |
| Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now. | |
| What should not be heard by little ears should not be said by big mouths. | |
| He does not believe who does not live according to his belief. | |
| He who has a “why” to live for can bear with almost any “how.” | |
| A wounded oyster mends his shell with a pearl. | |
| A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can do without. | |
| If thou wilt make a man happy, add not to his riches, but take away from his desires. | |
| We must do more than ask the Lord for excellence. | |
| Despiration must preceed inspiration. |
| There must be effort before there is excellence. |
| Prayer is the passport to spiritual wealth. | |
| A man with God is always in the majority. | |
| Physical strength is measured by what one can carry; spiritual, by what one can bear. | |
| You can’t store spirituality. It’s like manna: it has to be gathered daily and the only way is through prayer. | |
| It is not the dying for a faith that is so hard; it is the living up to it that is difficult. | |
| We judge ourselves by what we are capable of; while others judge us by what we have already done. | |
| There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks. | |
| By losing the present time we lose all time. | |
| Improve your time and your time will improve you. | |
| Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather that it shall never have a beginning. | |
| It is useless to desire more time if you have already wasted what little you have. | |
| The shortest way to do anything is to do only one thing at a time. | |
| The great man is the man who does a thing for the first time. | |
| Life begins when we begin. | |
| You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do. | |
| We only get credit for what we finish, not what we start. | |
| The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment. | |
| Well arranged time is the surest mark of a well arranged mind. | |
| What may be done at any time will be done at no time. | |
| When you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail. | |
| A goal unwritten is only a wish. | |
| We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. | |
| My crown is in my heart, not on my head, not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen; my crown is called content. | |
| One’s outlook is a large part of his virtue. | |
| We see things not as they are but as we are. | |
| The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness. | |
| Conceit is the weirdest disease in the world; it makes everyone sick except the one that has it. | |
| Do not write cheques with your tongue which your conduct cannot cash. | |
| Discouragement is like a baby: the more you nurse it, the bigger it grows. | |
[in another person’s hand, on the back of a missionary status sheet used in the WA Perth Mission for “certification”]
| Courage to overcome life’s daily challenges is in its own way as heroic as overcoming fear in the field of battle.
When our faith in God is strong, we find within us the ability to overcome any challenge which life may bring us. | |
