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Zeal without knowledge is a fire without control.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning.

The apostles turned the world upside-down because their hearts had been turned right-side up.

Don’t let the best you have ever done be the standard for the rest of your life.

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Say what you will about rock and roll, you have to admit it’s opened up a whole new field of expression for kids who can’t sing.

It isn’t what a teenager knows that worries his parents; it’s how he finds out.

One way for a girl to whip up a boy’s interest is to give him a good eye-lashing.

The best safeguard for the younger generation are the prayers of the older generation.

Don’t worry about the teenager who hates vegetables. He also used to dislike girls.

No wonder the youth are confused–many adults are telling them to find themselves and others are telling them to get lost.

When a youth starts sowing his wild oats, it’s time to start the thrashing machine.

It seldom occurs to teenagers that someday they will know as little as their parents.

Teenagers are people who demand to be different, yet they dress exactly alike.

He who controls not his youth will not enjoy his old age.

The flower of youth is most beautiful when it bends toward the Son of righteousness.

The worst thing that I can find with the younger generation is that I don’t belong to it.

To keep young, associate with young people. To get old in a hurry, try keeping up with them.

There is nothing wrong with the younger generation that the older generation didn’t outgrow.

You save an old man and you save a unit, but save a boy and you save a multiplication table.

If you want to stay youthful–stay useful.

Young people’s favorite books–Mom’s cookbook and Dad’s checkbook.

Adolescence is when boys discover girls, and girls discover they have been discovered.

Youth is not only a time of life; it’s a state of mind.

Young and old have all the answers; those in between are stuck with the questions.

Don’t spoil your teenagers; you have a right to the car at least one night a week.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

Teenagers need to learn that “No” is a complete sentence.

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Did you ever hear anyone say, “We’re not going to the lake this afternoon; Sunday is the only day we have to rest?”

Since we fight for the liberty to worship, should we not make more use of that liberty?

When we recognize Jesus’ kingship, we’ll give Him our worship.

A person may be worthy of admiration, but Christ alone is worthy of adoration.

When we submit to Jesus’ lordship, we’ll give Him our worship.

It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love Him.

The word worship is a shortened form of the old word worthship, which means showing God the worth He holds in your life.

Fellowship with a holy God will produce holy living.

Some people think Sunday is Funday.

He who lives a life of love and charity is constantly at worship.

Emotion without devotion is nothing more than commotion.

Active worship requires active involvement.

For God’s people, worship must come before work.

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God is our help in trouble; if you worry, you are on your own.

Don’t lie awake at nights worrying about how to succeed; just stay awake days.

Don’t worry about knowing people; just make yourself worth knowing.

Don’t worry what the world is coming to; be concerned what it had already come to.

Worrying doesn’t give you anything but wrinkles; something else to worry about.

The best cure for worry is to go deliberately forth and try to lift the gloom off somebody else.

Worry is fear-thought, not fore-thought. It is cured by prayer-thought.

If God attends the funeral of a sparrow, do you think He does not care for me?

When we worry, we believe more in our problems than in God’s promises.

If we fill our hours with regrets of yesterday and with worries of tomorrow, we have no today in which to be thankful.

To worry about what we cannot help is useless. To worry about what we can help is stupid.

A person who is too busy to worry in the daytime and too tired to lie awake at night need not worry about being able to grow gracefully.

Worry is useless, senseless, and worthless.

Worry doesn’t do any good, I know; most of the things I worried about didn’t happen.

What you say in hurry may cost you much worry.

Why worry when you can pray?

The letter I is always found in the middle of anxiety.

Ulcers are not caused so much by what you eat as what you allow to eat you.

Sing your troubles away–who every saw a bird worry?

The man yesterday who worried about tomorrow isn’t here today.

There is a difference between worry and concern. A worried person sees the problem; the concerned person solves the problem.

Worry pulls tomorrow’s cloud over today’s sunshine.

Why let yourself be consumed by what’s eating you?

The nice thing about a college education is that it enables us to worry about things all over the world.

Why worry about the shadows of life? Turn your face to the sun and you won’t see them.

If you want to test your memory, try to remember the things that worried you yesterday.

Worry is the advance instead you pay on troubles that seldom come.

Life lived in worry invites death in a hurry.

If a care is too small to be made into prayer, it is too small to be made into a burden.

The hardest wart to remove is the worry wart.

Worry give small things big shadows.

Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged, it cuts a channel into which all thoughts drain.

You cannot change the past, but you can ruin a perfectly good present by worrying over the future.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Worry is as useless as saving sawdust.

Worry is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.

Worry is a circle of inefficient thought whirling about a pivot of fear.

Worry comes through human interference in the divine plan.

Worry is wasting today’s time to clutter up tomorrow’s opportunities with yesterday’s troubles.

The person looking back with worry will bump into troubles ahead.

A psychiatrist is a man who doesn’t worry so long as others do.

The reason worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

You wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you knew how seldom they do.

There are two days in one’s life about which no one should worry–yesterday and tomorrow.

At night turn all your worries over to God; He’s going to be up all night anyway.

Some people waste a lot of energy climbing mountains before they are even in sight.

Prayer is an acknowledgment of faith; worry is a denial of faith.

Worrying is praying to the wrong God.

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An executive is one who never puts off until tomorrow what he can get someone else to do today.

Pray to God, but row for shore.

Housework is something you do that nobody notices unless you don’t do it.

To be effective in God’s work is quite different than to be active in God’s work.

An executive is one who hires others to do what he is hired to do.

Somehow or other, as we get older, work seems a lot less fun, and fun seems a lot more work.

Variety may be the spice of life, but it’s monotony that brings home the groceries.

The average American is a guy who was born in the country, worked hard so he could live in the city, then worked even harder to get back to the country.

The word easy appears only once in the New Testament, and then in connection with the yoke.

If a man does only what is required of him, he is a slave. If he does more than is required of him, he is a free man.

If you’re rich and have two jobs, you are diversified–if you are poor, you are moonlighting.

We never hear anything about the resolutions of the apostles, but a great deal of the Acts of the Apostles.

You may be on the right track, but if you sit there, you’ll be run over.

Stealing the initiative is the one form of theft that always pays.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn’t.

No one needs a vacation as much as the person who just had one.

It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

Maintain your motivational therapy. Add to your smarts.

The best incentive plan: Get busy, or you’re fired.

Meet the success twins–cultivation and conversation.

Work is the price of success.

Want to percolate? The circulate.

If you want to be successful, start working on the job before you have to.

We spend thousands of dollars on time-saving devices; then work overtime to pay for them.

The man with push will pass the man with pull.

Learn to labor and to wait; but be careful how you start, lest you learn to wait so well, you overlook the labor part.

Times are hard for folks hunting soft jobs.

The hen is the only one who can lay around and still be a producer.

Man invented work as an easy way to escape boredom.

What we need is not a forty-hour week but a forty-day week.

The highest reward one can get for good work is the ability to do even better work.

Labor Day is so named because it’s the only day when nobody does any.

Everything comes to those who wait, as long as those who wait work like mad while they are doing so.

It takes just as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

If the devil can find a man who is idle, he will send him to work.

It’s not the ability to kick that makes a mule such a valuable animal, but his ability to pull.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Dreaming has its values, but never should it become a substitute for work that needs to be done.

You can’t climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets.

Stop at the bottom and wake up.

We don’t need to change the work week so much as we need to change the weak work.

A person does not grow old through work–but through rusting.

Nobody ever got his mind dirty doing hard work.

The idle man does not know what it is to enjoy rest.

A laborer is ready to work when the work is ready.

Our nation became big by starting things.

Genius is seldom recognized for what it is–a great capacity for hard work.

People may not remember how fast you did your work, but they will remember how well you did it.

The world does not pay for what a person knows, but it pays for what a person does with what he knows.

Some people pray for more than they are willing to work for.

Being idle isn’t necessarily doing nothing–it’s being free to do anything.

The father of success is work; the mother of achievement is ambition.

There may be luck in getting a good job, but there is no luck in keeping it.

God put work into your life; He expects you to put life into your work.

Weeds grow themselves–flowers need cultivation.

It’s better to lose sleep on what you plan to do than to be kept awake by what you have done.

Don’t just entertain ideas–put them to work.

Before you say you cannot, give it a try.

A good worker does not make the same mistake twice.

Today’s preparation determines tomorrow’s achievement.

The more steam you put into your work, the louder you can whistle when the job is done.

Nothing ruins a neighborhood for the average husband like having an enthusiastic gardener move in.

The surest way of establishing your credit is to work so hard that you won’t need it.

Grandma said they wore exercise outfits in her day, too, but they called them housedresses.

Unless a man undertakes more than he can possibly do, he will never do all that he possibly can.

Good intentions die unless they are executed.

There are two kinds of people; those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is much less competition there.

There is something fascinating in the prospect of getting by without working, but all the joy is taken out of it by the fierce competition.

While we can’t cross a bridge until we come to it, it just might be smart to lay down a pontoon ahead of time.

We will never be challenged by seeing through our task till we recognize the challenge of seeing our task through.

You cannot clean up this old world with soft soap–it takes grit.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

The man who never does more than he gets paid for seldom gets paid for more than he does.

The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.

People don’t care about their work unless they feel appreciated.

Even back in Grandpa’s time there was something to make you sleep–they called it work.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

The world owes you a living only after you have earned it.

Two ways to get to the top of an oak tree–climb it or sit on an acorn.

You will never lost your shirt if you keep your sleeves rolled up.

A clean mouth and an honest hand will take a man through any circumstance.

Most men who get to the top quickly start by rising early.

Christians are not called to merely endure change, nor to profit by it, but to cause it.

Work isn’t work if you enjoy it.

It takes an honest man to tell whether he’s tired or just lazy.

The best medicine is to love your work and your enemies.

No race can prosper until it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as there is in writing a poem.

A true humanitarian has one simple rule at the office: If you have enought strength to call in sick, you should be at work.

Nothing would be done at all if a man waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault with him.

To gain success, do not merely stare up the steps–step up the stairs.

Rewards are usually anticlimactic–the fun is in the doing.

The best time to look for work is after you get the job.

Most of us can do more than we think we can but usually do less than we think we have.

The difference between a career and a job is about twenty or more hours per week.

Unless a job means more than money, it will seldom return more than money.

A boss is a person who is always early when you’re late and late when you’re early.

The best investment you can make in life is hard work.

Some who are not paid what they are worth ought to be glad.

Don’t itch for something you’re not willing to scratch for.

For keeping busy, the bee is praised; the mosquito is swatted–it’s a matter of give and take.

A lot of people look for employment–very few look for work.

Don’t let the fact that you can’t do it all keep you from doing what you can.

The number of people who are unemployed isn’t as great as the number who aren’t working.

If some employees were paid what they are worth, the employer might be in violation of the minimum wage law.

As a man grows wiser, he talks less and says more.

They who work hardest watch best for the Lord’s return.

You don’t have to lie awake at nights to succeed–just stay awake.

If you ever expect to have any pull, you’ll have to push for it.

Too many Americans believe it’s easier to vote for something than to work for it.

There is perfect freedom for people who do the work they want to do and live by that work.

Industry can do anything that a genius can do and many things that it cannot.

The best way to keep from being unemployed is to work at it.

People rarely succeed at anything unless they have fun doing it.

If you make your job important, it’s quite likely to return that favor.

If you do not make more of your job than the average man, then the average man can hold your job.

He that teaches not his son to do some trade makes him a thief.

He who cannot speak well of his trade does not understand it.

Footprints in the sands of time can never be made by sitting down.

The cards you hold in the game of life have little meaning if they are never played.

If you want a place in the sun, you must expect some blisters.

If at first you don’t succeed, try a little harder.

Sign on a private detective’s office: We pry harder.

The best oil you can use in life is elbow grease.

Be quick to work and slow to talk.

No man can be a workman for God until he is a workmanship of God.

To do nothing is tiresome; one can never stop and take a rest.

The price of mastery in any field is thorough preparation.

The key to willpower is want-power. Those wanting something badly enough will find the willpower to do it.

It is not enough to put your shoulder to the wheel–you must remember to push.

Work, wait, win. Start at the bottom and there is one way to work–up.

Work smarter instead of longer.

Ideas are funny things; they do not work unless we do.

The best way to erase bad conditions is to use the hard work eraser.

Sitting and wishing will not change your course. What good is a wagon without a horse?

We don’t need to change the work week–we need to get the weak to work.

Nobody ever drowned in sweat.

The wishbone will never take the place of the backbone.

The reward of doing a good job is more work.

Dodging work is the hardest work of all and yields the poorest returns.

The best way to move mountains is to begin with molehills and work your way up.

A generation ago most men finished a day’s work and needed a rest–now they need exercise.

Most people who wake up famous haven’t been asleep.

Remember the clock: it passes the time by keeping its hands busy.

Good ideas are perishable–if you don’t use them they won’t keep.

Starting on the right road and facing the right direction pays few dividends unless you keep moving.

Most jobs are carried out best by committees of one.

The only people who are criticized are the people who do something.

Everything worthwhile is upgrade.

The time God allows us is just enough for the work He allots us.

Some people work themselves to death by labor-saving devices.

A man is not paid for having hands and head but for using them.

To some people, the ideal occupation is one that doesn’t keep them occupied.

A press agent is a man who hitches his braggin’ to a star.

The best kind of pride is that which compels a man to do his best work even though no one is looking.

The mosquito never waits for an opening–he makes one.

Work is not meant to be a penalty for living.

Let not your motto be “get by” but “get on.”

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have it.

The mosquito doesn’t get slapped on the back until he starts to work.

Sign in unemployment office: Don’t underestimate yourself–let us do it for you.

Pray for a good crop, but don’t forget to hoe.

A job well done is a job well planned.

It doesn’t matter whose payroll you are on; you work for yourself.

If you don’t put a shoulder to the wheel, you may find your back to the wall.

Instead of giving yourself a pat on the back, try giving yourself a shove.

There is only one man better than the man who gets behind and pushes, and that is the man who stays ahead and pulls.

If you worked for your employer as you serve God, how long would you hold your job?

All that stands between you and the top of the ladder is the ladder.

Have your tools ready–God will find work for you.

Rule for success: work your tongue little, your hands much, and your brain much.

Inspiration is presentation–a job well done is well planned.

The man who just watches the clock will always remain one of the hands.

Your work is an excellent commentary on your character.

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Sign in veterinarian’s office: Doctor will be with you shortly. Sit! Stay!

Sign in music shop: Gone Chopin. Bach in a Minuet.

Energy crisis: when you can’t fuel all the people all the time.

Our language is funny–a fat chance and a slim chance mean the same thing.

Some things not worth saying are now put into songs.

An argument is two people trying to get in the last word.

I don’t mind freedom of speech in the nation, providing we don’t have to listen to it.

The strongest words are usually used in the weakest arguments.

Those who say the least often say the most.

A good word is as easily said as a bad one.

Talk about others the same way you want others to talk about you.

If you have nothing to say, say it.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

Those who have the most to say usually say it with fewest words.

A great anecdote is worth a volume of biography.

Too often a word to the wise is just enough to start an argument.

As a man grows wiser, he talks less and says more.

A major part of self-control is mouth-control.

It’s easier to save face if you keep the lower half shut.

Sparkling conversation is made by filling the mouth with gems of thought.

Evil talk is the devil’s halitosis–keep silent and it will die a natural breath.

Kind words do not wear out the tongue.

Our words may hide our thoughts, but our actions will reveal them.

It would be better to leave people wondering why you didn’t talk than why you did.

If your foot slips, you may recover your balance, but if your tongue slips, you cannot recall your words.

Some people know how to say nothing, but few know when.

Don’t speak unless you can improve on silence.

The speech most winning has its end close to the beginning.

It isn’t so much what we say as the number of times we say it that makes us boring.

Courage is sometimes mistaken for fear that remained silent.

It’s a great pity the right of free speech isn’t based on the obligation to say something sensible.

Strange, but it appears those with the biggest mouths always have the least to say.

God does more than hear words: He reads hearts.

If it goes without saying, do not insist on repeating it.

Most entanglements are caused by vocal cords.

When at a loss for the right word to say, try silence.

God’s Word tells us of His love; our words should tell Him of our love.

It is wiser to choose what you say than to say what you choose.

Silence is the best and surest way to hide ignorance.

One way to store up knowledge is to keep your mouth shut.

Have you noticed that people who are not smart say things that do?

Every time you speak, your mind is on parade.

Well-timed silence has more eloquence than speech.

What many speakers lack in depth, they give in length.

You can never exercise an open mind and an open mouth at the same time.

It’s difficult to put your foot in your mouth when it is closed.

When you have nothing to say, never say it out loud.

There is no substitute for brains–but silence sometimes help.

The best evidence that one has a fine command of language is his ability to keep his mouth closed.

The popular speaker is one who knows all the advantages of stopping sooner than his audience expects him to.

All minds face a world full of ideas, but only a great mind knows how to relate them constructively.

Holding a conversation is good, but sometimes you should let go of it.

Many a man who is proud of his right to say what he pleases wishes he had the courage to do so.

You cannot judge an auto by the sound of the horn–nor a man.

When you cannot get people to listen any other way, tell them it is confidential.

A person who constantly puts his foot in his mouth finally throws his whole body out of balance.

The words we say will teach if we practice what we preach.

Some measure their generosity by the abundance of advice they give.

The words you speak today were yesterday’s thoughts.

Blessed is the man who abstains from giving windy evidence of the fact that he has nothing to say.

Talk is cheap because the supply has always exceeded the demand.

People will pay more attention to what you say if you pay more attention to what they say.

If you are a person of few words, you won’t have as many to take back.

A person is not necessarily smart because he says smart things.

When someone doesn’t speak to you, he’s trying to tell you something.

It is more important to get the thoughts than the last word.

Keep your words sweet–you may have to eat them.

Waste of words and time are two of the greatest expenses of life.

The kindly word that falls today may bear its fruit tomorrow.

The most acute indigestion is sometimes caused by the words we’ve eaten.

Better that your heart should have no words than your words have no heart.

Apology is often the best way to have the last word.

Spend not your money before it be got; speak not your mind before you have thought.

America needs more free speech that is worth something.

If you think little of a person, you ought to say as little as you think.

Kind words are short to speak, but their echoes are endless.

A lot of trouble in this world arises from the combination of a narrow mind and a wide mouth.

Great talkers are usually little doers.

Language has three important uses–it expresses thought, conceals thought, and takes the place of thought.

The fact that silence is golden may explain why there is so little of it.

Evil words cut more deeply than a sword.

Knowing what to say is not enough; we must know how to say it.

Words break no bones, but they do break hearts.

Gentle words fall lightly, but they have great weight.

Speech is silver, but silence is golden.

There are two types who say very little: the quiet type and the gabby type.

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Women prefer husbands with a will of their own, provided it’s made out in the wife’s name.

The best thing for a cold shoulder is a mink.

Just why is it that you convince a man, but must persuade a woman?

Most women don’t mind Yule shopping–they charge right ahead.

The best years of a woman’s life are between twenty-eight and twenty-nine.

Some women work at changing a man, and when they have changed him, they don’t like him.

The best cookbooks are no substitute for good cooks.

A young beautiful woman is the act of nature–a beautiful old lady is the work of art.

A good secretary is a woman that usually does the work that some man gets credit for.

The best man for the job–a woman!

A woman’s age is like the odometer on a used car–you know it’s been set back, but you don’t know how far.

It takes a smart woman to decide if a man is too old to be considered eligible, or too eligible to be considered old.

When a woman lowers her voice, it’s a sign she wants something. When she raises it, it’s a sign she didn’t get it.

The difference between a soldier and a woman is that one faces the powder–the other powders her face.

No wonder women live longer than men. Look how long they are girls.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

Women without principle draw considerable interest.

A large woman stood in church and sang, “Love Lifted Me.” A skinny man stood next to her and sang, “It Took a Miracle.”

Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.

A woman’s beauty lasts only as long as her disposition stays sweet.

American women are the best yessed women anywhere.

Women’s lib: Too many plots and plans and not enough pots and pans.

The modern kitchen can never replace the old-fashioned cook.

The European wife is a servant; the American wife works her husband to death, and then takes a cruise on the insurance.

The smart girl who searches too long for a smart cookie is apt to wind up with a crumb.

An intelligent girl is one who knows who to refuse a kiss without being deprived of it.

Cosmetics are a woman’s way of keeping a man from reading between the lines.

Too many women think they are improving on Mother Nature when they’re fooling Father Time.

The proportion of females arrested for burglary is on the rise. First equal rights, then equal wrongs.

Most men believe that a woman’s place is in the home; they expect to find her there immediately after she gets off work.

The upkeep of women is the downfall of man.

Kissing a girl is like opening a bottle of olives–if you get one, the rest comes easy.

The idealist puts a woman on a pedestal–and the practical man comes right along with a ladder.

They say that every man needs two women–a secretary to take everything down and a wife to pick everything up.

The better a woman looks, the longer the man does.

The average women would rather dye than have gray hair.

We speak about the equality of the sexes, but whoever saw a retired housewife?

Many a woman who goes on a diet finds that she is a poor loser.

Some men marry poor girls to settle down, and others marry rich ones to settle up.

A girl strings along a guy only to see if he’s fit to be tied.

Many a woman has started out playing with fire and has ended up cooking over it.

Most women know the value of love–only men the cost.

A beautiful woman is the one you notice. A charming woman is the one who notices you.

Some women make a fool out of a man–but many a godly woman has made a man out of a fool.

Women live longer than men because they need the time to finish all they started to say.

About the only time a woman really succeeds in changing a male is when he’s a baby.

A man is judged by the company he keeps–a woman by how late she keeps company.

It’s better to be an old maid than to wish you were one.

Strange but true–you never heard an Englishman telling a woman, “You look like a million pounds!”

Men say women can’t be trusted too far–women say men can’t be trusted too near.

Diamonds don’t grow on trees, but you will find them on certain limbs.

Women’s lib, someone said, “It’s Adam’s rib and Satan’s fib.”

Spring is the time of the year when women pay clothes attention to each other.

Women’s fashions may change each year but their designs remain the same.

The girl who has many men on the string will soon get into a tangle.

A modern girl: screams at the sight of a mouse, but climbs into a car with a wolf.

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There’s enough Bread of Life to supply the whole world, but are there enough volunteers to distribute it?

It’s easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one’s neighbor.

Personal soul winners get more results with tears in their eyes than arguments on their lips.

The gospel is not something we go to church to hear; it is something we go from the church to tell.

When Christians live the gospel, sinners will listen to the gospel.

Let’s reach out to a world in need with the Word it needs.

It is good to be a Christian and know it–it’s better to be a Christian and show it.

To really enjoy religion, one must first have it, then use it.

The only way to “preach the gospel to every creature” is to go to every creature.

Too many times we care more for a person’s feelings than we do for his soul.

Do I value those for whom Christ died–do I also value those in whom Christ lives?

A passion for Jesus soon becomes a passion for telling others about Jesus.

We who know the need must be willing to sow the seed.

Hospitality is evangelism’s greatest tool.

Christ never told His disciples to stay at home and wait for sinners to come to them.

The secret of evangelism is allowing the love of Christ to overflow in every word, every action, and every thought.

The church must go into the world because the world won’t come into the church.

Your mission field is the next unsaved person you meet.

In witnessing, behaving the gospel must go hand-in-hand with believing it.

Something is fishy if we aren’t fishing for men.

The rewards of witnessing are well worth the risks.

Those on the road to heaven will not be content to go there alone.

Two things should happen to the Christian–something happens in us and something happens through us.

No tears for the lost will mean no rainbows for the soul.

Don’t expect God to use you as a lighthouse somewhere if God cannot use you as a candle where you are.

You cannot witness to the wrong person about Christ.

Keep your light shining–God will place it where it will do the most good.

God hasn’t made many of us lawyers, but He has done something for all us Christians. He has subpoenaed all of us as witnesses.

Souls costs soles.

We must have Christ revealed to us if we are to reveal Him to others.

Talk to the Lord about sinners, then talk to sinners about the Lord.

If, like the shepherds, you have heard and seen, then, like the shepherds, go and tell.

There isn’t enough darkness in all the world to put out a single candle.

A church is no stronger than its fellowship and no bigger than its visitation.

If you are on the rocks, don’t despair; be a lighthouse.

Before going to the moon, how about visiting your neighbor next door?

Every Christian occupies some kind of a pulpit and preaches some kind of a sermon every day.

The best bell to call people to church is a good example.

You are the salt of the earth, but remember, the earth needs some sugar, too.

Some very effective sermons are delivered when one man is the preacher and one man is the congregation.

We are ringing church bells instead of ringing doorbells.

Anyone can go door-to-door, but only you can witness where God has placed you.

Do you have a burden for the lost, or have you lost the burden?

If every Christian visited like you do, would anyone ever know your church is concerned about them?

Christianity is like chicken pox–if you have it, you will give it to others.

Remember, to be a witness means to live in such a way that one’s life would not make sense if God did not exist.

Trim your lamp more often so that it will give more light and less smoke.

The pastor’s job is to fill the pulpit–the member’s job is to fill the church.

The tact needed for evangelism is contact.

We will either give the gospel out or we will give the gospel up.

The only way to get others to God is first to get to Him yourself.

A soul winner is one who never gets used to the sound of marching feet on the way to a lost eternity.

A living Christ in a living man is a living sermon.

Everybody wants a harvest, but few want to plow.

All people cannot witness the same way, but all people can witness some way.

He who lives like Christ wins men to Christ.

There are some who will never know Christ unless you introduce Him to them.

A Christian is a living sermon whether or not he preaches a word.

A saint is like a window–he lets the light shine through.

You can never win to Christ a soul that you do not love.

If you refuse to serve the Lord, He may one day refuse to let you.

Lighthouses don’t make noises–they just shine.

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Wisdom comes more from living than from studying.

Specialization is the art of learning more and more about less and less.

Keep God’s truth in your head and his love in your heart.

Advice is like snow–the softer it falls, the deeper it goes.

Discretion too often marks the end of discovery.

Thinking well is wise, planning well is wiser, but doing well is wisest.

A right attitude toward others will help keep God’s truth in our head and His love in our heart.

Some folks may live and learn, but by the time they’ve learned it’s usually too late to live.

A stiff neck usually supports an empty head.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

A person is not necessarily smart just because he says things that are smart.

It is surprising how many know how to make a good living, yet do not know how to live good.

Learning is the preface of doing, and if it is done well, it results in wisdom.

Don’t forget in the darkness what you learned in the light.

Why can’t life’s problems hit us when we’re eighteen and know everything?

If we should lock up all the feeble-minded, who would write all our hit songs?

The good lawyer knows the law–the clever one knows the judge.

The best night spot is a comfortable bed.

If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there’s no sense in making them.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.

Buy cheap merchandise to save money is like stopping a clock to save time.

It is a wise man who knows that he isn’t.

People with good horse sense know when to say nay.

Wisdom consists of passing up nonessentials.

A wise man always prepares for the inevitable.

A diplomat is anyone who thinks before saying nothing.

A word to the wise isn’t as good as a word from the wise.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

Do not ask for perfection in all you do but for the wisdom not to repeat mistakes.

Wisdom? Knowing as much as thirty-six as you thought you knew at eighteen.

The middle of the road may not be the most exciting place to be, but at least you will be farther from the ditch–on either side.

Biting off more than you can chew is the way to cut some wisdom teeth.

An expert knows all the right answers if you ask him all the right questions.

Common sense is instinct; enough of it is genius.

Right reason is stronger than force.

A wise man knows more than he tells, but a fool often tells more than he knows.

A born diplomat is someone who remembers your birthday but forgets how many.

Knowledge comes by taking things apart; wisdom comes by putting them together.

The door of wisdom swings on the hinges of common sense and uncommon ignorance.

Being brilliant is not making a simple subject complicated; it is making the complicated subject simple.

True wisdom starts with a heart full of faith, not a head full of facts.

Luck is nothing but good planning properly executed.

Some people are wise–some are otherwise.

Muhammad said, “Trust Allah but tie your camels.”

Wisdom is the ability to discover the alternatives.

Fools fight one another, but wise men agree together.

The peoples of the world wouldn’t have to resort to arms if they’d use their heads.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

A clever person is one who put his problems away for a brainy day.

Learn from the nail–its head keeps it from going too far.

Good judgment comes from experience–experience comes from bad judgment.

This is judgment day–use plenty of it.

It is unfortunate to have more dollars than sense.

Great ability without discretion usually comes to a tragic end.

There is just as much horse sense as ever, but it seems like the horses have it.

A wise man thinks all he says; a fool says all he thinks.

An efficiency expert is one who is smart enough to tell you how to run your business and too smart to start one of his own.

There are few things more difficult than the art of making advice agreeable.

Many things can give me wisdom, but only love can make me wise.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

The beginning of wisdom is silence–the second is listening.

It is wise to act wise unless you are otherwise.

Diplomacy is the art of telling your friends they have “open minds” instead of “holes in their heads.”

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things provided by each day as it goes by.

Wisdom is knowing what to do; skill is knowing how to do it; virtue is doing it well.

True wisdom is the accurate perception of what is really important.

A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

Wisdom is the ability to discover alternatives.

A good deal of trouble has been caused in the world by too much intelligence and too little wisdom.

It’s what we learn after we know it all that really counts.

Common sense is seeing things as they are and doing things as they should be done.

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

You don’t have to be listed in Who’s Who to know what’s what.

Two things to avoid–knowledge on ice and ignorance on fire.

A man doesn’t begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is not indispensible.

A wise man will desire no more than he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.

Learning is the preface of doing, and if it is done well, it results in wisdom.

A wise man is one who is never afraid to ask the shopkeeper to show him something cheaper.

Horse sense behind the steering wheel is more important than horsepower under the hood.

Wisdom is divided into two parts–having a great deal to say and not saying it.

Wisdom is only an uncommon amount of common sense.

A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.

It’s a shame that nature did not provide everyone with two additional senses–horse and common.

You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him or to him.

The simpler solution may not be the right one, but it’s usually the one to consider first.

Our judgment can be no better than our information.

Disillusionment is the first step toward wisdom.

What a fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.

The fellow with horse sense doesn’t trot with the crowd.

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