Quotes that Say Something
Quotes that Say Something
By Rev. Harry Stackhouse
1. Don’t try to be right in a dispute; be righteous.
2. Forgiveness is the center to good relationships. Put on the raincoat of forgiveness before you are offended; wear it like a cloak.
3. If you’re afraid to speak about something that you are sure about because of the response of someone else, you are in emotional bondage.
4. 90 percent of what we hear and see is not to be repeated or talked about, but prayed about.
5. Knowledge is a dangerous thing in the hand of a “know it all”.
6. Remember the beginning of personal success in life is whenever you begin.
7. I’m afraid that we generate too much heat in a dispute and too little light.
8. Live your life for others and you will never be without purpose.
9. Everyone is talking about peace but only a few people pursue it.
10.Peace can cost you your life. Are you sure you want it?
11.Be light.
12.Live your life for others and you will never be without purpose.
13.There is hidden capital in informing, inspiring, and influencing a younger generation.
14.Benjamin Franklin wrote, “What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essentials. Choose a career you love…Give it the best there is in you…Seize your opportunities…And be a member of the team.”
15. There is a “peace” that surpasses all understanding and that’s found in Christ. When one is looking for peace, one is not interested in understanding how one got peace only that they received peace.
16.Peace is a place--not a thing, nor a state. It is the place where the heart goes before the mind.
17.Stay in your lane. It’s yours, you own it.
18. It takes courage to be free.
19.The fear of being right is sometimes greater than the fear of being wrong.
20.Goethe once said, “One must be something to be able to do something.” I disagree. God takes a nobody and does wonders with it.
21. Doing something is not as important as being something.
22. Character is who we are when nobody is around.
23.Martin Luther King Jr. said that he was … “looking for the day where man might be judge by the content of their character not the color of their skin.”
24.Judgment of others is the fool’s way of saying I’m better.
25. Forgiving is not forgetting, it is refocusing on future possibilities of happiness.
26.Strife can be avoided by just one word, “Yes”.
27.Guarding one’s lips is a full time job. That is why so many cannot get outside employment.
28.Always seek to be led by the Spirit and driven by compassion.
29.Compassion without action is merely sympathy.
30.The place of agreement is where the Holy Spirit does His best work.
31.Remember at the end of every conversation is a soul.
32.Ask yourself three times “why” and take time to answer your question before you respond in a negative way.
33.It has been said, “fear is the darkroom where negatives are developed”.
34.Courage is being the only one who knows you are afraid.
35.The only thing we have to fear is not doing something about the fear we have. God did not give us the spirit of fear but of love, power and a sound mind.
36.A stiff neck usually supports an empty head; be flexible and equipped for change.
37.The only things that are constant are change and God.
38.Keep your mind hungry for more of God. Only hungry minds become educated.
39.The purpose of judging someone else is to elevate yourself at their expense.
40.A little secret for great relationships: purpose to do more for the other person than that person does for you.
41.A happy home is the place where the only scraps are those brushed from the table.
42.Looking at the clothes in my closet and my attic I must be 6 persons in one body. Nobody have needs that much. Jesus said, “clothe” the naked.
43.If a person is not helping you to grow he is causing you to die.
44.There is a great difference between “life” and “living”. Life is the breath that is in your body where all of the organs are functioning, but living is how we use the life given us to make living for others greater.