37 Quotes of Wisdom (2019 Collection)
Below are 37 quotes and sayings I’ve handpicked to share with you from all those I’ve gathered in recent years, and I thought it’s nice to list out my collection as a review of the year 2019. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do!
Here to wish you a great 2020!
‘Opposite of uncertainty is not certainty, but faith and trust.’ - Pastor Albert
‘Delay is not deny, if we believe in the devine design of God.’ - Pastor Albert.
‘Once you awaken, you will have no interest in judging those who sleep.’ - James Blanchard Cisneros
‘Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.’
‘It's not what we do but how much we put into it.’ - Mother Teresa
‘If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.’
‘The will of God never takes you where the grace of God will not protect you.’
‘But man does not create… he discovers.’ - Gaudi
‘Humility isn't a weakness, its a source of status and a sign of strength.’ - Worklife Podcast
As Adam Grant says, “being original is not easy, but I have no doubt about this: it’s the best way to improve the world around us.”
‘Deepest longing of humans is to be known and to be loved.’ - Pastor Brett
‘If you can't explain it simply, then you dont understand it enough.’ - Einstein
‘Punishment creates a person who works for love; discipline creates a person who works from love, of love one’s received.’ - Pastor Eric Farmer
‘Don't fight control with control.’ - Pastor Brett
‘All that is not eternal is eternally out of date.’ - C.S. Lewis
Reality is often made up of what we cannot see. But we often make things up with things we can see.
‘Science without faith and wisdom is lost. Wisdom without knowledge is nothing.’ - Martin Radford
‘The principle runs through all life from top to bottom: Give up yourself and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favorite wishes every day, and death of your whole body in the end. Submit with every fiber of your being and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find him, and with him everything else thrown in.’ - C.S. Lewis
Hope: believing something good can come out of something bad.
Judge not. Fear not. Worry not. Doubt not.
‘Perhaps even more fascinating than Kusama’s art is her philosophy of “self-obliteration” — her idea that self-destruction is the only way to find peace. She manifests this philosophy through art creations that also showcase her obsession with polka-dots, which intertwines with her belief that everything in the universe is made of dots.’
‘What’s always been so cool about science fiction writers is that they can take all our fears, intentions, and hopes, and dreams, and kind of pitch them forward into the imagination.’ - Yuknavitch
‘They can forget what you drew, but they will never forget how your art made them feel.’
σπεῦδε βραδέως - “Festina Lente” (More haste, less speed)
"Hâtez-vous lentement, et sans perdre courage,
Vingt fois sur le métier remettez votre ouvrage,
Polissez-le sans cesse, et le repolissez,
Ajoutez quelquefois, et souvent effacez.”
(Slowly make haste, of labor not afraid;
A hundred times consider what you've said;
Polish, repolish, every color lay,
And sometimes add, but oftener take away.)
‘There is a human tendency to prejudge. I want photographs to speak for themselves, and I want people to view the pictures in a way they want to, without knowing the artist's identity and life. It gives a broader frame of reference, perhaps makes them timeless, and less specific. For me, it's more valuable to have them seen in their own way, than to be told how you should be reading, or interpreting a photograph, an image, or a moment in time.' - BBC tomorrow’s world, is social media killing creativity?
R.C. Sproul: Men are never duly touched and impressed with a conviction of their insignificance, until they have contrasted themselves with the majesty of God.
‘Context and connection gives meaning, or why a certain thing exist.’ — Pastor Brett
‘Science can describe (a happening, a fact, stats), but the wisdom of God prescribes(how it make happen)’ - Pastor Brett
‘Usually the first instinct feeling you felt about something wouldn't be the feeling you feel 10 years later about the same thing. Coz usually we discover more, and then we learn something we didn't know. Because humans are flawed.’
‘No one can tell you what you're worth. If you think you have what it takes, and truly believe you do, you HAVE what it takes. Coz only then you will work your way there, you will use your mind, your given gifts to get to where you want. And if you are persistent, you WILL get there.’
‘Do not let guilt overtake the affection to serve God.’
‘Misery, when shared is lighter.’ - Pastor Brett (realising someone has similar experience with you and know that you are not the only one)
‘The crowds are easily persuaded, circumstantially influenced. The way of the crowd is the default direction of the human race.’
‘Pray-ers are laborers and laborers are pray-ers.’ - Luke 10
Personal idol tendency: Approval, power, control, comfort.
‘We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.’ - Crazy Love Book
A.W. Tozer: A man by his sun may waste himself, which is to waste that which on earth is most like God. This is man’s greatest tragedy and God’s heaviest grief.
Note: Some quotes are not told their origin, because those are quite generic, or I’ve heard it somewhere and forgot who said it or where I read it, and some of them are from my humble observations.