Influential Sayings

a bakers dozen (13)

Job said, “How forcible are right words.”

What we say can influence a life and how they live it. The following are some words of wisdom I’ve picked up from others as I have traveled life’s pathway. Anything of Spiritual worth in my life, these brief adages helped mold. Many were said at crisis times in my life and were turning points for me.

Dr. Bob Jones Sr. - “You can do what you ought to do.”

P.A. Sandlin – “You can’t run from your humanity.”

Joe Henry Hankins - “Sonny boy, preach to their heart. When you get the head you have only half a person. But when you get the heart you have the whole man.

D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones – “When everything becomes dim, come back to your foundation. What you know for sure.

Peter S. Ruckman – “Stay in the Book.” (Said at my conversion 65 years ago; referring to K.J.V. 1611)

Oswald Chambers – “Some time you must go on like there is no God.”

In an old used book – “When is the best time to plant a fruit tree? Twenty years ago! But the second best time is—Right now!

J.I. Packer – Referring to himself living before God he said, “I’ve learned to live without pretending either to be what I am not or not to be what I am.

Old Time preacher- Pray as you can, and don’t try to pray as you can’t.

My Mother – When I asked her why she scrubbed floors for a living. “Son, someone has to do it.

My Dad- When, as a boy, asked for a new baseball glove in exchange for old worn-out one. “Son, it’s not the glove, but the hand that’s in it.”

My late Wife – When I asked if she liked herself. “Yes, she replied; after all, I’m all I’ve got.”

C.S. Lewis – What I have learned as a writer from him, Brevity is best. (And so I end this)

by an Aged Saint

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