Collected Pearls Of Wisdom

• You can't believe everything you think.
• What a person believes has no effect on the truth.
• You can not stay where you are and go with God.
• He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. Jim Elliot.
• Relationships are more important than rules.
• Christians have superficial sorrow and central joy; others have superficial joy and central sorrow. David Jeremiah.
• Lord, we are change in your pocket. Spend us any way you want to.
• When love goes up, that is worship; when love goes out, that is compassion; when love comes down, that is grace.
• Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. Wittgenstein.
• Idolatry: worshipping what ought to be used, or using what ought to be worshipped.
• I Timothy 4:7b Discipline yourself for the purpose of godliness;
• Hebrews 12:14 Pursue peace with all men, and holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
• I Timothy 6:11b Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, perseverance {and} gentleness.
• II Corinthians 2:8 Wherefore I urge you to reaffirm {your} love for him.
• Matthew 7:21 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven; but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven.
• Train yourself to godliness.
• Don't be easily predictable.
• Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. (Romans 12:21)
• Don't yell.
• Faith is not based on what you don't know; faith is based on whom you do know, and your personal relationship with Him.
• Lord, intensify your distinctiveness in me; increase the risk so my faith will grow; and enlarge the difference I make.
• I accept you as you are; I believe you are valuable; I care when you hurt; I desire God's best for you; I erase all offences. (ABCDE)
• Your number one ministry is to your family.
• Pursue mental purity.
• Forgive..
• Be P/S/C (participative/supportive/coach) not O/C/J (observer/critic/judge).
• Seize the day. Carpe deum.
• What would Jesus do in this situation?
• Every interaction in marriage should be based on compassion.
• Divorce danger signs: contempt, criticism, defensiveness, withdrawal.
• Render to all what is due them ... honor to whom honor.
• Make "I" statements rather than "you" statements.
• Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.
• Go 100 percent not just 50. Think 'We us our' rather than 'I me my'.
• Romans 12:3 ... I say to every man among you not to think more highly of himself than he ought to think ...
• I Peter 3:8-9 ... let all be harmonious, sympathetic, brotherly, kindhearted, and humble in spirit; not returning evil for evil, or insult for insult ...
• Proverbs 15:1 A gentle answer turns away wrath, But a harsh word stirs up anger.
• The probability of getting cancer of colon, breast, or prostate is proportional to the amount of fat consumed.
• Proverbs 16:7 When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, He makes even his enemies to be at peace with him.
• Romans 12:18 If possible, so far as it depends on you, be at peace with everyone.
• Keep the past in the past. Don't revisit issues that have been settled.
• Don't judge the intentions of the heart. Judge objective behavior.
• Make overt the covert.
• Keep accounts settled. Don't carry issues waiting for the next fight.
• What did I do to make it worse? How could I have made it better?
• What is the Lord trying to teach me?
• Clean up your own act.
• Give the benefit of the doubt.
• Give compliments for criticisms.
• Believe the best.
• Deflate the caricature.
• Philippians 2:3 Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind let each of you regard one another as more important than himself;
• Philippians 2:4 do not merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interests of others.
• Luke 6:31 "And just as you want people to treat you, treat them in the same way.
• Examine your attitudes and motives.
• Guard your heart against demandingness and self-protective sin.
• Don't criticize, complain or condemn.
• Have a servant's heart.
• Colossians 3:19 Husbands, love your wives, and do not be embittered against them.
• I Peter 3:7 You husbands likewise, live with your wives in an understanding way, as with a weaker vessel, since she is a woman; and grant her honor as a fellow heir of the grace of life, so that your prayers may not be hindered.
• Ephesians 4:15 but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him, who is the head, even Christ,
• Ephesians 4:24 and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
• Ephesians 4:29 Let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such a word as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear.
• Ephesians 4:31f Let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you, along with all malice. And be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.
• Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself up for her;
• Ephesians 5:28 So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies. He who loves his own wife loves himself;
• Ephesians 6:4 And, fathers, do not provoke your children to anger; but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.
• I John 3:18 let us not love with word or with tongue, but in action and truth.
• Don't take offence when criticized. Look for the truth in it.
• I Peter 5:14 Greet one another with a kiss of love.
• Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He will make your paths straight.
• PSA 19:14 Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my rock and my Redeemer.
• 2CH 16:9 "For the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His.

• What you do next shows what you believe about God.
• God is always at work around you.
• God pursues a continuing love relationship with you that is real and personal.
• God invites you to become involved with Him in His work.
• God speaks by the Holy Spirit through the Bible, prayer, circumstances, and the church to reveal Himself, His purposes, and His ways.
• God's invitation for you to work with Him always leads you to a crisis of belief that requires faith and action.
• You must make major adjustments in your life to join God in what He is doing.
• You come to know God by experience as you obey Him and He accomplishes His work through you.
  The preceding 8 are from Experiencing God by Henry Blackaby.

• He's God and we're not.
• God doesn't need us, but we desperately need him.
• What God demands, he supplies.
• What you seek, you find.
• Active faith releases God's power.
• There is no growth without struggle.
• What God starts, He finishes.
  The preceding 7 are from He's God and We're Not by Ray Pritchard.