Quotes and Wisdom

Q: How does our appearance factor into the equation of falling in love?
A: This is interesting; we have found that if you are very unattractive, it can hurt you a lot in forming romantic relationships. However, being attractive doesn’t help that much.
Q: How do you explain that?
A: We have found that two important characteristics, kindness and intelligence, are extremely important in the process of falling in love. And attractiveness is not connected to these things. These two attributes are things that people learn about someone from knowing them over time. Intelligence is important in all aspects of life, especially in love. But kindness is the strongest indicator for a successful long-term relationship.
Skrevet av Professor Arthur Aron from State University of New York.

People who know the most know that they know so little, while people who know nothing want to take all day to tell you about that! Big people are always giving someone credit and taking blame; little people are always seeking credit and giving blame.

Ok my main reason with these statements is to be an encouragement and to make you think! So therefor this question:
When Jesus was in the process to gather 12 disciples before He started his ministry, what was He looking for in the lives of these 12? What did these people needed to have or to be in order to fit Jesus gang?

Never measure the height of a mountain untill you have reached the top, thern you will see how low it was.

Things do not happen, things are made to happen.

Accomplishment will prove to be a journey, not a destiny.

Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words can break out heart.

Have a fantastc day, it all depends how you look at things.

Dare to risk:
* To laugh is to risk appearing a fool.
* To weep is to risk appearing sentimental.
* To reach for another is to risk involvement.
* To love is to risk not being loved in return.
* To belief is to risk failure.
* To live is to risk dying.

Let us learn by paradox:
* That the way down is the way up.
* That to be low is to be high.
* That to have nothing is to posses all.
* That the contrite spirit is the rejoicing spirit.
* That the repenting soul is the victorious soul.

Your best friend:
..sees the best in you, even if you don’t show it;
..can tell when you need a hug and doesn’t hesitate to offer one;
..believes you first and rumors second;
..understands you, even when you don’t;
..brings out the best in you, but doesn’t insist on the credit;
..shares with you, even the chocolate;
..makes you laugh when you see little to laugh about.
Want this friendship? Be one!

You will never learn faith in comfortable surroundings
–Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation
–Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the one who is leading
–Faith is to belief what you do not see, the reward for this faith is to see what you belief.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday
–or: I do not fear tomorrow, for I remember yesterday and I love today
–Better than counting your years is to make your years count
–Thanksgiving is good, thanksliving is better
–Every temptation is an oportunity to our getting nearer to God.

The thing which hurt, instruct
–To know how to suggest is the art of teaching
–Good tools do not make an excellent teacher but an excellent teacher makes good use of tools
–Good teachers cost more, but poor teachers cost most
–The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who wish to learn
–To teach something you don’t know is like coming back from somewhere you havent been.

The profit of life is life, not money
–Succes is not measured by the heights one attains, but by the the obstacles one overcomes
–God doesn’t call us to be succesfull. He calls us to be faithfull
–In order to get to the top, you need to go to the bottom of things
–To have suffered much is like knowing many languages: It gives the person acces to many more people.

The woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those which sang the best
–Tact is a remarkeble human quolity that allows you to know just how far to go to far
–Most of us know when to say nothing, few of us knows when
–You are often sorry for saying a harsh word, but never regret saying a kind one. Have a great day and don’t forget to embrace what makes this day unick.

The rich are not always godly, but the godly are always rich
–The secret of life is not to do what one likes, but to like what one has to do
–We have to make with our limitations
–You can preach a better sermon with your life then with your lips. Have a great day today.

It is better to die for something than it is to live for nothing
–It is not the man with the motive but the man with the purpose who wins.
–Prayer is not an easy way of getting what we want, but the only way of becoming what God wants us to be.
–We may not put a question mark where God puts a period.

There is nothing new except what has been forgotten
–One dog barks at something and a hundred bark at the sound
–We can never see the sun rise if we are looking into the west
–God gives every bird food, but He does not throw in into the nest
–The purposes of God are sometimes delayed, but never abandoned!.
Blessings for today, because this day will never come back!

If we don’t have the things we want, lets want the things we have
–The only place we can hide from God’s prersence is in His presence
–Prayer does not need proof, it needs practise
–The man who is not proud of his God seldom makes God proud of him
–Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

If God is your partner, make your plans large
–No man has the right to do as he pleases unless he pleases to do right
–Not what we have, but what we enjoy constitutes our abundance
–Don’t let your possessions possess you
–You cannot stumble if you are on your knees.

People aren’t persecuted for doing wrong but for doeing right
–There is always water if you bore deep enough
–The man who removed the mountain began by carrying away small stones
–Personality has the power to open many doors, but character must keep them open
–A pessimist is a person who blows out the candle to see how dark it is.

A poor man met a millionair, who wanted to get richer each week and said: “I am a richer man then you”. “How do you figure that out” he replied. “Because I have as much as money as I want, and you haven’t”
–People are funny; they spend money they don’t have, to buy things they don’t need, to impress people they don’t like
–The peace of God passes all understanding and misunderstanding.

In a discussion the difficulty lies not in being able to defend your opinion, but to know it
–People are so anxious to talk about closed doors that they lost sight of the open ones
–To keep in the middle of the road one most be able to see both sides
–The optimist is wrong as often as the pessimist is, but he has a lot more fun.

It is better to have your bank in heaven than to have your heaven in a bank
–He who works for money seldom gets far
–A mother is the only person on earth who can divide her love among then children and each child still have all her love
–He that cannot obey cannot command.

The good news is that God meets us where we are, because we cannot rise to where He would have us be
–No man is small who does a small job in a great way
–Go as far as you can see and when you get there you will see farther
–If God has called you, don’t look over your shoulder to see who is following you.

You can lead a horse to water, but you cannot make him drink
–Keep God’s love in your heart as well in your mind
–The Lordship of Jesus Christ in my life is the first step in missions
–The man who never makes a mistake probably gets his salary from one who does.

The average man thinks about what he has said; the above average about what he is going to say.
As a man grow older and wiser, he talks less and says more.
If you don’t live it, don’t teach it!.
Much time is spent teaching young people… how to make a living, yet few know how to make a life.

If we don’t have the things we want, let’s want the things we have.

Character is what we do or be when no one is looking.

Hi, another one: Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

How can we/me help others to develope in whom God say you are! Here is one: One of the main developing things for your life is in having an unhurried time with God. Gods blessings for today.

Humility is not thinking less of yourself; it’s about thinking about yourself, less.

Wisdom is the ability to interpret a situation through God’s eyes. Wisdom is seeing what God sees.

I am wondering if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult….???

You may give without loving, but you cannot love without giving!
-The Lord takes notice, not only of what we give, but of what we have left
-Don’t give till it hurts; give a little more give till it feels good
-May God forbid that we should present our gifts and withhold ourselves.

Forgiveness is man’s deepest need and highest achievement
–Freedom is only a word until you have been close to losing it
–The only way to have a friend is to be one
–The Lord takes notice, not only of what we give, but also of what we have left
–You don’t hit anything unless you aim at it.

“Tell me” said the philosopher, “where is God”? “First tell me” said the other, “where He is not”
–God must first do something for us and in us, before He can do something through us
–The mystery of godliness is God humbling Himself to become man. The mystery of iniquity is man exalting himself to become God.

I shall pass through this world only once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do so. Let me not neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

This is an interesting and deep statement: “Most Christians do not have fellowship with God; they have fellowship with each other about God”. This is give the urge to describe fellowship.

A true missionairy is God’s man/woman in God’s place, doing God’s work in God’s way for God’s glory!

Some people find life an empty dream, it is because they put nothing into it.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

If you are planning for a year, sow rice; if you are planning for a decade, plant trees; if you are planning for a lifetime, educate people.

The happiest life ends before death.

Consider each day of your life to be the best.

Life is half spent before one knows what it is.

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy!

The real tragedy in life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use the one talent.

Most of us know how to say nothing. Few of us know when

People who talk much say little.

No one knows what he can do until he tries – There is only one way to improve one’s work and that is loving it – Raise your hat to the past and take your coat off to the furture.

You will never leave where you are, until you decide where you would rather be.

The day you make a decision about your life is the day your world will change.

Intolerance of your present creates your future. “Forget the former things, do not dwell in the past. Behold, I am doing a new thing; now it springs up; do you not percieve it? I am making a way in the wilderness, and streams in the wasteland.

At some point in your life, you will either be forced to live in the potential of your faith, or with the consequences of your doubt.

The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.

When it is definitely settled that a thing can’t be done, watch someone do it.

It is not a matter of scripture being hard to understand, but of our unwillingness to yield to it.

The greatest difficulty with the world is not its inability to produce, but its unwiilingness to share.

What we can do for Christ is the test of service. What we can suffer for Him is the test of love.

If your Christianity won’t work where you are, it won’t work anywhere.

Christian growth comes not by pouring in, but by giving out.

The straith and narrow way has the lowest accident rate.

If the church aims to hit sin, it should pull the trigger.

There is only one pretty child in the world and every mother has it.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with Him.

Jesus lived that he might die and died that we might live!

When Jesus has you for anything, then you have Him for everything.

It is easier and better to build boys than to repair men.

Character is build by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

Charm is a womans strenght just as strength is a man’s charm.

Jesus puts a child in the midst, churches puts him in the basement.

Train up a child in the way it should go and go that way yourself.

The public business of the nation is the privat business of every citizen.

Don’t try to think why you can’t. Think how you can.

Your character is what God knows you to be. Your reputation is what men think you are.

What you are tomorrow, you are becoming today.

If people speak ill of you, live so that no one willo belief them.

Belief in what you want and you get it.

What you belief is what you are.

Unbelief is not an act of the intellect but of the will.

A good question for an atheist is to serve him a fine dinner and ask him if he beliefs there is a cook.

Study the bible to be wise, belief it to be safe, practice it to be holy.

To get the blessing we must do the work.

It is your actions and attitude when you are on your own that reflect what you really are.

People may doubt what you say, but they will always believe what you do.

Never explain your actions. Your friends don’t need it and your enemies won’t belief you anyway.

Be great believers. Little faith will bring your souls to heaven, but great faith will bring heaven to your souls.

There is always room at the top because many of those who get there, go to sleep and roll of.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

It is better to appreciate things you don’t have then to have things you don’t appreciate.

Belief is the truth held in the mind, faith is a fire in the heart.

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but all agree that it is old enough to know better.

The people who are worried about adding years to their life should try adding life to their years.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

The longest period in a woman’s life is the 10 years between the time she is 39 and 40. (oops)

Footprints in the sands of time were not made sitting down.

Our heavenly father never takes anything from His children unless He means to give them something better.

Advise is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

You can get anything done if you don’t mind who gets the credit.

The doing of little things makes the life great.

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

God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

Truth not translated into life is dead truth.

Beware of a half truth; you may get hold of the wrong half.

The terrible thing about seeking truth is that you find it.

Any time you find that truth stands in your way, you may be sure thay you are heading in the wrong direction.

Troubles that you borrow, soon become your own.

The most trouble is produced by those who don’t produce anything else.

The shadow of a trouble is mostly blacker than the trouble itself .

In the presence of trouble, some people grow wings, others buy crutches.

- “Well look at that, the bullets go where you point the gun.” – Jonas Blane (Karakter fra TVserien “The Unit”)

- “For’n Solan er det vankelige en baggatell. Det ummulige en utfordring.” – Solan Gundersen

- “Kom arbeidslyst å treng deg på, her skal du motstand finne.” – Solan Gundersen

- “If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents – the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else’s. But if their thoughts – i.e., Materialism and Astronomy – are mere accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It’s like expecting the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milk-jug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.” – C. S. Lewis

“Tell me” said the philosopher, “where is God”? “First tell me” said the other, “where He is not” – Ukjent Kilde