Quotes

Be inspired by words of wisdom, admonition and encouragement that you may find the key to the richies in your heart!

ou will be cheating or harming yourself if the pains in acquiring a thing supercedes the value or enjoyment you derive from it!”
• “THE CHURCH IS THE HEART OF MAN AND THE BIBLE HIS ACTIONS!”Therefore do not say, this man did not go to church or this man is not with a bible, therefore he does not know God. Rather let what you think from your heart and what you do by your action prove to everyone the essence of the church and the bible.
• “CONTENTMENT IS RICHER THAN WEALTH!”
• Remember this from a great thinker “God made man into men so that they may help each other!”
• ” OH LORD, HELP US TO KNOW WHAT WE ARE TO ASK FOR IN OUR PRAYERS, FOR WE DO NOT ALWAYS KNOW WHAT WE NEED.”
• REMEMBER: God has answered so many things we have not asked of Him than the few things we have actually asked from Him!
• If everybody is willing to die for one another, then nobody would die!
• It is not the time that has brought about change but the changing mentality of man!
• It is not time or nature that has brought about change but the changing mentality of man.
• If your heart is inclined towards caring for others, you will not be bothered about who cares for you!
• Truth is not meant to please the Hearer but the Speaker. Truth is not to satisfy the Minds of Others but the Conscience of the Holder!
• The Good man is not wholly unhappy neither had the fool a thorough enjoyment.
• It is not abundance that makes one rich but economy
• The most complicated or so called difficult things are composed of simple and common things. It is because we take common things for granted that turns out to be difficult things to us later.
• To be abandoned by the one who loves you is more dangerous than to be abandoned by the one you love!
• Even when the day is gone Oh Lord, don’t let me be gone!
• Being abandoned by the one you love only subject you to a period of heartache. But being abandoned by the one who loves you exposes your life to danger!
• Places where gold are found, there herbs that preserve life are not found
• A man never is as happy as when he makes another man happy!
• In poverty one may be in need of many things which he can live without. But those who love riches deny themselves everything! It is because some rich are blind to what they already have and are always in need of more which is never enough to satisfy them.
• It is the celebrant alone that celebrates his birthday within his heart, his friends and well wishers celebrate in the field.
• A birthday is not an addition of years from the womb but subtraction of years to the tomb!
• We work while we are living and wait to receive our final wage while we are dead!
• Woman, you are man’s cooperative partner, not the slave of his passion.
• Man, you are woman’s responsive companion, not the king of her right!
• Some cast of emotions is not ours “The evil man puts forward false emotions to disguise his vile ploy while the good man suppresses his bitter emotions to appease others.
• Even when temptation is stronger than our will yet is our will greater than temptation!
• Even when we show love to the devil, he still hated us and while we show hatred to God he yet loves us.
• I have every reasons not to be here but I find a reason to be here (concerning the legion of Mary)
• God has reserved the worst place of hell for Catholics and the best place of heaven for Catholics!
• God has only three answers to our prayers “Yes,” “No,” and “Wait.”
• In a million words I learnt not a lesson, but in the single word of silence I learnt a million lessons.
• It is only weak people who fight to prove their strength when provoked.
• The weak man’s strength is built on his physique and only fights for a moment before he gives up. The strong man has his strength built in his mind and keeps on fighting for many years!
• If what we do ends up wrong, does not mean it cannot be right, but we have not done the wrong thing the right way! Keep on trying in different ways.
• Genuine religion is not worth the blood of an unbeliever. It only proves its genuineness through persistence which subdues them!
• There are preferences of GIVING which consist of, giving and having enough left for yourself or giving and having to suffer temporal lack!
• Much laughter could be harmful. Occasional tears are good for the health. Each balances the mental scale!
• There is more fullness of life in Contentment than in Riches!
• There is more abundance in contentment than in wealth!
• It is better you do not think God will do a miracle for you just because He needs you to pay a tithe or do a thanksgiving for Him!
• Intellectual knowledge backed with faith is insurmountable by false claim
• Better to have your body locked in a prison yard than to have your mind imprisoned by your body!
• You can keep the beast in men calm with food, shelter and clothing. The Saints disregard these for themselves; the devils seek beyond these for themselves.
• To commend others for their little duty, overlooking the greater duty you perform is the best tonic for making them happily ease your burden.
• It is not the kind of place you found yourself but how the mind and spirit relate with that place that makes it worth a home!
• Let me not give you what I own, oh Lord. Help me instead to give you my heart. And by
Giving you my heart, all I own shall become yours.
• Oh God, help me to listen to the gentle voice of my conscience in times of strife, just as You manifest Your presence to Elijah in a gentle wind.
• The more you continue to ask “Why did this person offend me?” The more you would not find the reason to forgive!
• Your character such as gentleness, diligence, humility, would attract good men; your characteristics such as aggression, status, wealth, would readily attract evil men. (Tell me, why would a common man goes his way alone in the dark, but the man of influence would have to secure himself in the light of day?) .
• You rich man, God gives you riches to distribute to the poor, but you keep them for yourself saying it is God’s blessings for your hard work, wit and good nature. Still, who affords you the strength and wit and nature?
• The things you say and do live longer than your person!
• The most realistic prayer in practice is to work and the best idealistic work in conception is to pray!
• When life has no essence, death becomes essential!
• Laughter and occasional tears both help to balance the scale of mental heath.
• We must love the dead and miss them so much because someday we shall be united with them in love.
• If you don’t have money, you are just a fool. But your foolishness begins when you start having money!
• I do not contest, that is for fools. It is either it belongs to you or it belongs to me!
• The bone of contention is that foolish men fight for the bone while the wise men have the meat with them!
• One who works will satisfy God; one who eats satisfies himself!
• Give me a book, being a student; you could be more sensible than giving me money worth a hundred books!
• He who seeks contentment has satisfied all he needs than he who seeks riches to satisfy his needs!
• Wise men seek contentment, foolish men seek riches!
• There is already too much interaction in silence; you don’t need to talk more!
• You may not find an answer if you misuse between the time to meditate and the time to pray even as both have answers!
• If Jesus Christ does not come tomorrow, your end may come tomorrow!
• Even the rich secretly admire the poor, but their pride would not make them dispense with that status.
• I do not defend my belief neither do i impose it. I only explains what it is but It defends n imposes itself.