NEW PROVERBS AND WISDOM SAYINGS
"Getting closer to God makes for less wriggle room" - Greg Valerio
There's no change without challenge.
You can't be a father until you've been a son.
Expression clarifies thought.
All expression deepens impression.
Information is easy: formation is work.
If Involvement is the root then the plant is Intimacy and the blossom is Identity.
Intimacy flourishes inside commitment.
Loyalty is for lemmings, faithfulness is for friends!
Hope and holiness are conjoined.If you lose your hope, your holiness is at risk. (Jeff Lucas)
Perfect is the enemy of good.
Nourish the person; don't feed the ego.
If you want God to move fast, fast!
Authority is for service, not dominion.
A skilled question opens doors.
Pastoritis is the bane of African churches.
Obey includes be.
Much of our suffering comes from having internalised the opinions of others. (Richard Rohr)
Why trust, when you can worry? (Jamie Buckingham)
If you stand for nothing, you'll fall for anything. (Dave Scroby)
Allegation includes leg, and yours is being pulled.
Consumerism has conquered the Western Church.
Preach the gospel at all times; if necessary, use words. (St Francis of Assisi)
If you want to get high with God, then get low before Him.
Getting Egypt out of slaves is harder than getting them out of Egypt.
Integrity is like virginity. When it's gone, it's gone. (Larry Stockstill)
Outside of Christ, for an African no death is natural. All deaths are caused by be-witching or black magic. (Dr Elijah Maswanganyi)
Agape does not recognise value, but creates it. Agape loves and imparts value by loving. What gives [a man] value is precisely the fact that God loves him! (Anders Nygren)
When is self protection a sin?
Anger is a brief madness. [Ira furor brevis est] (Horace)
Anger is a stranger. [Nkanda azali mopaya] (Lingala proverb)
When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers... And also when they make love.(Kikuyu and Kiswahili proverb)
Long-tailed animals shouldn't jump over fires( Elwe proverb)
When turning the other cheek, be sure to keep your tongue in it! (C.T. Studd)
It's better to be kind than to be right.
Relationships matter more than results.
It is longsuffering that releases the promise.
The 'if' and 'what if' of our lives cannot overpower the glory of God.
Nothing has ever come to me, nothing has ever gone from me, that I shall not be better for God by it.
Don't examine secondary causes. Like Hudson Taylor, reckon that it is with God and God alone that we have to do. He is the primary cause.
Men light up like a match, women brew like a kettle.
There's a God-shaped hole in all of us.
God made things to be used and people to be loved. We confuse the two.
Perception is King. Context is Queen.
Sow a thought
Reap an action
Sow an action
Reap a habit
Sow a habit
Reap a character
Sow a character
Reap a destiny
It's the anointing that breaks the yoke.
If freedom is the prize, then safety is the price.
Faith outweighs fact; will is more needed than skill.