The Wish I
Said That items below are used with the permission of the author Ralph Milton.
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WISH I SAID THAT… 41
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in
all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to
all the people you can, as long as ever you can."
by John Wesley via Don Sandin
You can't control the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
Yiddish proverb via Jim Taylor
Wrinkles are receipts for living.
Source unknown, via Evelyn McLachlan
WISH I SAID THAT… 42
You don't have to go looking for love when it's where
you come from.
Werner Erhard via
There is little joy in owning anything that is not shared.
Source unknown via Evelyn McLachlan
Awareness of the treasure of the present moment puts us in the presence of God
wherever we are.
Source unknown
WISH I SAID THAT… 43
Some Methodist birds in the wood
Sang hymns whenever they could.
They were always in doubt
What the words were about,
But they thought it was doing them good.
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is
the most difficult thing in the world.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Idolatry is having anything as an ultimate concern other than the well-being of
the whole universe.
Source unknown
WISH I SAID THAT… 44
What lies behind us and what lies before us are
inconsequential compared to what lies within us.
Source unknown via Don Sandin
One old friend is better than two new ones.
Yiddish Proverb via Jim Taylor
God does not believe in atheists. Therefore atheists do not exist.
Source unknown, via Evelyn McLachlan
WISH I SAID THAT… 45
Linguistic insecurity is perhaps one of the chief
motivators for linguistic prescriptivism.
Braj B. Kachru and Cecil L. Nelson
via Jim Taylor who ads, "I want you to know that this has nothing to do
with me personally."
Those who travel to a place of pilgrimage, to a holy place, may hope to experience
an epiphany of some sort, but may find only that the
Alexander McCall Smith via Gordon Verplank
If absence makes the heart grow fonder, a lot of folks must really love our
church.
Source unknown via Evelyn McLachlan
There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and
one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything
whatsoever.
Gandhi via Don Sandin
WISH I SAID THAT… 46
Speak only when it improves the silence.
folk wisdom via Evelyn McLachlan
You came into the world with nothing, and you will leave the world with
nothing. But in between is
Christmas!
sign in a
If you give me an egg and I give you an egg, we each have one egg. If you
give me an idea and I give you an idea, we each have two ideas.
West African proverb, via Eduard Hiebert
WISH I SAID THAT… 47
I am old enough to know that a red carpet is just a
rug.
Al Gore Jr. via
Hope is believing in spite of the evidence, and then
watching the evidence change.
Jim Wallis via
Heroes are people who can keep their mouths shut when
they are right.
Yiddish Proverb
WISH I SAID THAT… 48
God puts a tear in your eye so you always can see a
rainbow.
Author Unknown, via Wayne Donnelly
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing
to attempt.
William Shakespeare via Evelyn McLauchlan
God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to
change the one I can, and the wisdom to know that it's me.
Paul Tillich and others,
via Jane Millikan
WISH I SAID THAT… 49
Long ago people cursed and beat the ground with
sticks. It was called witchcraft. Today, it's called golf.
Source unknown via Tom Spinks
People who say that something is impossible should not
interrupt those who are managing to get it done.
Source unknown via Evelyn McLachlan
Easter is hope on a rampage. The world comes alive with
possibility.
Source unknown
WISH I SAID THAT… 50
Imagine how happy life would be if we could just allow
ourselves the moment we're in - to learn from it - to taste and savor and lick
its depths.
Source unknown
A wise person hears one word and understands two.
Yiddish Proverb
God is present in the force that makes us restless.
Paul Tillich