Wise Splinter Quotes & Sayings

Reading takes you on a wonderful journey to places you have probably never been. Sit back and enjoy your journey. — Marjorie Taylor

Prejudice and Bias The gospel presents the contrasting images of the log versus the splinter (v. 41). Any truly wise teacher or preacher must beware of personal prejudices, namely, the log in his or her own eye that can limit or even twist the message. Sometimes catechists and preachers simply expound their own prejudices rather than the truth of the Gospel or the authentic teaching of the church. Sometimes scholars teach what is in their eyelashes rather than what is in the text! Anytime we find ourselves surprised in a new situation, we should look inward because the very fact of surprise may indicate a prejudice or at least a presumption in the face of something unexpected. The "expected" could be the prejudice. — Richard Sklba

Do you want to see all the wrong things in our world?
You sit right there.
Then notice how many people move too fast about in life,
they go blind over the miracle of being in the moment.

Now, do you want to see all the right things?
Well I can't honestly speak for others.
But this is how it always works for me.
I just sit right here.

Right here. Beside you.

Then silently,
I notice how all the wrong things in my world
just seem to start falling
into their rightful places.

Right here. Beside you. — Frederick Espiritu

Human beings have an extraordinary capacity to imagine possibilities and then turn those possibilities into realities. Evident in the gifts of civilization - in our arts, languages, sciences, technologies, businesses, governments, and so on - it is clear that we are a profoundly creative species. Yet many of us only access a smidgen of our creativity. — Scott Edmund Miller

That's the hell of sand castles. They are always doomed. That's part of their beauty - their impermanence. — Pamela Moore

Every individual ought to travel on his or her own destiny path. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots. — Eleanor Farjeon

The jewels of sorrow last forever — James Thurber

The strongest is never strong enough to be always the master, unless he transforms strength into right, and obedience into duty — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The heart of government, coated with whatever velvet gloves you want to put on it, is a mailed fist of force and coercion. — Alan Keyes

I want to know the truth, however perverted that may sound. — Stephen Wolfram

I love people who choose to surprise the sad ones, Just to make them smile! — Artist Lisa May

Not a day on your calendar should ever be empty. It's bad luck. Twenty-four hours of wasted opportunity. — John Corey Whaley