Quotes Aug 14

My grand point in preaching is to break the
hard heart, and to heal the broken one.
     --John Newton (1725-1807)

Crowns of roses fade--crowns of thorns endure.
Calvaries and crucifixions take deepest hold
of humanity.
The triumphs of might are transient--they pass and
are forgotten.  The sufferings of right are graven
deepest on the chronicle of nations.
--Abram Joseph Ryan (1838-1886)
      _A Land Without Ruins_ (poem)

The best definition of wisdom I have found is from
the Old Testament scholar Tremper Longman.
He wrote: "Wisdom is the skill of living.  It is a practical
     knowledge that helps one know how to act
     and how to speak in different situations.
     Wisdom entails the ability to avoid problems,
     and the skill to handle them when they present
     themselves.Wisdom includes the ability to interpret other
     people's speech and writing in order to react
     correctly to what they are saying to us."
A simpler definition of wisdom is this: "doing the
right thing without a precedent."
The believer who can respond to an unexpected
situation in the same way Christ would is someone
who has biblical wisdom, who has the mind of Christ.
--David Jeremiah (1941-    )