Wisdom of the Ages

Here are some of the verities of life which are eternally true. Let us take one for cogitation each day and try to reflect the truth of it in our life. We have, of course, to guard against making an alloy of it by a subtle admixture, traducing it to suit our own commonplace convenience.

October:

  1. The Seeker after Truth should be humbler than the dust.

  2. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

  3. He that diggeth a pit shall fall into it.

  4. Men will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; anything but – live for it.

  5. As food is necessary for the body, prayer is necessary for the soul.

  6. What’s man’s first duty? The answer’s brief: to be himself.

  7. He that loveth not knoweth not God, for God is Love.

  8. Life would be tolerably agreeable if it were not for amusements.

  9. And if the blind leads the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

  10. He that has knowledge spareth his word.

  11. What God does; He does well.

  12. My God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?

  13. For words are the Word and the Word is God.

  14. Prayer is a call to humility. It is a call to self-purification, to inward search.

  15. Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.

  16. Envy and wrath shorten life.

  17. There is only one religion though there are a hundred versions of it.

  18. Where there is no Truth, there can be no True Knowledge.

  19. Serve thee with a quite mind.

  20. A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

  21. This life at best is but an inn and we the passengers.

  22. Not until we have reduced ourselves to nothingness can we conquer the evil in us.

  23. Lighten our darkness, we beseech Thee, oh Lord.

  24. Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God and it is undescribable, untranslatable.

  25. Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

  26. The rich and poor meet together, the Lord is the maker of them all.

  27. The distance doesn’t matter; it is only the first step that is difficult.

  28. In His will is our peace.

  29. Drugs and drinks are the two arms of the devil with which he strikes his helpless victims into stupefaction and intoxication.

  30. Who rises from prayer a better man, his prayer is answered.

  31. There should be Truth in thought, Truth in speech, Truth in action.