Reflections
"Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ. The greatest competitor of true devotion to Jesus is the service we do for Him. It is easier to serve than to pour out our lives completely for Him. The goal of the call of God is His satisfaction, not simply that we should do something for Him. We are not sent to do battle for God, but to be used by God in His battles. Are we more devoted to service than we are to Jesus Christ Himself?" - Oswald Chambers
proverbs vs. Proverbs
Came across some supposedly "thought-provoking" sayings recently, some makes sense, others are just thoughtful...
- Knock on the sky and listen to the sound. ~Zen Saying
- Don't miss the donut by looking through the hole. ~Author Unknown
- Life has the name of life, but in reality it is death. ~Heraclitus, Eustathius ad Iliad
- The obstacle is the path. ~Zen Proverb
- You can't fall off the floor. ~Author Unknown
- Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. ~Zen Buddhist Proverb
- The foot feels the foot when it feels the ground. ~Buddha
- No snowflake ever falls in the wrong place. ~Zen
- Even a clock that does not work is right twice a day. ~Polish Proverb
- A gun gives you the body, not the bird. ~Henry David Thoreau
- You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep. ~Navajo Proverb
- What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? ~George Gordon, Lord Byron, Child Harold's Pilgrimage
- Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind. ~Leo Rosten
Now how about Proverbs in the Bible...?
