“The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are” –C. S Lewis

“Sometimes dead people can be our best friends.” –Mel Lawrenz

“Teach your children and grandchildren the importance of wisdom, and you have fulfilled one of the most important duties you have.- Paul Chappell

“Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, have oftentimes no connection.  Knowledge dwells in heads replete with the thoughts of other men: wisdom in minds attentive to their own.  Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble, that he

“The greatest saint in the world is not he who prays most or fasts most; it is not he who gives alms, or is most eminent for temperance, chastity or justice. It is he who is most thankful to God.” –William Law

“Gratitude is an offering precious in the sight of God, and it is one that the poorest of us can make and be not poorer but richer for having made it.” –A.W. Tozer

“Pride slays thanksgiving, but an humble mind is the soil out of which thanks naturally grow.” –Henry Ward Beecher

“A state of

“How is it possible to break the substantial power money holds over us? Very simply, give it away” –Richard Swenson

“There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made –this act is GIVING” –Jacques Ellul

“Sharing what you have is greater than what you have”

“When the fruit of your service is out of all proportion to the gifts you possess- that is a Blessing!”- Watchman Nee

“God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other …

“We don’t need so much to hide our righteous acts from others as we need to hide them from ourselves” -Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Humility is not acquired by being modest; it is found in embracing the simple matters of ordinary work. Not only will I take out the garbage or clean a bathroom because I am asked, I assume such chores as an ongoing responsibility.  I find much of God’s presence in doing the simple things” –Gordon MacDonald

“May we be as severe with ourselves over our own subtle sins as we are with the vile sins we condemn …