"More Epigrams"

 

“More Epigrams”

 

(Please read the intro to “Epigrams” first.)

“Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken.” Oscar Wilde. (“I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made….”—Psalm 139:14).

“Doubt your doubts before you doubt your faith.” Joel Rosenberg. (“If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God…But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt.”--James  1:5-6).

“It’s not what I don’t know about the Bible that bothers me but what I do know and don’t do that does.” Abraham Lincoln. (“Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says,”—James 1:22).

“Few speed records are broken when people run from temptation.” E.C. Mckenzie. (“Flee immorality.”—1 Corinthians 6:18, NASB).

“Praise the Lord anyhow!” Oral Christian Tradition. (“Let everything that lives sing praises to the Lord.”—Psalm 150:6, NLT).

“Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.” C.S. Lewis. (“Pride goes before destruction, a haughty spirit before a fall.”—Proverbs 16:18).

“I can’t keep the birds from flying over my head but I can keep them from building a nest in my hair.” Martin Luther. (“Submit yourselves…to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.”—James 4:7).

“Beware of believing a half truth. It may be the wrong half.” Traditional proverb. (“What does the Scripture say?”—Romans 4:3).

“You can’t steer a car that’s stuck in park.” Motivational metaphor. (“{…Jesus}…said {to the blind man}, ‘Go, wash at the pool of Siloam…The man went and washed—and saw.”—John 9:6-7, TM).

“When our words become weapons, our relationships soon become casualties.” Our Daily Bread. (“Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt….”—Colossians 4:6, NKJV).

To be continued.

Grace and Blessings!

Jim McMillan