World Proverbs Quotes

“For it is not needful, to use a common proverb, that one should drink up the ocean who wishes to learn that its water is salt.”

“Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money. One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that subject. Scripture offers about five hundred verses on prayer, fewer than five hundred on faith, and over two thousand on money. The believer's attitude toward money and possessions is determinative.”

“A proverb is good sense brought to a point.”

“One day we will all wear a garment which has no pockets...”

“If you don't find a good teacher, find a good book.”

“Enjoy without injury, live without loss.”

“The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice, and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy in him. Proverbs 23:24”

“I myself find the division of the world into an objective and a subjective side much too arbitrary. The fact that religions through the ages have spoken in images, parables, and paradoxes means simply that there are no other ways of grasping the reality to which they refer. But that does not mean that it is not a genuine reality. And splitting this reality into an objective and a. subjective side won't get us very far.”