Wise Words on Wednesday: Making of friendship
Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit
– Aristotle
Category: Quotation
Wise Words on Wednesday: God, the Referee
When something unfair happens, God often acts like a football referee who lets play continue to see if those wronged can gain some kind of advantage out of it
– Milton Jones
Wise Words on Wednesday: For a happy life
Remember this, that very little is needed to make a happy life
– Marcus Aurelius (121-180)
Wise Words on Wednesday: The Budding of forgiveness
“I wondered if that was how forgiveness budded; not with the fanfare of epiphany, but with pain gathering its things, packing up, and slipping away unannounced in the middle of the night.”
– Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
Wise Words on Wednesday: Do you believe in Jeff?
God can be a bit like someone called Jeff. When people talk about him you think you know who they mean, but in reality they might be talking about someone else who they call Jeff
– Milton Jones
Wise Words on Wednesday: Postponing the cure
Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul, you postpone the cure until next year?
– Horace
Wise Words on Wednesday: Charity
“Charity is not just giving, rather removing the need of those who receive charity and liberating them from it when possible”
– Saint Thomas of Villanova