| # |
SAYING
|
SCRIPTURE REFERENCE
|
Verdict
|
My Comment ~ Quip
|
|
1.
|
● God works in mysterious ways,
His wonders to perform
|
De.29:29
Ps.40:5;86:10;136:4
Job 5:9;
9:10;
26:12-14;
36:26;
37:5
Ec.3:11
Isa.40:13
Acts 15:18
Rom.8:26-28;11:33-36
1st Tim.3:16
|
🚫
|
Only God knows God.
|
|
2.
|
● His eternal glory
|
Ps. 19:1;
29:10;
45:6;
Is. 60:19
1st Tim. 1:17
1st Pet. 5:10
|
✔
|
Glory extends through and past all perception.
|
|
3.
|
● Wonder is the beginning of wisdom
|
Ps.111:10
Prov.9:10
Isa.29:9-14
1st Cor.3:18-19;
1:25
|
🚫
|
Eternal wonderment is the amazement of God.
|
|
4.
|
● Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom
|
Job 28:28
Psalm 111:10
Prov. 1:7;
2:2-13;
9:10
Isaiah 33:6
|
✔
|
His extent surpasses all knowledge.
|
|
5.
|
● Experience is the mother of wisdom
|
Job 12:12;
32:7-9
Prov. 3:13-18;
4:7;
10:23
Ec. 7:12
|
🚫
|
Experience is the loss of innocence knowing grief.
|
|
6.
|
● Experience is the best teacher
|
Ps. 119:71
Ec. 1:18
Lam. 3:27
Rom. 5:3-4
James 1:2-3
|
🚫
|
Knowledge is a heavy anchor without patience to float.
|
|
7.
|
● Knowledge is power
|
Prov. 9:10;
21:30
Ec. 4:1;
7:12
Is. 33:6;
47:10
Heb. 4:12
|
🚫
|
Without God one is powerless.
|
|
8.
|
● From the ends of the earth
|
1st Sam. 2:10
Job 28:24-25
Ps. 61:2;
135:7
Luke 11:31
|
✔
|
He freely establishes loveliness throughout time.
|
|
9.
|
● From the four corners of the earth
|
Isaiah 11:12
Revelation 7:1;
20:7-8
|
✔
|
All directions on earth are under His care.
|
|
10.
|
● Nature is the art of God
|
Job 38:4-18;
38:19-33
Psalms 89:11-12;
147:4
Ec. 3:11
|
🚫
|
Unbiased colorful waves eternally mingle with life.
|
|
11.
|
● Cleanliness is next to godliness
|
1st John 1:9
John 15:3
2nd Cor. 7:1
James 4:8
Eph. 5:26-27
Mat. 23:23-26
Luke 11:39-40
1st Sam. 16:7
|
🚫
|
It is a clean heart God looks for.
|
|
12.
|
● Once saved, always saved
|
James 2:24
Heb.6:4-6
1stCor.9:27
2ndCor.13:5
Jude 1:5
|
🚫
|
Human doctrine avoids accountability to God.
|
|
13.
|
● Once in grace always in grace
|
Ps. 84:11
2nd Pet. 3:18
Titus 2:11
Acts 20:32
Ep. 2:8;
6:24
Romans 5:1-2
Heb. 3:6;
12:28
Gal. 5:4
|
🚫
|
Grace shields those
that pursue obedience to God.
|
|
14.
|
● Saved by the skin of my teeth
|
Job 19:20
Psalm 33:16
Romans 5:10
|
✔
|
Still alive by the Grace of God!
|
|
15.
|
● The truth shall set you free
|
John 8:31-32
Proverbs 23:23
1st John 5:20
|
✔
|
Truth is the highest of all possessions.
|
|
16.
|
● Moment of truth
|
Ps.145:18
Mk.8:38
1stCor.15:52
2ndCor.13:8
1stThess.4:16
|
🚫
|
NOW (Never Over Wonders) is God’s creation.
From instant to instant, it is coming.
|
|
17.
|
● Ring of truth
|
Proverbs 11:22
Mark 12:30
John 8:32
2nd Timothy 2:15
James 1:18
1st John 4:6
|
🚫
|
Self indulgence void of God
tolls the reapers judgment.
|
|
18.
|
● What is truth
|
John 7:18;
8:32;
18:37-38
Rom. 1:25
2nd Cor. 13:8
Ep. 4:21
1st Tim. 3:15
1st John 1:8;
2:4
|
✔
|
Truth is trusting He is true.
Truth incites the murderous outrage of the ignorant.
|
|
19.
|
● Gospel truth
|
Ephesians 1:13-14
Colossians 1:5-6
|
🚫
|
Expressions of God convey His touch.
|
|
20.
|
● Rock solid truth
|
Deut. 32:4
Psalms 12:6;
15:1-3;
51:6;
112:7
John 8:32
1st Cor. 13:4-6
2nd Cor. 13:8
2nd Tim. 2:19
Heb. 6:17-20
|
🚫
|
Creation’s veil is obscured by all past reflections
|
|
21.
|
● The truth is not always what we want to hear
|
Proverbs 23:23
Hebrews 12:4-11
Revelation 3:19
Job 5:17
|
🚫
|
God knows what is best for each one of us.
|
|
22.
|
● Truth or dare
|
Ezekiel 5:15
Mat. 22:41-46
Mark 11:27-33
James 1:13-14
|
🚫
|
Truth’s clarity is not hidden behind scheming lies.
|
|
23.
|
● Don’t confuse me with the facts
|
Is. 5:20
Mat. 21:12-13
Mark 11:17-18
Acts 24:25
Jm. 3:16
|
🚫
|
Rejecting truth denies all that is noble.
|
|
24.
|
● Brutality honest
|
Jude 1:22-23
John 16:29-30
1st Cor. 14:9
Gal. 2:14;
4:16
|
🚫
|
Truth suffers alongside deception.
|
|
25.
|
● Honest to God
|
Psalms 15:1-2;
73:28;
145:18
Proverbs 3:3-4;
12:22
Matthew 5:37
John 4:24
Romans 4:20
1st John 1:9
|
🚫
|
Humble submission to His presence opens truth.
Truth with self is honesty in the face of God.
|
|
26.
|
● Truth stands the test of time;
lies are soon exposed
|
Prov. 12:19;
13:5
John 8:32
2nd Corinthians 13:8
Ecclesiastes 12:14
1st Timothy 5:24
1st Thessalonians 5:21
|
🚫
|
Truth transcends eternity
whereas lies dissipate to nothing.
|
|
27.
|
● A white lie
|
Prov.12:19;
14:5;
19:9
Is.5:20
1stJohn 2:21
Rev.21:8;
22:15
|
🚫
|
Any lie is the purest of dark.
|
|
28.
|
● Father of all lies
|
John 8:44
Romans 1:25
|
🚫
|
Self over God is a lie.
|
|
29.
|
● Liars often set their own traps
|
Ps.64:4-8
Prov.17:4;
18:7;
25:18
1st John 1:10
Rev.21:8
|
🚫
|
Liars lack the courage to stand in the light of truth.
A lie is the hardest to remember.
|
|
30.
|
● Believe the lie
|
Isaiah 5:20
Jeremiah 7:8;
9:3
Romans 1:25
|
🚫
|
Perceptions of man cannot nullify truth given of God.
|
|
31.
|
● Ask me no questions and I will tell you no lies
|
Proverbs 10:19;
13:3
Matthew 21:23-27
1st John 1:6;
2:4;
2:21-23;
4:1
Romans 3:4
|
🚫
|
It is humans that are in question, not God.
|
|
32.
|
● The only stupid question
is the one that is not asked
|
1st Thessalonians 5:21
1st John 4:1
|
🚫
|
Without question there is no seeking.
|
|
33.
|
● Asking for trouble
|
Psalm 7:14;
10:7
Proverbs 11:27
|
🚫
|
Never invited, turmoil invades tranquility.
|
|
34.
|
● Separation of state and faith
|
Isaiah 59:2
Romans 13:1-3
Titus 3:1
1st Peter 2:13-15
|
🚫
|
We are called by faith to support our leaders.
There is no separation of faith from state.
|
|
35.
|
● Above the law
|
Ezra 7:26
Ez. 7:23
1st Tim. 1:5-10
1st John 3:4
John 3:19
|
🚫
|
Unjustly lawlessness rides rules of barefaced darkness.
|
|
36.
|
● A law unto themselves
|
Ez.14:13-14;
16:14-19
Rom.2:12-16
Mat.7:21
1stJohn 3:7
|
🚫
|
Adherence to self over God is not righteousness.
|
|
37.
|
● God helps those who help themselves
|
Prov. 14:12;
28:26
Jer. 17:5
Rom. 5:6-8
Psalm 37:39
Mat. 5:6
2ndTim. 2:15
Jn. 7:17
1stPet. 2:1-3
Lk. 11:9-10
|
🚫
|
God's help is supreme; We can only
be helped by wanting His help first.
|
|
38.
|
● All men are created equal
|
Prov. 22:2
Ezekiel 18:4
Mat. 5:45
Rom. 10:12
Gal. 3:28
Ephesians 4:7;
4:11-13
1st Cor. 12:4-14
|
🚫
|
All souls are uniquely of equal value;
Men are given varying talents.
|
|
39.
|
● To be or not to be
|
Jas.5:12
Rom.14:8-9
Ps.118:17
Rev.2:7
1st John 5:11-12
|
🚫
|
To believe and live or not to believe and die.
|
|
40.
|
● To each his own
|
1st Kings 19:10
2nd Kings 4:33
Ps. 62:1;
102:7
Prov. 20:6
John 16:32
Luke 22:41
Mat. 25:15
Rom. 12:6-8
1st Cor. 7:7
|
🚫
|
The bottom of each heart waits alone.
|
|
41.
|
● Know thyself
|
Genesis 4:7
1st Timothy 4:16
1st Corinthians 2:11
|
🚫
|
Grasp self awareness (control) or oblivion.
|
|
42.
|
● To thine ownself be true
|
Matthew 5:37;
6:24
James 5:12
Luke 15:17;
21:19
Romans 3:3-4
1st Peter 4:10
1st John 5:20
|
🚫
|
God alone is the only pure truth.
Be true to Him who gives life.
|
|
43.
|
● Believe in yourself
|
Ps.118:8
Prov.3:5;
12:28;
16:25
Ez.14:20
Mark 4:40;
9:23-24
John 3:16,
3:36;
6:47;
14:1
1stThess. 5:6
Jm.2:23,
4:4
|
🚫
|
Believing in and through God finds confidence in
knowing righteousness is the conviction to follow God.
|
|
44.
|
● May your every wish be granted
|
Prov.10:24
Mat.7:11
Mk.11:24
John 15:7
Jm.1:5;
4:3
|
🚫
|
Trusting God allows His blessings.
|
|
45.
|
● As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he
|
Proverbs 23:7;
27:19
Matthew 5:28
Matthew 15:19
|
✔
|
The depth of a soul is the heart.
|
|
46.
|
● A man has to know his limitations
|
Prov.6:27-28;14:12;20:24
Jn.15:4
2ndCor.6:12
Gal.5:16-21;6:5
|
🚫
|
When desire exceeds capabilities calamities arise.
|
|
47.
|
● Let your conscience be your guide
|
Psalm 48:14
Proverbs 12:15;
28:26
John 8:7-9
Acts 24:15-16
Romans 2:14-15;
13:5
1st Peter 3:21
|
🚫
|
Guidance comes only by the Word of God;
Consider this in the passage of our lives.
|
|
48.
|
● A good conscience is a soft pillow
|
Proverbs 3:21-24
Ecclesiastes 5:12
|
🚫
|
Truth and honesty has no equal.
|
|
49.
|
● A clear conscience delivers deep sleep
|
Ps.3:5-6;
4:8
Prov.3:21-26
Acts 24:16
Heb.13:18
1stTim.1:5
|
🚫
|
Loving trust in Him secures true resting comfort.
|
|
50.
|
● In one’s heart of hearts
|
1stChron.28:9
Prov.3:5;
4:20-23
Ec.3:11
Luke 6:45;
12:34
Mark 12:30
Rom. 10:10
2nd Cor. 4:6
Gal. 4:6
Joel 2:12-13
|
🚫
|
One’s depth approaching truth defines existence.
|
|
51.
|
● Wear Your Heart On Your Sleeve
|
Nehemiah 2:2-3
Proverbs 12:16;
13:16;
18:2
|
🚫
|
Grief strikes deepest when loved ones hurt.
|
|
52.
|
● He who serves two masters has to lie to one
|
Job 27:8
Mat. 6:24
Luke 16:13
Rom. 6:16
2nd Pet. 2:19
|
🚫
|
One’s heart chooses nobility or deception.
|
|
53.
|
● Smell a rat
|
Psalm 64:6
Proverbs 14:16;
25:26
Isaiah 1:13-15
Luke 16:8
1st Timothy 5:24
|
🚫
|
Evil confidently prowls over the innocent of heart.
|
|
54.
|
● Two faced
|
Job 27:8
Psalm 119:113
Prov. 23:7;
24:8
Jer. 5:2
Matthew 6:24;
7:1-5;
23:3,
27
James 4:1-4,
8
|
✔
|
There is no honor a liar can hold.
|
|
55.
|
● Double tongued
|
Jer. 9:8
Psalms 62:4;
78:36
Prov. 11:9;
20:14
Mark 7:6
|
🚫
|
Serpents hiss sweet as they pounce upon the blind.
|
|
56.
|
● Play both sides of the fence
|
Psalms 28:3;
62:3-4
Mark 11:27-33
|
🚫
|
A hypocrite’s tool is to fool.
|
|
57.
|
● Stabbed in the back; Backstabber
|
Exodus 20:16
Proverbs 11:9;
16:28;
20:19;
21:14
Matthew 26:14-16
Romans 1:29-32
|
✔
|
Cruel outrage arises from ignorant opinions
void of knowledge spewing from the womb of hate.
|
|
58.
|
● Oil and water don’t mix
|
1st Corinthians 10:21
2nd Corinthians 6:14
|
🚫
|
Hearts in the light fathom not darkness's evil.
|
|
59.
|
● If you run after two hares you will catch neither
|
Ec. 1:17;
6:9
Matthew 6:24
1st Corinthians 9:24-26
Ephesians 4:14
James 1:6
Revelation 3:15-16
|
🚫
|
Firm resolve to decide directs one’s dedication.
Commitment is essential in making life purposeful.
|
|
60.
|
● As mad as a March hare
|
Ecclesiastes 9:3;
10:13
Galatians 5:17
James 1:15
|
🚫
|
Hysterical desires advance regrets with gloom.
|
|
61.
|
● Zeal without prudence is frenzy
|
Prov. 18:15;
22:3;
23:1,
17
Rom. 10:2
Gal. 4:18
Titus 2:14
|
🚫
|
Thoughtful passion is inspirations miracle.
|
|
62.
|
● Head over heels
|
Proverbs 25:16
Ecclesiastes 9:10
2nd Corinthians 9:2
|
🚫
|
One controlled committed soul inspires the whole.
|
|
63.
|
● To err is human, to forgive is divine
|
Romans 3:23
Matthew 6:14-15
1st John 4:1-6
2nd Peter 1:2-4
Ephesians 4:31-32
|
🚫
|
Truth holds all divinity.
|
|
64.
|
● I'm only human
|
Job 7:16;
32:8
Ps. 62:9;
78:39;
103:14
Jn. 16:21
Jm. 4:14
|
🚫
|
Time is a fence all are humbled by.
|
|
65.
|
● The spirit is willing but the flesh is weak
|
Genesis 4:7
Isaiah 59:11
Mat. 26:41
Mark 14:38
|
✔
|
We wish for more as we wearily groan.
|
|
66.
|
● Under the thumb
|
Psalms 69:20;
119:134
Ec. 4:1
Matthew 5:10
John 15:20
|
🚫
|
Oppression is the flesh we wear.
|
|
67.
|
● Every man for himself
|
Isaiah 47:10;
56:11
Ezekiel 32:10
Jonah 1:5
Jeremiah 17:10
Matthew 26:38
Philippians 4:6
|
🚫
|
Every soul desires salvation.
The essential nature of each determines life or death.
|
|
68.
|
● Every man has his price
|
Proverbs 6:26;
13:7-8
Ecclesiastes 7:29
Isaiah 1:23
Luke 12:15
1st Corinthians 10:13
Acts 8:20
|
🚫
|
Above cost lies integrity.
Heartless are those lacking nobility.
|
|
69.
|
● Pride comes before a fall
|
Prov. 16:18;
18:12;
11:2
Ob. 1:3-4
Gal. 5:4
1st Tim. 3:6
|
✔
|
Pride is self over God.
The man who exalts himself exalts no one.
|
|
70.
|
● As proud as a peacock
|
Proverbs 28:25-26
Isaiah 5:21
Ezekiel 13:3
Colossians 2:18
|
🚫
|
Ominous displays can be flickers short lived.
|
|
71.
|
● Head in the clouds
|
Ecclesiastes 11:4
|
🚫
|
Lofty ideals can encumber sensibility.
|
|
72.
|
● Come down to earth
|
Isaiah 45:18
John 8:23
1st John 4:17
1st Corinthians 5:8-10
Mark 16:15-16
Colossians 3:1-11
|
🚫
|
Better to stand firm than fly vainly through life.
|
|
73.
|
● Down to earth
|
Genesis 37:10;
42:6;
43:26;
48:12
James 4:10
1st Peter 5:6
|
🚫
|
One is best served dutifully humbled by the earth.
|
|
74.
|
● No man is an island
|
Psalm 97:1
Prov. 18:1
Romans 12:4-5
1st Cor. 12:13-14,
27
|
🚫
|
A soul’s touch unfolds a multitude of legacies.
|
|
75.
|
● The work praises the man
|
Psalm 90:17
Proverbs 6:6;
14:23
John 6:28-29
Ephesians 2:10
Colossians 1:10
Revelation 14:13
|
🚫
|
Steady resilient efforts accomplish much.
Glories of a soul’s light beholds before the angels.
|
|
76.
|
● Work smarter not harder
|
Nehemiah 6:15
John 6:28-29
Ep. 2:10
Col. 1:10
|
🚫
|
The union of souls accomplishes the incomparable.
|
|
77.
|
● Practice what you preach
|
1st Cor. 9:14;
9:27
Rom. 2:21-24
Heb. 12:1;
3:19
Gal. 1:6-9
Ephesians 2:10
1st Tim. 4:12
James 2:18
|
🚫
|
One's works mirror the depth of one's faith.
|
|
78.
|
● Don't talk the talk
if you can't walk the walk
|
Jeremiah 10:23
Ezekiel 33:31
Ephesians 5:15
Phil. 1:27
1st Cor. 9:27
James 3:14
1st Peter 1:6-8
|
🚫
|
Flee corruption and pray honesty reveals you.
|
|
79.
|
● Nip it in the bud
|
Jer. 6:16
1st Cor. 15:33
Galatians 5:16
1st Thess. 5:22
|
🚫
|
One’s habits and traditions can shut off God.
|
|
80.
|
● Old habits die hard
|
Job 22:15
Mark 7:7-9,
13
Rom.10:2
2ndTh.3:6
1stTim.4:7
|
🚫
|
Convention can blind ability to see absolute truth.
|
|
81.
|
● Easier said than done
|
1stSam.17:10
Lk.18:25
Rom.12:18
1st Cor.10:31
Phil.2:14
Col.3:14,
17,
23
1stTh.5:14
Heb.12:14
Jm. 1:23-25
1stJn.4:18
|
🚫
|
Civilizations crumble lacking individual trust,
personal accountability, and reverence for God.
|
|
82.
|
● A thorn in my side
|
Judges 2:3
John 19:34
2nd Corinthians 12:7
|
🚫
|
Aching afflictions carry the hopes of humanity.
|
|
83.
|
● Grin and bear it
|
Job 9:27
John 16:33
2nd Timothy 2:3
|
🚫
|
An enduring nature is comforted by those similar.
|
|
84.
|
● No pain, no gain
|
Psalm 104:23
Phil. 1:21
1st Timothy 6:6
Rev. 21:4
|
🚫
|
Pain influences passageways to enlightenment.
|
|
85.
|
● If you can’t take it you shouldn’t dish it out
|
Ecclesiastes 7:21-22
|
🚫
|
Self sacrifice engages wisdoms nobility.
|
|
86.
|
● He that can’t endure the bad
will not see the good
|
Job 7:11;
21:4
Ps.52:1
Luke 21:19
Rom.2:5-7
Jm.5:11
|
🚫
|
Crippling despair sends many to unrecoverable gloom.
|
|
87.
|
● Into each life, a little rain must fall
|
Mat. 5:45
2nd Cor. 4:17
Heb. 12:11
1st Pet. 1:6;
2:19;
5:10
|
🚫
|
Tears heal wounds softening the heart.
|
|
88.
|
● Under the weather
|
Ps. 38:6;
71:9;
109:22
Prov. 18:14
Ec. 12:1-3
Mark 2:17
|
🚫
|
Our candles flicker in a snuff, in the weather of time.
|
|
89.
|
● Survival of the fittest
|
Prov.24:16
1stCor.9:24
Gal.5:7
Heb.12:1
2ndTim.2:5
Jm.1:12
|
🚫
|
God uplifts those who follow Him.
|
|
90.
|
● Only the strong survive
|
Prov.3:5-8
Mat.16:25
1stCor.16:13
2ndCor.12:10
1stPet.4:18
|
🚫
|
Only the faithful in meekness shall survive.
|
|
91.
|
● When the going gets tough, the tough get going
|
Ps.27:1;
56:4
Prov.28:1
Gal.6:9
Heb.13:6
1stPet.3:14-15
|
🚫
|
Confidence sheds fear in the face of hardship.
|
|
92.
|
● Might makes right
|
Micah 7:16
Job 9:4;
36:5
Ec.9:10
Ps.33:16;
147:5
Prov.16:32
Jer.17:5
Dan.2:20;
4:3
Ep.3:16
1stPet.5:6
|
🚫
|
The instant power of God maintains truth.
|
|
93.
|
● Power corrupts, and absolute power
corrupts absolutely
|
Exodus 5:2
Job 24:9-10
Proverbs 10:6;
29:2
Isaiah 3:15
Matthew 8:8-10;
11:12
|
🚫
|
It is not power that necessarily corrupts,
... that is left to a souls character of heart.
|
|
94.
|
● Brain is better than brawn
|
Ps. 37:16
Prov. 16:32;
20:15
Ec. 7:5;
9:16
Ep. 5:15
|
🚫
|
The might of intelligence is in its’ quiet reflection.
|
|
95.
|
● Noble in spirit
|
Proverbs 4:18
Romans 12:11-12
Philippians 4:8
|
🚫
|
The spirit is core to one’s soul character.
|
|
96.
|
● Good Samaritan
|
Luke 10:30-37
John 4:9
|
✔
|
Brave is caring to sacrifice for strangers.
|
|
97.
|
● Honesty is the best policy
|
Psalms 15:1-4
Prov. 12:19
2nd Cor. 13:8
1st Peter 2:12
|
🚫
|
God requires honest hearts.
|
|
98.
|
● Straight as an arrow
|
Ps.5:8;
32:8
Prov.4:18,
25
Mat.7:13
Jn.14:6
Acts 13:6-10
|
🚫
|
As bingo is to a bulls-eye, so obedience is to salvation.
|
|
99.
|
● Straight and narrow
|
Matthew 7:13-14;
7:13-14 KJV
|
✔
|
It is harder to do the right thing rather than the sly.
|
|
100.
|
● One good turn (deed) deserves another
|
Jer. 32:40
Gal. 6:10
Ep. 2:10
James 4:17
|
🚫
|
We are challenged to do good always.
|
|
101.
|
● Give a little, take a little / Give and take
|
Prov. 18:24;
27:17
Ec. 4:9-10
Mark 9:50
John 15:13
|
🚫
|
Without a giving heart no love may be had.
|
|
102.
|
● Actions speak louder than words
|
1st Samuel 2:3
1st John 3:18
Col. 3:17;
3:22-24
James 1:21-25 ;
2:17
Mat. 15:8
Rom. 2:13;
14:12
2nd Corinthians 5:10
Revelation 20:12-13
|
🚫
|
In both action and word,
All that we are is in one presence.
|
|
103.
|
● You get more with sugar than salt
|
Proverbs 15:1;
15:23;
16:24;
31:26
|
🚫
|
Love commands compassion softer than demands.
|
|
104.
|
● Don’t pour salt on the wound
|
Gen.19:24-26
Prov.23:29-32
Jer.8:3-6
Lk.4:25-29
Gal.5:15
|
🚫
|
A bitting tougue lacks an understanding heart.
Men more often reject truth masked in self illusions.
|
|
105.
|
● Speak softly but carry a big stick
|
Prov. 21:22-23;
24:5;
25:15;
25:28
Ec. 9:14-16
James 4:6
|
🚫
|
Wisdom creates a conduit of quiet strength.
|
|
106.
|
● Who knows most speaks least
|
Ec. 9:17
Lam. 3:25-26
Prov. 12:23;
13:16;
15:2;
17:27;
29:11
|
🚫
|
Prudence couples wisdom.
|
|
107.
|
● One ounce of facts is worth more
than a ton of garbage
|
Ec. 5:2-3
Proverbs 10:19;
17:27
Isaiah 40:15
1st Cor. 14:19
|
🚫
|
God is.
|
|
108.
|
● To a quick question give a slow answer
|
Proverbs 13:3;
15:28;
21:23
James 1:19;
3:2
|
🚫
|
Thoughtfulness is the grace of wisdom.
|
|
109.
|
● Think twice before you speak
|
Proverbs 21:23;
25:11
Ecclesistes 5:2-3
James 1:19
|
🚫
|
Consider judgment is due for each utterance.
|
|
110.
|
● A closed mouth catches no flies
|
Proverbs 10:19;
11:12;
17:27-28;
22:3
James 1:19
|
🚫
|
A fool’s mouth eats many shoes.
|
|
111.
|
● Keep your mouth shut and your ears open
|
Proverbs 10:19;
17:27;
21:23
Ec. 7:9
James 1:19;
3:2
|
🚫
|
Listening is the highest of all character traits.
|
|
112.
|
● Lend me your ear
|
Ecclesiastes 1:8
Matthew 13:9
John 5:25;
10:3
1st Corinthians 12:16-18
Romans 10:17
James 1:22
|
🚫
|
The call of life rings out for the genuine to come.
|
|
113.
|
● Don’t throw your pearls before swine
|
Proverbs 23:9
Matthew 7:6
|
✔
|
The world devourers precious convictions of spirit.
|
|
114.
|
● Don’t blow (toot) your own trumpet (horn)
|
Deut. 8:17
Ps. 49:6-7
Prov. 20:6
Is. 5:21
Luke 18:11-14;
20:46-47
2nd Cor. 10:17-18
|
🚫
|
Arrogance tramples the self at His revealing.
|
|
115.
|
● Empty vessels make the most noise
|
Ps. 59:7;
94:4
Prov. 10:10,
19;
12:16;
13:16;
18:2;
29:11
Ecclesiastes 10:11
|
🚫
|
Chattering fools rage in the madness
of their perceived superiority.
|
|
116.
|
● A chip on your shoulder
|
Psalms 10:7
Proverbs 14:10
Jeremiah 5:23
Romans 3:14
|
🚫
|
Arrogance devourers the meek consumed in tears.
|
|
117.
|
● Holier than thou
|
Prov. 26:12
Is. 65:5
Luke 18:9-14;
20:46-47
1st John 2:16
|
✔
|
Humbility is our ability to be humble.
Pomp-pissity is self proclaiming.
|
|
118.
|
● Know it all’s
|
Jeremiah 7:8-10
Romans 2:19-24
|
🚫
|
Watch out for godless normal people,
they can be condemningly dangerous.
|
|
119.
|
● Barking dogs seldom bite
|
Ps. 64:3
Prov. 11:9;
12:18;
14:17;
18:6-7;
26:17-19
Jm. 3:10
|
🚫
|
Most attacks come from shallow holes.
|
|
120.
|
● Put up or shut up
|
Ps.12:3-4;
75:4-5
Prov.18:7;
20:6;
21:3
Mat.6:1
Jm.1:20;
1:25
|
🚫
|
Boastful actions void of God deny His Glory.
|
|
121.
|
● Quiet as a mouse
|
Prov.22:3
Amos 5:13
Luke 9:35-36
1stTim.2:1-2
1stPet.3:4
|
🚫
|
Fear halts the forthrightness of a people.
|
|
122.
|
● Cut to the chase (quick)
|
John 10:24-30;
16:25-30
Psalms 118:8-9
Ephesians 6:24
|
🚫
|
Is your faith of man or God?
|
|
123.
|
● Beating around the bush
|
1stCor.14:9
Mat.5:23-24;
23:19;
5:37
Jm.5:12
Luke 20:23
|
🚫
|
Worldly thoughts hinder directness with God.
|
|
124.
|
● Blow hot and cold
|
Mat. 5:37
2nd Cor. 1:17-18
James 5:12
Rev. 3:15-16
|
🚫
|
Life stirs the peace of pleasures to the pains of fear.
|
|
125.
|
● If you can’t say something nice,
don’t say anything at all
|
Ps. 34:13
Prov. 10:19;
13:3;
29:20
Ec. 5:2-3
Col. 4:6
Jm. 1:19;
1:26
Lk. 6:45
Mat. 15:11;
12:36-37
|
🚫
|
Words are expressions of spirit.
|
|
126.
|
● Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face
|
Proverbs 18:12,
18:21
Isaiah 5:21
Romans 1:22
|
🚫
|
A careless mouth lacks deliberate actions.
|
|
127.
|
● Sticks and stones may break my bones
but words can never hurt me
|
Numbers 24:8
Job 19:2
Psalm 59:12;
64:3-4;
109:3
|
🚫
|
Words can be the most divisive
shattering the the roots of tranquility.
|
|
128.
|
● Do as I say, not as I do
|
Matthew 23:3
|
🚫
|
The yoke hypocrites set plague all peace.
|
|
129.
|
● I was only joking
|
Proverbs 26:18-19
Ephesians 4:29;
5:4
1st Timothy 4:16
|
✔
|
No kidding God requires our humble hearts.
|
|
130.
|
● Lip service
|
Is.29:13
Mat.15:8-9;
23:3
Mk.7:6-7
Rom.16:17-18
Ep.6:6
|
✔
|
God’s word corrects the dubious claims of man.
|
|
131.
|
● Falling on deaf ears
|
Ps.58:3-5
Mat.13:14-15
Acts 28:25-27
Rom.11:8
Heb.3:15
|
✔
|
Hardened hearts pay no heed.
|
|
132.
|
● No one is as deaf as a man who will not listen
|
Jer. 6:10;
44:5;
44:16
Ezekiel 3:7
Zec. 7:11
2nd Tim. 4:4
|
🚫
|
Hateful closed minded pompous bigotry.
|
|
133.
|
● In one ear and out the other
|
Jeremiah 6:10
Psalm 10:13
2nd Timothy 3:7;
4:3-4
Acts 28:26-27
2nd Kings 18:12
Romans 1:28
|
🚫
|
Remaining purposely oblivious
does not excuse accountability to God.
|
|
134.
|
● A little bird told me
|
Ecclesiastes 10:20
Proverbs 11:13
|
🚫
|
Whispers can be heard the loudest.
|
|
135.
|
● Heard it through the grapevine
|
Proverbs 11:13;
16:28
Ecclesiastes 10:20
James 3:5-6,
8-10
|
🚫
|
Secrets are often heard faster than news.
|
|
136.
|
● Mind your own business
|
Proverbs 20:19,
26:17
1stThess. 4:11
2ndThess. 3:11
1st Timothy 5:13
1st Peter 4:15
|
✔
|
Hold your wits from afflicting others.
|
|
137.
|
● Your word is your bond
|
Ps.15:4;
34:13
Prov.19:1
Mat.5:37
Jm.5:12;
3:5-10
Col.4:6
|
🚫
|
Words are the easiest thing to misunderstand.
|
|
138.
|
● A word to the wise is sufficient
|
Proverbs 16:23
Ephesians 5:15-16
|
🚫
|
Truth opens the eyes of the wise.
|
|
139.
|
● He is not wise that is not wise for himself
|
Ps. 25:21,
51:6,
90:12
Prov. 8:5,
11:17,
19:2
James 3:17
|
🚫
|
To be wise is a lofty ideal.
|
|
140.
|
● Use it or lose it
|
Matthew 25:14-30
Luke 19:11-27
1st Timothy 4:14
|
🚫
|
God calls each of us to use and refine gifted abilities.
|
|
141.
|
● Do unto others as you would have
them do unto you
|
Matthew 7:12
Luke 6:31
|
✔
|
The Golden Rule.
|
|
142.
|
● Good news
|
1st Chronicles 16:23
Psalms 40:9;
96:2
1st Thessalonians 3:6
|
✔
|
Good news lies in the bosom of God’s calling truths.
|
|
143.
|
● A good rule of thumb
|
Leviticus 14:28-29
Psalm 19:7
Matthew 7:12
|
🚫
|
Give your heart to God’s will.
|
|
144.
|
● Thumbs up
|
Ec. 9:10
Matthew 25:21
2nd Corinthians 1:17;
10:18
|
🚫
|
Approval is the sweetest flavor of love.
|
|
145.
|
● A good name is better than riches
|
Prov. 10:7;
20:11;
22:1;
27:19
Ec. 7:1
Rev. 3:5;
20:15
|
✔
|
The character of a soul speaks their name.
|
|
146.
|
● A man is known by the company he keeps
|
Prov.12:16
1stCor.5:9-11;
15:33
2ndThess.3:14
Heb.10:24-25
|
🚫
|
Not only God sees people for who they are.
|
|
147.
|
● The tree is known by its fruit
|
Matthew 7:16-20;
12:33
Luke 6:43-44
|
✔
|
Life’s miracle juice is the fruit we bear.
|
|
148.
|
● Comparing apples to oranges
|
Isaiah 5:20
Matthew 7:17-18
|
🚫
|
We know truth can not be exchanged for a lie.
|
|
149.
|
● Who needs enemies with friends like them
|
Ps.55:21;
57:4;
62:4
Prov.25:19
Rom.16:18
2ndTim.3:1-5
|
🚫
|
Friendship stands on an accepting heart
and one’s ability not to judge or expect.
|
|
150.
|
● If you can count your friends
on one hand, you’re lucky
|
Proverbs 14:20;
17:17;
18:24;
19:4,
19:7;
27:10,
27:17
1stSam.18:1
Job 32:3
Psalm 41:9
Luke 21:16
John 15:13
|
🚫
|
Special precious treasure
are hearts closer than words.
|
|
151.
|
● Keep your friends close and your enemies closer
|
Proverbs 16:7;
25:21
Isaiah 50:8
Luke 6:27-28;
6:31-35
|
🚫
|
We are challenged to love more than we do.
|
|
152.
|
● A friend to all is a friend to none
|
Rom. 12:18
Heb. 12:14
1st Thess. 5:14
James 4:4
|
🚫
|
God calls for a spiritual nature of friendship with all.
|
|
153.
|
● A friend in need is a friend indeed
|
Ecclesiastes 4:9-10
Proverbs 18:24
John 15:13
|
🚫
|
All look for that mountain of encouragement.
|
|
154.
|
● Two heads are better than one
|
Ecclesiastes 4:9-11
|
🚫
|
Agreement is the challenge of unity.
|
|
155.
|
● In the multitude of counselors there is wisdom
|
Proverbs 4:6;
8:12-14;
11:14;
15:22;
24:6
|
✔
|
God fearing souls alone are able to give wise counsel.
|
|
156.
|
● Diamonds cut diamonds
|
Proverbs 27:17
Ecclesiastes 10:10
|
🚫
|
Only through vigilant awareness will we rise
to the occasion where strength clears our vision.
|
|
157.
|
● In unity there is strength
|
Psalms 133:1
Ep. 4:3-6;
4:13
John 17:21
Acts 2:42-45
2nd Kings 6:16
1st John 4:4
Romans 8:31
|
🚫
|
Truth is the only real strength.
|
|
158.
|
● United we stand, divided we fall
|
Amos 3:3
Mat. 12:25
1st Cor. 1:13;
3:3;
12:12;
12:25
Mal.2:10
Ep.4:4-6
Phil.1:27-28
Rom.12:4-5
2ndCor.11:3-4
|
🚫
|
Christ came to declare His church, not mans.
The One Living God will judge us all through Christ.
|
|
159.
|
● Make it or break it
|
Psalm 129:4
Proverbs 13:15
Nahum 1:7
James 2:10
|
🚫
|
Trust in the Lord or be broken defenseless.
|
|
160.
|
● We are all in the same boat
|
Prov. 22:2;
29:13
Matthew 5:45
1st Cor. 10:13
Jude 1:3
|
🚫
|
God has declared His rules and be it no other.
Of all, all of our fingers are just in different holes.
|
|
161.
|
● On the same page
|
Ep.4:4-7
Phil.2:2
1stCor.12:25
1stTim.3:15;
4:13
1stJn.1:7
|
🚫
|
Skewing pages of man tears from the truth of God.
|
|
162.
|
● Partners in crime
|
Prov. 1:10-16;
29:24
Is. 59:7-8
John 3:19
Acts 5:1-11
|
🚫
|
Double trouble those that rebel against God.
|
|
163.
|
● Crime doesn’t pay
|
1st John 3:4
Romans 6:23
Proverbs 28:13
1st Cor. 6:9-10
|
🚫
|
Masters of crime reap great material rewards;
Spiritual crimes will find no eternal favor.
|
|
164.
|
● Caught red handed
|
Psalm 10:2
Prov. 5:22;
6:17
Is. 1:15
Ez. 23:37
John 8:4
|
🚫
|
Sin has no hiding place.
|
|
165.
|
● There is no (even) honor among thieves
|
Job 24:16
Proverbs 1:18;
4:14-17;
5:22;
11:5;
21:7
John 10:10
James 3:16
|
🚫
|
The bitterness of evil has no respect.
|
|
166.
|
● Give a thief enough rope and he’ll hang himself
|
Ex. 20:15
Ps. 10:3
Prov. 1:18-19
John 10:7-11
Ep. 4:28
|
🚫
|
Without a giving heart it's just a lost taking heart.
|
|
167.
|
● Familiarity breeds contempt
|
Jeremiah 17:9
Psalm 123:3
Matthew 10:36
Deut. 5:21
Proverbs 27:4;
14:30
James 3:16
|
🚫
|
Despicable, thy name is human.
|
|
168.
|
● The straw that broke the camels back
|
James 1:14
1st Cor. 10:13
Romans 5:3-5
James 1:2-4
|
🚫
|
Do not let that of the world break your hope.
|
|
169.
|
● The last drop makes the cup run over
|
Proverbs 24:10
Jeremiah 51:46
1st Cor. 10:13
Hebrews 12:3
|
🚫
|
Endure for the world is filled with failures.
|
|
170.
|
● Failure is the path of least persistence
|
Ecclesiastes 10:15
1st Corinthians 13:2
Hebrews 12:15
|
🚫
|
Discontent consumes the peace that love awards.
|
|
171.
|
● Caught between a rock and a hard place
|
1st Samuel 14:4
Luke 18:24-25
|
🚫
|
Difficult is course to heaven and many who
desire it will choose self over sacrifice for God.
|
|
172.
|
● Walking on egg-shells
|
Isaiah 8:9
1st Peter 4:18
Hebrews 10:31
|
🚫
|
Dangerously fragile is the path without God.
|
|
173.
|
● Walking on thin ice
|
Ps.73:18
Mat.7:26-27
Jn.12:48
1st Pet.4:18
Rev.3:15-16
|
🚫
|
To ignore the word of God is condemning.
|
|
174.
|
● Walking on water
|
Matthew 14:25-31
Mark 6:48-49
John 6:19
Luke 18:27
|
✔
|
The surface of all is God.
|
|
175.
|
● Keep you head above water
|
Matthew 14:29-31
Luke 21:28
John 16:33
|
🚫
|
Optimism keeps its light lit ahead.
|
|
176.
|
● In deep water
|
Gen.1:2
Ps.18:16-17;
69:2;
124:2-5;
144:7
2nd Tim.1:8-9
|
🚫
|
He calls to us each, much deeper than this world.
|
|
177.
|
● Up the creek without a paddle
|
Psalm 22:11;
55:5;
88:6
Isaiah 50:2
Ec. 8:8
Ep. 2:12
|
🚫
|
Spirit evaporates for those not moored in the Lord.
|
|
178.
|
● Up a tree
|
Gen.2:9
Job 5:7
Ps.22:11;
143:11
Prov.13:15
Lk.19:1-6
|
🚫
|
Every trouble overcome often leads to another.
|
|
179.
|
● In a pickle
|
Jonah 2:5
2nd Corinthians 4:8-9;
7:5
|
🚫
|
Though we are tormented, God reaches out to each.
|
|
180.
|
● Woe is me
|
Job 10:15
Micah 7:1
1st Corinthians 9:16
|
✔
|
Misery is common to man.
|
|
181.
|
● Misery be mine
|
Psalm 69:20;
116:3
Ecclesiastes 1:18;
2:22-23;
8:6
|
🚫
|
Moaner, Groaner, Emotional owner.
Blaming others makes misery comfortable.
|
|
182.
|
● At wits’ end
|
Psalm 107:27
Proverbs 19:3
|
✔
|
Exasperation can tie knots twisting one’s knowing.
|
|
183.
|
● On pins and needles
|
Job 4:14
Proverbs 12:25;
24:10
Mark 4:40
2ndCorinthians 4:8-9
2ndPeter 2:8
|
🚫
|
Suffering without measure anguishes the soul.
|
|
184.
|
● Gnashing of teeth
|
Matthew 8:10-12;
13:41-42,
49-50;
22:12-13;
24:49-51;
25:30-31
Luke 13:28
2nd Peter 2:17
Jude 1:13
|
✔
|
The needles of thought pierce death’s helplessness.
|
|
185.
|
● Eat you alive
|
Lev.26:29
Deut.28:53-57
1st Sam.25:37-38
2nd Sam.24:15-17
2ndKi.6:28-29
Jer.19:9
Lam.2:20;
4:10
Ez.5:10
Acts 12:21-23
|
🚫
|
Anger, pride, and anguish reduce to a breathless spirit.
|
|
186.
|
● He doesn’t have a prayer
|
Ps. 18:41;
66:18
Prov. 15:29
Job 35:12
Jer. 7:16;
11:13-15
Mat. 6:5-7
John 9:31
|
🚫
|
Haughty faithless fools carry worthless prayers.
Prayer connects the sincere heart to eternity.
|
|
187.
|
● An angry man is not fit to pray
|
Matthew 5:22-24
2nd Cor. 12:20
1st Tim. 2:8
James 2:20
|
🚫
|
It is a continuous work to bury anger.
|
|
188.
|
● Out of the frying pan into the fire
|
Daniel 3:15-23
Revelation 2:10
1st Cor. 3:13
|
🚫
|
Eternity ignites fried truth lost or freed souls.
|
|
189.
|
● He who plays with fire will get burned
|
Deut.32:22
Job 4:8
Prov.6:27;
10:16
Ez.18:20-32;
33:18
Matthew 18:8-9
Mark 9:43-49
Romans 6:23
James 1:15
Galatians 6:7-8
1st Peter 1:3-9
Revelation 16:8-9
|
🚫
|
Not regarding God’s will invite His wrath.
|
|
190.
|
● Like a moth to a flame
|
Gen. 4:7
Prov. 6:25-26;
7:21-23
Gal. 5:16-17
James 1:13-15
|
🚫
|
Sin appeals most sweetly and delicious.
|
|
191.
|
● Curiosity killed the cat
|
1st Samuel 6:19
John 4:48
James 1:15
|
🚫
|
Desire for the profane damages the soul.
|
|
192.
|
● When the cat’s away the mice will play
|
Proverbs 15:3
Matthew 24:48-51;
25:30
Romans 1:28
|
🚫
|
Disregarding accountability defines criminality.
|
|
193.
|
● Milk it for all it’s worth
|
Phil.3:19
Col.2:18-19
1stTim.6:5
2ndTim.3:5-6
Tit.1:10-11
|
🚫
|
Many pursuits take advantage by biting on delay.
|
|
194.
|
● There’s a sucker born every minute
|
Psalm 58:3
Ecclesiastes 4:1-3;
7:1
John 3:6-8
|
🚫
|
Our gullibility capacity speaks of our desire to trust.
|
|
195.
|
● If you build it, they will come
|
Genesis 7:5-9
Nehemiah 4:6-8
|
🚫
|
Atrocities cascade across the constructions of man.
Only the innocent of heart truly hear the call.
|
|
196.
|
● A chain is only as strong as its weakest link
|
Ecclesiastes 8:11
Isaiah 26:10
1st Corinthians 12:20-26
|
🚫
|
Appalling lawlessness respects no one.
|
|
197.
|
● One broken link breaks the entire chain
|
Matthew 12:25
Romans 5:11-14
|
🚫
|
The civilization of man is immersed in corruption.
|
|
198.
|
● Built on sand
|
Matthew 7:26-27
|
✔
|
The penalty for ignoring God is emptiness.
|
|
199.
|
● A house divided can not stand
|
Matthew 12:25
2nd Kings 19:27
1st John 4:18
|
✔
|
Torments plague the unsettled.
|
|
200.
|
● Put (Get) your own house in order
|
Isaiah 38:1
Matthew 7:3-5
Luke 6:41-42
|
✔
|
Accusation comes easier than accountability.
|
|
201.
|
● So goes the family, so goes the nation
|
Psalms 133:1;
144:15
Prov. 14:34
Isaiah 25:3
Ez. 14:13-14
Hosea 4:1
Malachi 4:6
Mat. 10:36;
21:43
Rom. 13:10
|
🚫
|
Society’s void of tender intimate love
beat despair to a crying death.
|
|
202.
|
● People who live in glass houses
shouldn’t throw rocks (stones)
|
Proverbs 11:9;
18:17
Luke 6:41-42
Matthew 7:2-5;
23:27
|
🚫
|
Purging self acquires more than punishing others.
It is easier to put one down than to build one up.
|
|
203.
|
● Ivory tower
|
Lev. 19:32
Psalms 45:8
Prov. 16:31;
20:29
Song of Solomon 7:4
Amos 3:15
1st Timothy 5:1-3
|
✔
|
Civilization’s depth embraces longstanding heritage.
|
|
204.
|
● A man's home is his castle
|
Mat. 7:24-27
John 14:2-4;
23
2nd Cor. 5:1
Luke 12:15
1st Timothy 6:7
Amos 3:15
|
🚫
|
Thirst for that eternal home.
|
|
205.
|
● Home is where your heart is
|
Matthew 6:19-21
Luke 12:34
|
🚫
|
In a hearts bottom rests home.
|
|
206.
|
● Charity begins at home
|
1stJohn 4:8
Proverbs 3:33;
20:7 ;
22:6
Matthew 5:43-48;
12:25;
25:31-40
|
🚫
|
Love begins with God, then one's
enemies and strangers. Love ends at home.
|
|
207.
|
● Marriages are made in heaven
|
Matthew 19:4-9;
22:30
Mark 10:4-12;
12:25
1st Cor. 7:10-11
|
🚫
|
Marriage is ordained by God exclusively on earth.
|
|
208.
|
● A diamond is forever
|
1st Cor. 7:10-11
Matthew 5:31-32;
19:3-12
Romans 7:2-3
|
🚫
|
Marriage reflects character for eternal commitment.
|
|
209.
|
● Tie the knot
|
Mark 10:9
Ephesians 4:11-16;
5:22-33
|
🚫
|
Recognizing eternal bonds reveals God’s purpose.
|
|
210.
|
● Until death do us part
|
Gen. 2:24
Ec. 9:9
Mat. 19:4-6
Rom. 7:1-2
1st Cor. 7:39
|
🚫
|
Marriage declares the mortal union of souls.
|
|
211.
|
● For keeps
|
Ps. 33:11;
45:6;
48:14;
73:26
Ec. 3:14
Dan. 7:18
John 14:21
1st John 2:5
Hebrews 13:8
James 1:22
1st John 2:17
|
🚫
|
Nothing tangible in life endures forever,
whereas God waits for eternal awakenings.
|
|
212.
|
● Love to death
|
Prov. 18:21
Song 8:6
Mat. 26:35
Mark 14:31
Rev. 12:11
|
🚫
|
Passion's color reflects a spirits soul nature;
Love opens the lungs; an endless extent.
|
|
213.
|
● Cross my heart and hope to die
|
Numbers 30:2
2nd Kings 10:15
Ecclesiastes 10:2
|
🚫
|
A promise is only true if in sureness of heart.
No thief can steal a heart that God has healed.
|
|
214.
|
● Frailty, thy name is woman
|
Ecclesiastes 7:28
1st Peter 3:3-4,
7
|
🚫
|
If you are not loyal to one, you have none.
|
|
215.
|
● Behind every successful man is a woman
|
Prov.12:4;
31:10-11,
28
1stCor.11:7-9
Col. 3:18
1stPet.3:1-2
|
🚫
|
Grand achievements
accompany the tender mercies of a woman.
|
|
216.
|
● A woman’s work is never done
|
1st Timothy 2:9-10
Titus 2:3-5
1st Peter 3:1-4
|
🚫
|
A woman’s inspiration knows how to notably rise.
|
|
217.
|
● Spare the rod, spoil the child
|
Prov.3:11-12;
13:24;
22:15;
23:13-14;
29:15
Heb.12:4-11
|
🚫
|
Correction is a rule of God.
|
|
218.
|
● Black sheep
|
Deuteronomy 21:18-21
Exodus 21:15,
17
Job 24:13
Isaiah 53:6
Matthew 7:15;
21:28-31
|
🚫
|
There are those that live to hate and hate to live.
|
|
219.
|
● Do not wear out your welcome
|
Proverbs 25:17
|
🚫
|
Friendship’s thin line can often become annoyed.
|
|
220.
|
● Children should be seen and not heard
|
Deut.27:16
Prov.1:8;
6:20;
22:6;
29:15
Ep.6:4
1stTim.3:4
|
🚫
|
Loss of engagement cripples family life.
|
|
221.
|
● Praise the young and they will blossom
|
Deut.4:9
Ps.78:4;
127:3
Prov.19:18;
22:6
Ep.6:4
Col.3:21
|
🚫
|
Pure hearts grow nurtured by nudges of light.
|
|
222.
|
● A chip off the old block
|
Isaiah 51:1
Isaiah 64:8
1st Corinthians 10:4
|
🚫
|
One must realize spiritual origins.
|
|
223.
|
● A feather in one’s cap
|
Ps. 127:4-5
Prov. 7:1-4;
21:20
Is. 33:6
Mat. 6:21;
12:35
|
🚫
|
Grasping shards of truth enlightens the heart.
|
|
224.
|
● Through thick and thin
|
Proverbs 18:24
Ecclesiastes 12:1
|
🚫
|
No commitment is greater than forever.
|
|
225.
|
● Blood is thicker than water
|
Lev.17:11
Mat.10:34.39
1stTim.5:8
Rom.12:5
Gal.6:10
|
🚫
|
Our bond to God is through His blood.
|
|
226.
|
● Sweating blood
|
Luke 22:44
2nd Corinthians 2:4
|
🚫
|
Christ suffered in life to profess His acute love.
|
|
227.
|
● By the sweat of his brow
|
Genesis 3:19
|
✔
|
Desperately hard work is the plight of man.
|
|
228.
|
● No sweat off of my brow
|
Job 29:5-7
Isaiah 47:8-10
John 10:13
|
🚫
|
Indifference spins a shallow drain to hell.
|
|
229.
|
● No strings attached
|
Gen. 2:7
Joshua 24:15
Job 21:14;
26:7
Prov. 14:14;
16:9
Mat.11:28
Mk.8:34
Lk.11:9
John 5:40;
6:57
2ndTim.1:7
|
🚫
|
The Love of the Father does not make us His puppets.
|
|
230.
|
● Two shakes of a lamb’s tail
|
Ecclesiastes 9:11
John 10:13
Revelation 3:11
|
🚫
|
Hurriedness often compromises carefulness.
|
|
231.
|
● Busy as a bee
|
Proverbs 6:6-9
Job 12:7
Ephesians 5:15-17
|
🚫
|
Do not abandon your efforts to know God.
|
|
232.
|
● Haste makes waste
|
Proverbs 21:5
1st Corinthians 15:58
Luke 8:15
|
🚫
|
All things done well employ care.
|
|
233.
|
● Waste not, want not
|
Ps. 23:1;
34:9
Prov. 13:25;
23:12
Mat. 19:17
Mark 4:24-25
Ep.5:14-18
1stCor.5:8
1stPet.1:7
2ndPet.3:14
James 2:20
|
🚫
|
Wanting as the Lord returns delivers those empty.
The opportunity to be filled is at hand!
|
|
234.
|
● He who hesitates is lost
|
1st Kings 18:21
Luke 9:61-62
1st Thess. 5:2-3
James 1:6
|
🚫
|
Indecision leaves true purpose lacking.
|
|
235.
|
● Opportunity seldom knocks twice
|
Is. 44:22
Mat. 25:1-13,
24:42
Acts 8:21-22
Heb. 9:27
|
🚫
|
The Lord’s patience for folly will end.
|
|
236.
|
● Caution is the better part of valor
|
Psalm 27:14
Proverbs 24:27
Luke 14:28-30
|
🚫
|
It takes courage to have patience.
|
|
237.
|
● Hold your horses
|
Genesis 4:7
Proverbs 13:3;
16:32
James 3:2
|
🚫
|
Patience unites a soul with the divine.
|
|
238.
|
● Discretion is the better part of valor
|
Psalm 112:5
Proverbs 2:11;
3:21;
8:12;
19:11
|
🚫
|
Careful planning avoids cowardice.
|
|
239.
|
● A stitch in time saves nine
|
Proverbs 10:4;
22:3
Matthew 25:10
Ephesians 5:15-16
|
🚫
|
Delaying what you are able to do magnifies troubles.
|
|
240.
|
● An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
|
Matthew 25:1-13
Luke 16:10
2nd Timothy 4:5
|
🚫
|
One not ready is left in the cold (dark).
|
|
241.
|
● An apple a day keeps the doctor away
|
Psalm 147:3
Proverbs 7:2;
17:22
1st Cor. 8:8
Romans 14:17
|
🚫
|
True sustenance is divine union.
|
|
242.
|
● Little by little does the trick
|
Ex. 23:30
Deut. 7:22
1st Cor. 15:58
Gal. 6:9
Heb. 10:36
|
🚫
|
The soul is refined by adherence to details of spirit.
|
|
243.
|
● A rising tide lifts all boats
|
Psalms 49:2;
61:2
Proverbs 18:10
Luke 21:25-28
|
🚫
|
Inspiration pushes forward passing fears left behind.
|
|
244.
|
● Time and tide wait for no man
|
Psalm 144:4
Hebrews 9:27;
4:13
|
🚫
|
The eventuality of meeting God is certain.
|
|
245.
|
● Desperate times call for desperate measures
|
Ps. 32:10
Prov. 14:34
Ez. 14:13-14
Nahum 3:1
Ep. 6:12
|
🚫
|
Unless we return to God, the nation is lost.
|
|
246.
|
● Signs of the times
|
Mat. 16:3;
24:30-31,
37-39
Mark 13:4,
33
Luke 17:26-30
2nd Timothy 3:1-5,
4:2
Revelation 1:7
|
✔
|
The events of His imminent return have been given.
Each heart will bow before His life given for us all.
|
|
247.
|
● An outward sign of an inward act (change)
|
Luke 24:46-47
Mark 1:8
John 3:5
Acts 2:36-38;
3:19-21
Romans 2:28-29;
6:23
2nd Cor. 4:16;
10:7
1st Peter 3:21
|
🚫
|
Come to yourself aware of God's word. An inward
change produces true outward acts of faith. Only
baptism seals the bond with the gift of the promise.
|
|
248.
|
● Do not (never) put off until tomorrow
what you can do today
|
Matthew 25:10
2nd Corinthinas 6:2
Ephesians 4:21-24;
5:15-16
Hebrews 3:12-15
|
🚫
|
Actions are measured in time.
|
|
249.
|
● Today is the first day of the rest of your life
|
Deut. 30:15
Psalms 118:24
2nd Cor. 6:2
Hebrews 3:13
|
🚫
|
Each moment is a choice of heart.
|
|
250.
|
● Procrastination is the thief of time
|
Ecclesiastes 9:10
2nd Peter 3:10-12
Ephesians 5:15-16
2nd Corinthians 6:2
Revelation. 3:3;
16:15
Matthew 25:10
|
🚫
|
It is dangerous to avoid responsibility.
|
|
251.
|
● Half-hearted
|
Job 36:21
2nd Chron. 25:2
Psalm 66:18
Proverbs 14:14
Mat. 13:20-21
Mark 4:16-17
Acts 5:3
Jm.4:8
Rev. 3:15-16
|
🚫
|
Succumbing to sin is an easier slide
than suffering restraint’s uphill climb.
|
|
252.
|
● Don't let any grass grow under your feet
|
Ecclesiastes 9:10;
10:18
Proverbs 6:6;
24:30-34;
28:19
Ephesians 5:15-16
Philippians 3:13-14
|
🚫
|
Climb the staircase to eternity.
|
|
253.
|
● A rolling stone gathers no moss
|
Proverbs 6:6-9;
28:19;
19:15;
26:27
Luke 9:62
|
🚫
|
Flee evil for it will return to itself.
|
|
254.
|
● Burn the midnight oil
|
Psalms 119:62
Matthew 25:1-13
Acts 20:7
2nd Timothy 4:2
|
🚫
|
Attentiveness is awareness’s passion to patiently know.
|
|
255.
|
● Burning the candle at both ends
|
Ecclesiastes 9:10;
11:6
Matthew 25:1-13
|
🚫
|
Pursuit of purpose inspires life beyond measure.
|
|
256.
|
● Keep your nose to the grindstone
|
Lamentations 5:13
Luke 9:62;
20:17-18
|
🚫
|
Though heavy, one needs determination to find truth.
|
|
257.
|
● The grindstone of life polishes character
|
Prov.6:6-8
Ec.9:10;
11:6
Rom.12:11
1st Cor.15:58
Col. 3:23
|
🚫
|
Focus is what drives success.
|
|
258.
|
● The squeaky wheel gets the grease
|
Psalm 34:15
Luke 11:5-8
1st John 5:14-15
|
🚫
|
Persistence is the ladder to success.
|
|
259.
|
● The nail that sticks up will be hammered down
|
Isaiah 2:12
Luke 11:5-8
|
🚫
|
Humble visible persistance is rewarded with results.
|
|
260.
|
● Nothing ventured, nothing gained
|
Proverbs 22:13
James 4:13-17
1st Timothy 6:6
|
🚫
|
God's rewards are without equal.
|
|
261.
|
● No time like the present
|
Ephesians 5:15-16
2nd Corinthians 6:2
|
🚫
|
Action is a condition of Now.
|
|
262.
|
● Live for today
|
Mat. 6:30-34
2nd Cor. 6:2
Heb. 3:13
Psalms 118:22-24
|
🚫
|
Yesterday’s toil is today’s ongoing triumph.
|
|
263.
|
● Just taking it one day at a time
|
Proverbs 27:1
Matthew 6:34
James 4:13-15
|
🚫
|
Chasing survival from sunrise to sunset.
|
|
264.
|
● The early bird catches the worm
|
Matthew 6:33;
20:1-16
Ephesians 5:15-16
|
🚫
|
No matter the time, catch on to God.
|
|
265.
|
● Leave (He left) no stone unturned
|
Prov.12:27;
22:29
Col.3:23
Ep.6:6
Heb.11:6
2nd Tim.2-15
|
🚫
|
Passion for excellence draws success.
|
|
266.
|
● Strike while the iron is hot
|
1st Tim. 4:2
Ec. 9:10
2nd Cor. 6:2
Rev. 22:17
|
🚫
|
Sin strikes blindness, come to repentance.
|
|
267.
|
● Keep on your toes
|
Col. 4:6
Titus 3:8
Heb. 13:16
2nd Tim. 4:2
1st Pet. 3:15
|
🚫
|
Accepting truth wards off denial’s devouring.
Reality touches the fringe of awareness’ introspection.
|
|
268.
|
● Get your ducks in a row (lined up)
|
Proverbs 24:27
Luke 14:28-29
|
🚫
|
Order establishes sound thoughts.
|
|
269.
|
● Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man
healthy, wealthy, and wise
|
Proverbs 6:9;
12:11;
20:13
|
🚫
|
Sleep is an annoying reminder of death.
|
|
270.
|
● The cream of the crop
|
Exodus 22:29-30
Numbers 18:12
Leviticus 22:21
Proverbs 3:9
|
🚫
|
Offer the best that you are to the Lord.
|
|
271.
|
● Sweet as honey
|
Psalm 119:103
Proverbs 24:13
Revelation 10:9
|
✔
|
Nests are uncovered to reveal good or bad truth.
Heaven drips pathways colored with honey.
|
|
272.
|
● You are what you eat
|
Ps. 22:26
Ec. 2:24
Is. 55:2
Mat. 6:11;
6:25
1st Tim. 4:7-8
|
🚫
|
Spiritual sustenance supersedes the material.
|
|
273.
|
● The way to a man's heart is through his stomach
|
Prov. 13:25;
18:20
Mark 7:18-22
Luke 4:4;
12:23
Romans 14:7
1st Cor. 6:13
Phil. 3:19
|
🚫
|
The heart of man returns to God humbled.
|
|
274.
|
● The belly has no ears
|
Prov. 15:17
Luke 4:4
John 4:24
1st Cor. 11:18-22,
24-30
Romans 14:17;
16:18
Phil. 3:19
|
🚫
|
Worship near to God in spirit open without expectation
rapt in gratitude for His mercy to redeem such as us.
|
|
275.
|
● Putting it in a nutshell
|
Titus 2:11-14
|
🚫
|
God calls to each soul to return to Him.
|
|
276.
|
● Eat drink and be merry
|
Proverbs 20:1
Ecclesiastes 2:24;
5:18;
8:15;
9:7
|
✔
|
Engaging meals are most preciously illuminating.
|
|
277.
|
● Make a man a fire, he'll be warm for a day -
Teach him to make a fire, he'll be warm forever
|
Proverbs 19:20;
22:6
Isaiah 40:14
1st Thessalonians 4:11
|
🚫
|
Blessed are those who use understanding
as a means for living.
|
|
278.
|
● Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day -
Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever
|
1st Cor. 3:1-3
Luke 6:40
Hebrews 5:12-14
1st Peter 2:2
|
🚫
|
Search out your own salvation.
To know Him is to want Him.
|
|
279.
|
● Man does not live by bread alone
|
Deut. 8:3
Matthew 4:4
Luke 4:4
John 6:27,
51,
58
|
✔
|
We each need to digest the life of Jesus.
|
|
280.
|
● Health is better than wealth
|
Prov.3:7-8;
4:20-22;
13:7
Lk.12:20-21
1stTim.4:8
3rdJn.1:2
|
🚫
|
Without spiritual health life's value is sickening.
|
|
281.
|
● In the melting pot
|
Micah 3:2-3
Proverbs 17:3;
27:21
|
🚫
|
God waits for the noble birth of a soul’s character.
|
|
282.
|
● Too many cooks spoil the broth
|
Matthew 24:5;
24:11-13
Acts 20:29
1st Timothy 4:1-3
|
🚫
|
The ingredient of truth can be spoiled by self-seekers.
|
|
283.
|
● From feast to famine
|
Genesis 41:29-30
Isaiah 3:1
Ezekiel 14:13
|
🚫
|
Trouble, trouble, thy name is misery.
|
|
284.
|
● A feast for sore eyes
|
Psalm 13:3;
17:15
Proverbs 15:17
Matthew 6:22
Luke 18:42
Revelation 1:7;
7:17
|
🚫
|
Faith is best served with certainty.
|
|
285.
|
● One man's meat is another man's poison
|
1st Corinthians 8:8-9,
13
Romans 14:21
|
🚫
|
Resentment’s seed blossoms from
an insecure jealous accusing heart.
|
|
286.
|
● One man’s loss is another man’s gain
|
Num. 31:32-35
Habakkuk 2:7
Job 3:20-21
Phil. 1:21;
3:7-8
|
🚫
|
There is no gain in the loss of another.
|
|
287.
|
● Finders keepers, losers weepers
|
Proverbs 8:17
Luke 13:23-28
Acts 17:24-31
|
🚫
|
Find God or be left treasure-less.
|
|
288.
|
● It is more blessed to give than to receive
|
Acts 20:35
Mat. 5:7
James 2:13
Mark 10:21
Heb. 13:16
1st John 3:17
Luke 6:34-36
1st Peter 5:5
|
✔
|
It can be hard to receive what one has
been given. Give of yourself is the message.
|
|
289.
|
● The best things in life are free
|
Job 28:12-20;
32:8
Proverbs 3:13-17
Gal. 5:22-23
Eph.5:9;
3:17-19;
2:8-10
Is.55:1-2
Jn.4:14
1st Pet.3:4
|
🚫
|
Truth has value above cost.
Colors are a gift without charge.
|
|
290.
|
● The best things come in small packages
|
Job 12:11
Proverbs 19:6
1stCorinthians 12:4;
14:1
1st Peter 4:10
Hebrews 11:27
|
🚫
|
The best things are taken for granted and yet
a more excellent way is of that which is unseen.
|
|
291.
|
● The best us yet to come
|
1st Cor. 12:31;
14:1
2nd Cor. 12:2-5
Revelation 2:7
|
🚫
|
The heart of wisdom delivers
understanding above knowledge.
|
|
292.
|
● Money can't buy the best things in life
|
Job 28:12-15
Proverbs 8:14-19
Isaiah 55:1-2
Luke 12:15
|
🚫
|
A heart’s brilliance is but a priceless breath.
|
|
293.
|
● You can't buy happiness
|
Acts 8:20
Romans 14:17
Acts 3:6
|
🚫
|
True happiness transcends mortality.
|
|
294.
|
● A stone's throw away
|
Psalm 145:18
Luke 22:41
Romans 10:8
James 4:8
|
🚫
|
Closer is God than our own understanding.
|
|
295.
|
● The grass is greener
on the other side of the fence
|
1st Kings 18:5
Jer. 14:5-6
Psalm 59:15
Proverbs 1:19
|
🚫
|
Looking for more afar
misses that which is underfoot.
|
|
296.
|
● If you’re not content with what
you have right now, you never will be
|
Luke 12:15
Philippians 4:11
1st Timothy 6:8
Hebrews 13:5
|
🚫
|
A content spirit of love
heals even the greatest of fools.
|
|
297.
|
● Blessed is he who expects nothing,
for he shall never be disappointed
|
Psalm 25:3;
146:3
Proverbs 10:28
Luke 6:34-37
Romans 8:25
|
🚫
|
Eagerly helping others is our path to heaven.
|
|
298.
|
● Eternally grateful
|
Psalms 79:13
Ep. 5:20
1st Thess. 5:16-18
Col. 3:17
|
🚫
|
The well of peace dwells in the tower of thankfulness.
|
|
299.
|
● Be thankful for what you’ve got
|
Luke 3:14
Phil. 4:11
1st Tim. 6:8
Hebrews 13:5
Col. 3:15
|
🚫
|
Thankfulness is key to peace of mind.
|
|
300.
|
● Never satisfied
|
Psalm 59:15
Prov. 17:24;
27:20;
30:15-16
Ec. 5:10
Isaiah 55:2;
56:11
Luke 7:31-35
1st Timothy 6:9
|
✔
|
Such an escape, satisfaction in its’ brief encounters.
|
|
301.
|
● The more you get the more you want
|
Ecclesiastes 5:10
Isaiah 56:11
Luke 12:15
Ephesians 4:19
|
🚫
|
Endless desires to possess deepens shallow returns.
|
|
302.
|
● Money is the root of all evil
|
1st Tim. 6:9-10
Ec. 5:10;
7:12;
10:19
Rev. 3:17
|
🚫
|
Not to Love God first is the root of all evil.
|
|
303.
|
● A fool and his money are soon parted
|
Proverbs 14:18;
21:20;
23:5;
26:12
|
🚫
|
Not only fools lose money quickly.
|
|
304.
|
● Buyer beware
|
Deuteronomy. 25:13-16
Proverbs 11:1,
18;
20:23
Isaiah 21:2
Hosea 12:7
Micah 6:11
|
🚫
|
Shrewd cheaters lay in wait
feasting on every corner.
|
|
305.
|
● Easy come, easy go
|
Gen. 3:19
Prov. 13:22;
21:17;
23:5;
27:24
Hebrews 10:26-27
|
🚫
|
The gift of true spirit slips from the insincere.
|
|
306.
|
● Save it for a rainy day
|
Gen. 41:35-36
Ec. 11:6
Mat. 6:19-20
Heb. 11:7
Jm. 1:21
|
🚫
|
Gathering spiritual strength will bear out
over what comes vainly to all departing living dust.
|
|
307.
|
● Time is money
|
Psalm 49:10
Proverbs 11:4
Luke 19:23
|
🚫
|
Time's true value will reveal wealth beyond cost.
|
|
308.
|
● Money talks
|
Ecclesiastes 7:12;
10:19
Psalms 49:6-7
Acts 8:20
|
🚫
|
Money solves countless troubles
~ yet fails to purchase life.
|
|
309.
|
● Money is a good servant, but a bad master
|
Ecclesiastes 7:12;
10:19
Luke 12:15
1st Timothy 6:10
|
🚫
|
Money blesses the thankful soul and curses the monger.
|
|
310.
|
● The quickest way to lose a friend
is to lend him money
|
Ps.37:26
Prov.6:1-3;
17:18
Mat.5:42
Luke 6:30-36
|
🚫
|
Mercy triumphs over possession.
|
|
311.
|
● Money doesn't grow on trees
|
Prov.23:4-5
Ec.4:6;
5:10,
12-14
Acts 8:20
2ndThess.3:10
|
🚫
|
No one is rich where greed tramples the poor.
|
|
312.
|
● Riches have wings
|
Proverbs 23:5
Ec. 2:18-19
Luke 12:34
1st Tim. 6:7
|
✔
|
Infinite wealth freely holds an eternal spark of life.
|
|
313.
|
● Don't count your chickens before they hatch
|
Luke 12:16-21
Is. 56:11
Job 1:21
1st Tim. 6:7
Col. 3:5
|
🚫
|
Uncontrolled passion to possess leaves one empty.
|
|
314.
|
● Don't put all your eggs in one basket
|
Ps. 119:36
Luke 12:15-21
2nd Peter 2:14
John 3:31
|
🚫
|
Spiritual investments rise beyond the earth.
|
|
315.
|
● A nest egg
|
Psalm 39:6;
73:12
Matthew 6:19-20
Luke 9:58
James 1:11
|
🚫
|
The chicken came before the egg, DNA before protein,
God came before man; Find that in Him is all treasure.
|
|
316.
|
● A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
|
Proverbs 15:16-17
Ecclesiastes 4:6;
9:4
Matthew 6:34
|
🚫
|
Possess what you have.
|
|
317.
|
● Kill two birds with one stone
|
Acts 18:4
Philippians 4:12
Titus 1:9
|
🚫
|
One’s thrust must be larger than one single fear.
|
|
318.
|
● Don't put the cart before the horse
|
Proverbs 28:22
Luke 14:28-30
|
🚫
|
Foundation builds surety.
|
|
319.
|
● You can lead a horse to water
but you can't make it drink
|
Ps. 32:9
Luke 13:15
Acts 24:24-25
Luke 16:31
John 12:42
Ex. 32:9
Isaiah 29:13
Zechariah 7:11
|
🚫
|
Stubborn hearts remain alone.
|
|
320.
|
● Don't look a gift horse in the mouth
|
Exodus 20:20
John 3:16
Romans 11:29
2nd Cor. 9:7
|
🚫
|
God has given us the truth of living.
|
|
321.
|
● Smart as a horse
|
Isaiah 1:3
Psalms 32:9
Psalms 33:17
|
🚫
|
Knowledge does not declare intelligence.
|
|
322.
|
● Stubborn as a mule
|
Psalm 32:9
|
🚫
|
Ignorance and opinion can lead one astray.
|
|
323.
|
● Dumb as an ox
|
Exodus 21:28-34
Psalms 32:9
|
🚫
|
Sporadic impulse births chaos.
|
|
324.
|
● A penny wise and a pound foolish
|
Ec 4:8;
5:13
Prov. 11:24,
26;
13:7
Mat. 6:19-21
|
🚫
|
Hoarding makes the meek suffer.
|
|
325.
|
● Rob Peter to pay Paul
|
2nd Corinthians 11:8-9
Phil. 4:15-17
Ep. 4:28
|
🚫
|
There is no honor in cheating the truth.
|
|
326.
|
● Fleecing the flock
|
Mic.3:5
Mat.7:15
Acts 20:29-30
Rom.16:17-18
2ndPet.2:1-3
|
🚫
|
Greedy cowards lack strength of merciful character.
|
|
327.
|
● He who pays the piper calls the tunes
|
Proverbs 22:7
Matthew 10:24;
20:25-26
|
🚫
|
The Creator designed love as payment.
|
|
328.
|
● He that wills the end wills the means
|
Proverbs 3:5-6;
27:18
Jeremiah 29:13
|
🚫
|
Waiting is God’s creation to redeem souls.
|
|
329.
|
● The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world
|
Psalm 102:25
Prov. 8:15-16;
22:7
Ep. 6:12
Romans 13:1
|
🚫
|
God’s patience is supreme.
|
|
330.
|
● The upper hand
|
Exodus 17:11
|
🚫
|
Strength can only be handed out by God.
People joining together overwhelms those divided.
|
|
331.
|
● Neither a borrower nor a lender be
|
Exodus 22:25
Deuteronomy 28:12
Psalm 15:5
Matthew 5:42
Acts 3:6
Rom. 8:12-13
1st Timothy 6:17-19
|
🚫
|
We are all indebted to our Lord Creator
for the granting of independent sparks of life.
|
|
332.
|
● Worry is the interest paid
by those who borrow trouble
|
Ps.88:3-7;
143:3-4
Mat.6:25,
34
Mark 4:19
Luke 10:40-42
|
🚫
|
Worries trouble is a faithless heart.
|
|
333.
|
● There are two sides to a coin
|
Prov. 14:12;
18:17;
21:2
1st Kings 3:23-27
Mat. 22:21
|
🚫
|
Right and wrong, biased by us, judged by God.
|
|
334.
|
● Two sides to every story
|
Proverbs 18:17
|
🚫
|
Simple truth is more often obscured by one.
|
|
335.
|
● If it's not one thing it's another
|
Gen. 8:22
Rom. 5:3-4
Mat. 5:11-12
James 3:16
|
🚫
|
We live in a universe of constant change.
|
|
336.
|
● Like looking for a needle in a haystack
|
Proverbs 3:13-15
Luke 13:24
Matthew 7:13-14;
13:45-46
|
🚫
|
We all search for the chord of truth.
|
|
337.
|
● Stop, look and listen
|
Job 42:5
Isaiah 42:18;
44:18
Mark 13:33-37
Matthew 13:14-17
1stCorinthians 16:13
|
🚫
|
God is patiently waiting in front of us all.
|
|
338.
|
● Look before you leap
|
Proverbs 4:25-27
Matthew 6:33;
7:15
1st John 4:1
Col. 2:8
Luke 12:15
2nd Peter 3:17
Ephesians 5:17
|
🚫
|
Understanding and abiding in God's will
keeps one safe from pursuing mistakes.
|
|
339.
|
● Take a flying leap
|
Matthew 4:5-7
Luke 6:22-23
|
🚫
|
Though tempted and rejected, rejoice in God.
|
|
340.
|
● Leap of faith
|
Genesis 22:9-12
1st Samuel 17:45-49
Daniel 6:16
Matthew 4:19;
8:8;
14:29-30
Luke 1:41-44
Hebrews 11:1
|
🚫
|
Faith is always something more than self; A belief
establishing certainty without apparent cause.
|
|
341.
|
● Leap for joy
|
Luke 1:44
Luke 6:22-23
|
✔
|
God over man reaps endless joy.
|
|
342.
|
● Happy as a clam
|
Ps. 97:11;
126:3;
144:13-15;
146:5
Prov. 15:13;
15:15;
17:22
Isaiah 29:19
John 15:11
Acts 3:6-8
Romans 14:17,
22
|
🚫
|
Peace reaches from inside when joy subdues misery.
|
|
343.
|
● Laughter is the shortest distance
between two people
|
Proverbs 14:13;
17:22
Ecclesiastes 7:3,
6
|
🚫
|
Sorrow draws from the deepest corners of a soul.
|
|
344.
|
● Laughter is the best medicine
|
Proverbs 17:22
|
🚫
|
Abounding joy fills the soul with healing light.
|
|
345.
|
● Patience is the best medicine
|
Mat.24:13
2nd Pet.1:6
Rom.5:3-4
Gal.6:9
Jas.1:2-4;
5:7-8
|
🚫
|
Waiting is a two way street.
|
|
346.
|
● All (good) things come to he who waits
|
Ps.27:14;
62:5
Prov.27:18
Ec.9:2-3
Mat.24:13
Heb.3:6
|
🚫
|
All wait for life’s immortal emancipation.
|
|
347.
|
● To the bitter end
|
Prov.14:10
Mat.24:13
Heb.3:6-8;
11:27;
12:14-15
Jm.5:11
|
🚫
|
Let bitterness end or it will be the end of you.
|
|
348.
|
● Patience of Job
|
James 5:11
Ecclesiastes 7:8
|
✔
|
We wait for eternal life, awake in no pain.
|
|
349.
|
● Patience is a virtue
|
Galatians 6:9
1st Peter 2:20
2nd Peter 1:5-8
Luke 8:15
James 1:2-4
1st Tim. 6:11
Phil. 4:8
|
🚫
|
God sees patience as a noble quality.
|
|
350.
|
● Virtue is its own reward
|
Job 34:10-11
Prov. 10:2;
11:18
Ec. 9:5
Mat. 16:27
1st Cor. 3:14
Ep. 2:10
Phil. 4:8
Rev. 22:12
|
🚫
|
There is no reward without virtue.
|
|
351.
|
● Go the extra mile
|
Matthew 5:41
|
✔
|
Passion to please others has
rewards beyond the ordinary.
|
|
352.
|
● Hair-raising
|
Job 4:15
|
🚫
|
The essence of spirit rises to be real or not.
|
|
353.
|
● Out of the blue
|
Genesis 19:24
2nd Kings 2:11
Job 22:12;
38:8-13
Psalms 135:7
Amos 9:6
Nahum 1:3
Acts 22:6
|
🚫
|
God's colors rain past our perception.
|
|
354.
|
● Pushing the envelope
|
Psalm 139:6
Proverbs 13:19
2nd Cor. 8:3
|
🚫
|
Reaching beyond ability advances true greatness.
|
|
355.
|
● Over the top
|
Deut.4:39
Ps.40:5;
62:11
Mark 7:37
John 21:25
Col.1:15
|
🚫
|
God will lift us beyond the top of the sky.
|
|
356.
|
● Go out on a limb
|
Matthew 13:31-32
Luke 19:2-6
|
🚫
|
The inspiration to extend faith always plows surprise.
|
|
357.
|
● If at first you don't succeed try again
|
Rom. 3:23
Jm. 1:2;
5:16
Lk. 9:62;
17:3-4
Phil. 2:16
|
🚫
|
Endure the eternal climb of life.
|
|
358.
|
● O ye, of little faith
|
Matthew 6:30;
8:26;
14:31;
16:8
Luke 12:27-28
|
✔
|
Excuse has no champion.
|
|
359.
|
● You never know what you can do till you try
|
Job 23:10
Psalms 18:32;
26:2
Rom. 8:13;
12:2
James 5:11
|
🚫
|
Remaining subjugated
steals the strength of independence.
|
|
360.
|
● Whatever is worth doing at all
is worth doing well
|
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Romans 12:11
Colossians 3:23
|
🚫
|
Doing with all your might is right.
|
|
361.
|
● If you want a thing done right, do it yourself
|
2nd Corinthians 6:17-18;
7:1
James 4:17
1st John 3:3
|
🚫
|
Only selflessness establishes one’s heart excellence.
|
|
362.
|
● You have to crawl before you can walk
|
Ps.86:11;
131:2
Prov.2:20;
3:23
Mat.18:3
1stCor.3:2-3;
7:17;
13:11;
14:20
Ep.5:15-17
Rom.6:4
2ndCor.5:7
1stThess.4:1
1stPet.2:2
Heb.5:12-13
2ndJohn 1:6
Jm.4:8
|
🚫
|
Open hearts render time to grow.
Knowledge of Him brings understanding.
Wisdom is our courageous ability to apply His truths.
|
|
363.
|
● Learn to walk before you run
|
John 15:4-5
Ephesians 2:10
1st Cor. 9:24-26
Hebrews 12:1
|
🚫
|
Actions through knowledge confirm genuineness.
|
|
364.
|
● One step forward, two steps backward
|
Ps.81:11-12
Prov.16:9
Jer.7:24;
10:23
Hos.2:7
Luke 14:30
|
🚫
|
There is no path without the Lord’s direction.
|
|
365.
|
● Life has its little ups and downs
|
Psalm 30:5;
90:6
Proverbs 14:13
Ecclesiastes 3:3
Luke 6:21
|
🚫
|
Joy is genuine sorrow that it may not last.
|
|
366.
|
● Variety is the spice of life
|
1st Cor. 12:5-6;
14:10;
15:41
Ps. 147:4
Luke 12:7
Mat. 13:47
|
🚫
|
Wonderfully diversity is the eternal nature of God.
|
|
367.
|
● Take it with a grain of salt
|
Luke 12:29
Philippians 4:6
1st Peter 5:7
|
🚫
|
Go with what God has given.
|
|
368.
|
● Salt of the Earth
|
Matthew 5:13
Mark 9:50
Luke 14:34-35
|
✔
|
Spirit must have spice (flavor) for life!
|
|
369.
|
● Practice makes perfect
|
Isaiah 28:10
James 1:25
1st John 3:10;
4:18
1st Peter 5:10
Hebrews 3:12-14
|
🚫
|
Extreme effort highlights excellence.
Supportive patterns are established benefiting all.
|
|
370.
|
● Jack of all trades, master of none
|
1st Chronicles 22:15
Proverbs 26:10
Ecclesiastes 2:20
|
🚫
|
Ever expanding capabilities can challenge focus.
|
|
371.
|
● Bigger is better
|
Numbers 26:54
James 3:4
Luke 12:16-21
|
🚫
|
Often the smallest part has the biggest value.
|
|
372.
|
● Bigger (larger) than life
|
Gen.28:12
Ps.31:19;
145:3;
147:4-5
Mat.18:4;
20:26
Tit.1:2
|
🚫
|
God is greater than His creation.
|
|
373.
|
● Less is more
|
Prov.16:19;
25:7
Mat.18:4
Rom.12:3,
16
Phil.2:3
Heb.13:5
|
🚫
|
Observers see simply beauty in all.
|
|
374.
|
● Don’t give up the ship
|
Acts 27:31
James 5:11
Galatians 6:9
Revelation 3:11
1st Cor. 15:58
Phil. 3:13-14
James 5:7
|
🚫
|
The voyage home is won holding fast.
|
|
375.
|
● One day my ship will come in
|
Romans 8:25
2nd Corinthians 4:18
Hebrews 11:1
|
🚫
|
Hope maintains unending assurance.
|
|
376.
|
● Either you sink or you swim
|
Psalms 69:14-15
Matthew 24:13
Acts 27:43-44
|
🚫
|
Confronting trials hones individual strength.
|
|
377.
|
● Fighting by tooth and nail
|
Psalm 56:2;
57:4
1st Corinthians 4:12
2nd Corinthians 1:8
|
🚫
|
Terrified by assaulting torrents, flesh clings on.
|
|
378.
|
● Hitting the nail on the head
|
Ec. 12:11
Prov. 29:18
1st Thess. 1:8-10
1st Timothy 4:13
|
🚫
|
Nothing can substitute for our One true living God.
|
|
379.
|
● The root of the matter
|
Job 19:28
John 1:1-3
Romans 11:16-18
|
✔
|
Do not deny God is the source of all.
|
|
380.
|
● Stand your ground
|
Judges 7:21
Job 41:33
Ps. 62:6
Jer. 17:7-8
1st Cor. 16:13
Ep. 6:10-18
Heb. 13:5-6
Acts 27:25
Rev. 3:11
|
🚫
|
Unwavering trust delivers fearless courage.
|
|
381.
|
● Common ground
|
Genesis 3:19
Psalm 44:25
Proverbs 22:2
Matthew 5:45
|
🚫
|
God will see each of us for who we are.
|
|
382.
|
● Hallowed ground
|
Exodus 3:5
Joshua 5:15
Ezekiel 36:23
Acts 7:33
|
✔
|
Holy is all holding Him in the presence of God.
|
|
383.
|
● Land of the free
|
Ezekiel 14:13-14,
20
John 8:32,
36
Roman 6:6-7;
8:2
Galatians 5:1
James 1:25
1stPeter 2:16
|
🚫
|
When those that expect freedom ignore decency,
freedom reduces to the tyrannical lost.
|
|
384.
|
● Bloom where you are planted
|
Jer. 17:7-8
1st Pet. 1:24
Psalms 103:15-16;
16:8-9
Isaiah 40:5-8
Joshua 24:15
Mat. 13:52
1st Cor.7:17
|
🚫
|
Be planted in the Lord throughout all your seasons.
|
|
385.
|
● Tall oaks from little acorns grow
|
Ec.12:1-5
1st Cor.13:11
Mark 4:31-32
Luke 13:18-19
|
🚫
|
Effort over time equates to accomplishment.
|
|
386.
|
● From small beginnings come great things
|
Gen.1:3
Prov.4:18
Ec.11:5
Mat.12:31-32;
17:20
1stPet.2:2
|
🚫
|
The origin of all began with His Word.
|
|
387.
|
● If (where) there is a will, there is a way
|
Ps.1:6;
119:27
Prov.9:6;
10:17;
15:24;
21:16
1stChron.28:9
Mat.7:13-14
John 4:34
2ndCor.8:12
|
🚫
|
The way will only be what the Lord allows.
|
|
388.
|
● Will power
|
Ecclesiastes 8:8
Matthew 26:41
John 5:30;
6:63
Luke 4:14
Romans 9:16
1st Thess. 5:19
2nd Tim. 1:7
James 1:12
|
🚫
|
Synonymous with will power is force of spirit.
Actions of spirit are shown in the nature of character.
|
|
389.
|
● Faith will move mountains
|
Matthew 17:20;
21:21
Mark 11:23
James 1:6
|
🚫
|
The misery of doubt curtails excellence beyond self.
All hold the sky in their hand.
|
|
390.
|
● Nothing worth having comes easy
|
Jg. 8:4
Ps. 128:2
Mat. 24:13
1stCor. 9:24-26
2ndCor. 4:8-10
Galatians 6:9
Phil. 3:13-14
Hebrews 12:1-3
1st Peter 5:10
|
🚫
|
Eternal life is seized by the excellence of character
in pursuit of obedience to observe His pure will.
|
|
391.
|
● Respect has to be earned
|
Heb. 12:9
Is. 42:5
Luke 19:11-27
Prov. 15:33
Rom. 2:10
|
🚫
|
Those who do not earn God’s respect shall perish.
|
|
392.
|
● As white as snow
|
Numbers 12:10
2nd Kings 5:27
Isaiah 1:18
Daniel 7:9
Matthew 28:3
Mark 9:3
Revelation 1:14
|
✔
|
The light of God will heal us in fearless judgment.
|
|
393.
|
● Beauty is only skin deep
|
Proverbs 31:30
1st Samuel 16:7
2nd Corinthians 10:7
1st Peter 3:4
John 6:63
James 1:21-25
|
🚫
|
True beauty is in the depths of a God fearing soul.
|
|
394.
|
● Age before beauty
|
Leviticus 19:32
Proverbs 20:29
Matthew 15:4-6
Mark 7:11-12
Ephesians 6:2
1st Timothy 5:1-2
|
🚫
|
The callous abandonment of the elderly is an
abomination to God, and the disgrace of a people.
|
|
395.
|
● Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
|
Ps. 50:2
Prov. 11:22
Ec. 3:11
1st Pet. 3:4
1st Samuel 16:7
Ezekiel 16:15
Song of Solomon 1:15;
6:10
|
🚫
|
Passion defines what is gorgeous or not.
One man’s passion is another man’s disgust.
|
|
396.
|
● Clothes don’t make the man
|
Mat.6:25-31;
7:15;
10:16;
28:3;
3:4
Luke 7:23-26
2ndCor.5:1-4
1st Tim. 5:24;
6:8
Jm. 2:2-4
1st Pet. 5:5
|
🚫
|
Spirit wears eternally more
~ Adorning that which radiates gloriously.
|
|
397.
|
● Appearances are (can be) deceptive
|
Matthew 7:15
John 7:24
2nd Peter 2:1-3
1st John 4:1
|
🚫
|
Trust is betrayed to often with a kiss.
|
|
398.
|
● All flash and no substance
|
Matthew 6:5,
6:16;
23:4-7,
23:16-17
Mark 12:38-40
Luke 11:43-47;
20:46-47
|
🚫
|
False leaders thirst for glory oppressing the meek.
|
|
399.
|
● A picture is worth a thousand words
|
Psalm 19:1
Mark 4:30
Acts 17:29
1st John 3:2
|
🚫
|
No picture can color our existence to come.
|
|
400.
|
● All that glitters is not gold
|
Joshua 7:20-25
Mat. 7:15;
23:5-8;
23:9
Luke 20:46-47
|
🚫
|
Nothing materialistic holds permanence.
|
|
401.
|
● Silence is golden
|
Ecc. 4:6
1st Peter 3:4
Prov. 17:1
Ps. 46:10
Is. 26:3
|
🚫
|
Precious is deep quiet peace.
|
|
402.
|
● Quietness is a great treasure
|
Proverbs 15:6
Ecclesiastes 4:6
Isaiah 32:17
1st Peter 3:4
|
🚫
|
True treasure touches the moment.
|
|
403.
|
● Still waters run deep
|
Psalm 1:3;
23:2
Prov. 18:4;
20:5
Jer. 17:8
Rev. 7:17
|
🚫
|
Quite seeking souls hold enormous wells of truth.
|
|
404.
|
● Who seeks shall find
|
Proverbs 8:17
Matthew 7:7
Luke 11:9
Hebrews 11:6
|
✔
|
Without seeking God’s divine truth vision is hidden.
|
|
405.
|
● If you want peace, you must prepare for war
|
Ec. 10:4
Ezekiel 38:7
James 4:1
1st Peter 2:11-12
|
🚫
|
The battle of peace is with
one's own heart choosing correctly.
|
|
406.
|
● Peace be with you
|
Judges 6:23
Psalm 122:8
John 20:19
Romans 12:18
|
✔
|
Peace is joy of spirit.
|
|
407.
|
● Peace offering
|
Leviticus 3:6
|
✔
|
There is no peace without genuine desire to be pure.
Pursuing peace with God in His ways delivers eternity.
|
|
408.
|
● Hold out the olive branch
|
Genesis 8:11
Hosea 14:6
Matthew 5:9
|
🚫
|
Peace is the path to God.
|
|
409.
|
● Let bygones be bygones
|
Proverbs 20:22
Matthew 6:14-15
Romans 12:19-20
|
🚫
|
Anger can defeat one in self oblivion void of God.
|
|
410.
|
● Turn the other cheek
|
Matthew 5:39
|
✔
|
Standing for the glory of honor defeats the despicable.
|
|
411.
|
● What's done is done
|
Ps. 33:4
Ec. 8:17;
9:3
John 19:30
Rom. 5:12
Rev. 21:6
|
🚫
|
The past is lost to permanence, NOW is given to live.
|
|
412.
|
● The powers that be
|
Romans 13:1-2
Ephesians 6:12
1st Peter 2:13-16
|
🚫
|
The best that it is is.
|
|
413.
|
● To live in the past, in that way lies madness
|
Ec. 7:10;
9:3
2nd Corinthians 5:17
Philippians 3:13-14
|
🚫
|
The past is dead, NOW is building the future.
|
|
414.
|
● Cool as a cucumber
|
Psalm 26:11;
119:165
Phil. 1:28
Heb. 13:6
James 3:2
|
🚫
|
Faith increases the glory to ably stand.
|
|
415.
|
● Moderation in all things
|
Genesis 4:7
Ecclesiastes 7:16
1st Cor. 9:25
Philippians 4:11-13
James 3:2
Galatians 4:18
|
✔
|
Temperance is the salt of the soul.
Zeal is the spice of our lives.
|
|
416.
|
● Make due with what you have
|
Mark 4:24
Luke 14:28
Phil. 4:11
1st Tim. 4:16
Heb. 2:1
|
🚫
|
A still thankful heart finds tranquility.
|
|
417.
|
● For everything there is a season
|
Ecclesiastes 3:1-8
Romans 8:28
|
✔
|
All that is genuine will return to God.
|
|
418.
|
● The sky is always darkest (hour) before the dawn
|
Jg. 16:22
Job 7:4
Is. 58:10
John 16:20-21
2ndPet. 1:19
|
🚫
|
Lift yourself, grow to God’s star of light for life.
|
|
419.
|
● Every cloud has a silver lining
|
Job 37:16;
38:37
Psalm 36:5;
57:10;
77:17
Isaiah 44:22
|
🚫
|
God looks for spirit light in the face of our afflictions.
|
|
420.
|
● Clouds gather before a storm
|
Matthew 16:3
Luke 12:54
|
🚫
|
Turmoil encircles a challenged world of desires.
Most see trouble coming yet miss blessings abounding.
|
|
421.
|
● Without a shadow of a doubt
|
Matthew 17:20;
21:21
Mark 11:23
Luke 17:6
James 1:6
|
🚫
|
Doubt is the poison that destroys trust.
|
|
422.
|
● History repeats itself
|
Proverbs 26:11
Ecclesiastes 1:8-11;
7:10
|
🚫
|
We live, we die, we return to God.
|
|
423.
|
● This too shall pass
|
Ps. 23:4;
138:7;
144:4;
102:11
1stChron.29:15
Jm.4:14
Ec.3:1-8
Mat.24:6-8
2nd Cor. 4:17-18
1st Cor. 5:9-11
1st Jo. 2:17
2nd Tim. 2:3
Heb. 11:32-34
2nd Pe. 3:10
|
🚫
|
Agony is universal until wickedness
vanishes away upon final judgment.
The passing of life closes all storms.
|
|
424.
|
● To weep is to make less the depth of grief
|
Ecclesiastes 7:2-4
Matthew 5:4
2nd Corinthians 1:7
|
🚫
|
Grief is a hole with no bottom.
Piercing aches pour woes over intimate loves lost.
|
|
425.
|
● Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away
|
2nd Samuel 12:23
Psalms 42:11;
88:6
Ecclesiastes 1:18
Matthew 11:16-19;
23:4
1st Thess. 4:13
Revelation 7:17
|
🚫
|
Countless unseen tears paint humanity.
The petrification of pain seizes all feeling.
|
|
426.
|
● We need never be ashamed of our tears
|
Psalm 6:6,
8;
126:5
Ecclesiastes 7:3
Jeremiah 9:1,
18-19
John 16:20
Hebrews 12:17
|
🚫
|
Sorrow haunts the piercings of the heart.
Tears mingle in both shame and glory.
|
|
427.
|
● Drown in one's sorrows
|
Job 3:24-26;
6:4;
15:20
Psalms 32:4;
35:14;
38:6-8;
69:20
|
🚫
|
Self-pity is a painful sinking of spirit.
|
|
428.
|
● Water under the bridge
|
Ps. 51:3
Prov. 28:13
Luke 9:62
Phil. 3:13
1st John 1:9
|
🚫
|
Our present is molded by an indelible past.
|
|
429.
|
● Never say never
|
Ex.5:2
Ps.10:13
Prov.30:15-16
Mat.16:25
Jn.8:51
Phil.3:13
|
🚫
|
Fools doubt God’s eternal power for life.
|
|
430.
|
● Expect the unexpected
|
Matthew 24:44;
25:13
Luke 12:40;
21:34
Acts 27:25
Romans 8:9;
14:11
Hebrews 10:26-27
|
🚫
|
Only time reveals what is yet to be.
However unanticipated we will all return to God.
|
|
431.
|
● Let well enough alone
|
1st Corinthians 15:58
Jude 1:20-23
|
🚫
|
God does not call us to indifference.
|
|
432.
|
● Leave well enough alone
|
Job 10:20
Proverbs 24:19
Acts 17:30
|
🚫
|
God now commands us to come to Him.
|
|
433.
|
● Enough is enough
|
Exodus 9:28
1st Kings 19:4
2nd Chronicles 36:16
|
🚫
|
Disgust ends in life’s exasperation.
|
|
434.
|
● Don't make waves
|
Psalm 89-9
Psalm 107-29
James 1:5-6
2nd Peter 3:17
|
🚫
|
One enters Heaven peacefully.
|
|
435.
|
● Don’t rain on my parade
|
Job 19:2
Psalm 10:6;
78:53
Matthew 5:45;
26:5
Acts 24:24-25
Philippians 2:4
2nd Peter 2:8
|
🚫
|
The parade of righteousness will clear the storm.
|
|
436.
|
● Take the wind out of the sails
|
Job 30:16
Psalms 22:14;
103:15-16
Ecclesiastes 1:14
Matthew 14:29-32;
22:5
|
🚫
|
Without seriousness for heavenly truth, vibrancy is
crushed. The wealth of a soul is empty without the
treasures of God’s purpose. Time is the wind of God.
|
|
437.
|
● Don't make me your scapegoat
|
Leviticus 16:8-10,
16:21-22,
16:26
Isaiah 53:11
Hebrews 9:28
|
🚫
|
No one desires what is most undesirable; Christ
took upon our sins so that we may obtain salvation.
|
|
438.
|
● Flies in the ointment
|
Ecclesiastes 10:1
Galatians 5:9
|
✔
|
A little bad spoils the whole.
|
|
439.
|
● One bad apple (egg) spoils the whole bunch
|
Ec. 9:18
Rom. 5:12-14
Mat.7:15
Jude 1:3-4
2ndTim.3:1-5
|
🚫
|
Evil floats to the top oppressing all below.
|
|
440.
|
● Sly as a fox
|
Job 5:13
Mat. 7:15
Rom. 16:17-18
Ep. 4:14
Col. 2:8
|
🚫
|
Wickedness prowls the corridors of our hearts.
|
|
441.
|
● Heart of stone
|
Job 41:24
|
✔
|
Conniving hearts bear no warmth for others.
|
|
442.
|
● It is an ill wind that blows nobody any good
|
Isaiah 64:6
Ephesians 4:14
Hebrews 13:9
James 1:5-6
|
🚫
|
For all that is flesh siphons to sin.
|
|
443.
|
● An idle mind is the devil's workshop
|
Proverbs 10:26;
18:9;
19:15;
21:25;
26:13
1st Peter 5:8
1st Timothy 5:13
2nd Thessalonians 3:11
|
🚫
|
Fear is the nail that buries the weak.
|
|
444.
|
● Lazy Bones
|
Prov. 6:9;
12:24;
15:19;
19:15,
19:24;
24:33-34;
26:13-16
Ezekiel 37:1-6
|
🚫
|
Courage escapes a lazy man.
|
|
445.
|
● Good for nothing
|
Proverbs 20:14
Matthew 5:13
|
✔
|
Void of spiritual inclination presents worthlessness.
|
|
446.
|
● The seven deadly sins
Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Lust, Vanity, Envy, Wrath
|
Ecclesiastes 7:20
Proverbs 6:16-19
Galatians 5:19-21
Romans 3:23
1st Corinthians 6:9-10
James 2:10
|
🚫
|
Any sin is deadly.
|
|
447.
|
● Green with envy
|
Psalm 10:3;
59:15;
73:2-3
James 3:14-16
|
🚫
|
Envy is external torment with no inner calm.
|
|
448.
|
● Better to be envied than pitied
|
Ps. 86:5;
103:13
Prov. 22:9;
28:6
Ec. 4:4
Mat. 18:33
|
🚫
|
Mercy given is needful for all.
|
|
449.
|
● Guilty as sin.
|
John 8:7
Romans 3:23
|
🚫
|
Sin: the scourge in life yielding death.
|
|
450.
|
● A nest of vipers
|
Isaiah 59:4-5
Luke 3:7
Matthew 3:7;
12:34;
23:33
|
🚫
|
Nestled in the whole of the forest,
Vipers collectively consume all light.
|
|
451.
|
● There is no rest for the wicked
|
Isaiah 48:22;
57:20-21
Jude 1:11-13
Rev. 14:11;
20:10
|
✔
|
The wicked are a whirlwind.
|
|
452.
|
● No rest for the weary
|
Psalm 69:3;
90:10;
109:5
Job 7:4-7
Galatians 6:9
|
🚫
|
Agony accompanies tireless efforts of man.
|
|
453.
|
● Give the devil his due
|
Prov.17:10;
19:18;
3:12
Rom.12:19-21
Mat.18:21-22
Gal.6:1
|
🚫
|
Correction is best given patiently in love.
|
|
454.
|
● Face the music
|
Jer.17:10;
32:19
Mat.12:36;
16:27
Luke 8:17
Rom.2:6;
14:12
Gal. 6:7-8
1st Cor. 3:13
2nd Cor. 5:10
Rev. 2:23;
20:12;
22:12
|
🚫
|
It is what has played upon the heart
that will sing one’s fate.
|
|
455.
|
● You've made your bed, now lie in it
|
Psalm 139:8
Prov. 26:27
Job 19:4
Jer. 31:30
Galatians 6:5-7
Romans 14:12
James 1:12
|
🚫
|
Our life is who we are.
God does not accept quitters.
|
|
456.
|
● Too much too little too late
|
Matthew 25:1-13
Luke 16:19-31
|
🚫
|
Put off God to your own demise.
|
|
457.
|
● Who begins too much accomplishes little
|
Proverbs 14:16
Luke 14:28-33
|
🚫
|
The path to heaven is to eagerly sacrifice your all.
|
|
458.
|
● Don’t have too many irons in the fire
|
Lk.14:28-30
1stJohn 2:16
Jm.4:4
2ndTim.3:2-5
1stCor.15:34
|
🚫
|
Take hold and choose your irons carefully.
|
|
459.
|
● You can run but you can't hide
|
Prov.15:3
Ps.33:13-15;
38:9;
139:7-12
Ec.12:14
Mk.4:22
Lk.12:2
Rom.2:16
Heb.4:13
2ndChron.16:9
Jer.23:24
|
🚫
|
God is all knowing.
|
|
460.
|
● What is done in the dark will come to the light
|
Ps.90:8
Ec.12:14
Mark 4:22
Lk.8:17
1st Cor.4:5
Ep.5:8
|
🚫
|
All living rivers return to God who made them.
|
|
461.
|
● Garbage in, garbage out
|
Job 15:34-35
Mark 7:18-23
1st Cor. 5:6;
15:33
Titus 1:15
|
🚫
|
Filth surrounds the darkness of evil.
|
|
462.
|
● Swallow hook, line, and sinker
|
Matthew 6:24;
7:15;
16:6,
11-12
Luke 12:1-2,
15
Colossians 2:8
1st Timothy 4:1
1st John 2:15;
1st John 4:1
|
🚫
|
One’s passion defines purpose of heart.
Loving earthly possessions can quash a free spirit.
|
|
463.
|
● Bad company destroys good morals
|
1st Corinthians 15:33
|
🚫
|
Accompaniments direct character.
|
|
464.
|
● What goes around comes around
|
Prov. 12:26;
22:24-25
Ec. 1:6-7
1stCor. 15:33
Gal. 5:9
|
🚫
|
Associations define us.
|
|
465.
|
● Sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander
|
Ep. 4:29
Col. 4:6
1st Thess. 5:11
1st Tim. 4:16
|
🚫
|
It is good to pursue goodness for goodness's sake.
|
|
466.
|
● Birds of a feather flock together
|
Prov.11:21;
16:5
1st Cor.5:6-8;
15:33
Phil.3:17
1stPet.5:2-3
|
🚫
|
People gather where their desires guide them.
|
|
467.
|
● For the birds
|
Ec. 12:3-5
Prov. 7:23
Jer. 16:4;
34:20
Rev. 18:2
|
✔
|
Scavenge for the way before age cripples capacity.
|
|
468.
|
● Bird brain
|
Psalm 73:22;
92:5-6
Prov. 1:22;
27:8
Mat. 6:26
|
🚫
|
Mindless are those who snub God.
|
|
469.
|
● Free as a bird
|
Luke 12:27-28
John 8:36
Romans 6:6-7
Galatians 5:1
James 1:25
1st Peter 2:15-16
|
🚫
|
Freedom is an act of nature given by God.
|
|
470.
|
● As the crow flies
|
Job 28:5-7
Psalms 104:10-12;
11:1;
139:7;
90:10
Obadiah 1:4
Acts 1:12
|
🚫
|
No matter the distance or length of time,
everywhere straight ahead, all lines lead to God.
|
|
471.
|
● Paybacks are tough
|
Nahum 1:2-3
Rom. 12:19
Heb. 10:26-27
2nd Thess. 1:8
|
🚫
|
God’s wrath will be done.
|
|
472.
|
● Fool me once, shame on you;
Fool me twice, shame on me.
|
2nd Corinthians 4:1-7
1st Timothy 2:13-14
|
🚫
|
Destroyer of peace, Satan is the deceiver.
|
|
473.
|
● Give someone an inch and they’ll take a mile
|
Job 24:9-10
Is.56:11
Rom.16:18
2ndPet.2:3
Jm.1:15
|
🚫
|
Unrestrained desire void of empathy plows ruin.
|
|
474.
|
● Rules are made to be broken
|
Exodus 16:25-28
Matthew 23:9
Romans 3:20
Colossians 2:18
1st Timothy 4:1-3
1st John 4:6
|
🚫
|
Our inability to obey is exposed in natural sin.
|
|
475.
|
● Cheaters never prosper
|
Job 5:12
Ps.73:18
Prov.11:18;
28:13
1stCor.6:9-10;
15:50
|
🚫
|
No one can cheat God from Heaven.
|
|
476.
|
● Quitters never prosper
|
Matthew 25:24-29
2nd Thessalonians 3:10
|
🚫
|
Disappointed with nothing as marrow sucked dry.
|
|
477.
|
● Quit while you are ahead
|
1st Cor. 9:24-27
Phil. 3:14
2nd Timothy 4:7
Hebrews 12:1
|
🚫
|
Quitters hold the hopeless misery death offers.
|
|
478.
|
● You are your own worst enemy
|
1st Cor. 3:18-19
Prov. 3:7;
5:22
Jeremiah 17:9
1st John 1:8
James 3:2;
3:13-16
|
🚫
|
Overcoming the enemies from within
is found in submission to God.
|
|
479.
|
● It is a wicked web we weave
|
Job 8:13-15
Prov. 24:8-9
Is. 59:5-6
Jer. 2:19;
9:8;
17:9
|
🚫
|
Lurking desperation hides anticipation for more.
|
|
480.
|
● Vicious circle
|
Deut. 28:50
Dan. 8:23
Psalms 37:8
Prov. 21:16
1st Corinthians 5:10
2nd Peter 2:8
1st John 5:19
|
🚫
|
Evil continuously spins torture as we live.
Democracy destroys liberty for a standing republic.
|
|
481.
|
● The Devil looks after his own
|
Matthew 12:26-30
1st Pet.5:8
|
🚫
|
Self seeking connives against all else.
|
|
482.
|
● The Devil made me do it
|
Mat. 4:3-11;
15:19
1st Cor. 10:13
Gal. 5:16-18
2nd Pet. 2:19
|
🚫
|
God has given all free power to choose.
|
|
483.
|
● Better the devil you know
than the devil you don’t know
|
Gen. 3:22
Prov. 10:24
Ep. 5:11
1st Cor. 10:20
Gal. 6:8
|
🚫
|
Humble yourself to find yourself.
|
|
484.
|
● The devil is in the details
|
Gen. 31:38-41
1st Kings 6:38;
7:1
Job 8:8;
38:4
Ec. 12:12
John 2:20
Luke 11:42
2nd Cor. 11:24-28
2nd Pet. 3:14-16
|
🚫
|
Great deeds can only come through diligence.
|
|
485.
|
● Pain in the rear
|
Proverbs 21:9;
21:19;
26:21;
27:15
|
🚫
|
Annoyance for all dwells in those full of contempt.
|
|
486.
|
● Fly off the handle
|
Job 39:24
Proverbs 14:17,
29;
26:21;
29:22
Ec. 7:9
|
🚫
|
Rage devours the meek consumed in tears.
|
|
487.
|
● Hot tempered (headed)
|
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Proverbs 14:17
|
🚫
|
The heat of anger’s darkness devourers the light.
|
|
488.
|
● Boiling mad
|
Job 41:19-22,
Proverbs 14:17,
29;
16:27;
17:14;
29:22
Ecclesiastes 7:9
Zephaniah 3:8
Matthew 5:22
|
🚫
|
Anger’s molten cesspool is hell.
|
|
489.
|
● Tempest in a teapot
|
Psalm 10:9
Prov. 15:18
Hosea 7:6
Rom. 16:18
Ep. 4:14
|
🚫
|
Anger is a stranger waging danger in the face of God.
|
|
490.
|
● If looks could kill
|
Isaiah 3:9
Ps. 18:27;
101:5
Prov. 6:16-17;
16:18;
18:12;
21:4
Matthew 5:21-22;
5:27-29
1st John 3:15;
4:20
|
🚫
|
Hatreds brazen appearance gives no clearance.
|
|
491.
|
● He who angers you conquers you
|
Psalms 37:8
Proverbs 16:32;
22:24-25
Ecclesiastes 7:9
|
🚫
|
Senseless anger fuels turmoil absent of His light.
|
|
492.
|
● Revenge is sweet
|
Proverbs 6:34-35;
20:22;
24:29
Romans 12:19
|
🚫
|
Indignation pressures the heart for relief.
|
|
493.
|
● Violence begets violence
|
Ps. 7:14-16;
73:6
Prov. 13:2;
21:7
Ezekiel 7:23
Amos 3:10
|
🚫
|
Violence is the drip of anger.
|
|
494.
|
● He who lives by the sword, dies by the sword
|
Psalms 37:14-15
Job 36:12
Matthew 26:52
Revelation 13:10
|
✔
|
Confirms "Violence begets violence".
|
|
495.
|
● War is hell
|
Ex.15:3
Ec.8:8
Is.13:11
Acts 20:29-30
Jm.4:1
Rev.19:11
|
🚫
|
Man against man drives no end.
|
|
496.
|
● Save the King
|
2nd Samuel 15:13-15
2nd Chronicles 18:31
Is. 33:22;
45:22
Matthew 27:42
1st Timothy 2:4
|
🚫
|
The King has come to save us.
|
|
497.
|
● The pen is mightier than the sword
|
Ps. 45:1
2nd Cor. 3:3
Ep. 6:17
Heb. 4:12
Rev. 20:12
|
🚫
|
Good deeds color a soul's brilliance.
|
|
498.
|
● All good things must come to an end
|
Genesis 1:10
Ecclesiastes 7:3
Matthew 13:39
Romans 8:20-22
2ndPeter 3:10-12
Revelation 20:13-15
|
🚫
|
Earth entered sorrows so hope would give birth
to eternally loyal souls revealed through hardships.
|
|
499.
|
● Take the good with the bad
|
Prov.16:17
Lk.11:34
Rom.8:18
2ndCor.4:17;
5:10
Ep.5:11
|
🚫
|
Eyes on the Light fades the darkness.
|
|
500.
|
● Play to the gallery
|
Matthew 23:5-6
John 7:13;
9:22;
12:42;
19:38
|
🚫
|
Either seeking respect of men or fearing renowned
men, both escape a true relationship with God.
|
|
501.
|
● When in Rome, do as the Romans do
|
Genesis 4:7
2nd Thessalonians.3:6-7
1st Peter 4:1-4
Colossians 3:17
2nd Timothy 3:1-5
|
🚫
|
God wills improvement, not complacency.
|
|
502.
|
● Go with the flow
|
Prov. 16:25
Ec. 2:11
Zep. 1:12
Mat. 7:21
2nd Cor. 10:12
|
🚫
|
Complacency destroys compassionate insight.
|
|
503.
|
● Follow your juice (spirit)
|
Ez. 13:3
Mat. 26:41
John 6:63
1st Thess. 5:19
Rev. 14:13
|
🚫
|
Guidance in life must rely on God’s given truth.
|
|
504.
|
● Just trust (follow) your heart
|
Psalms 64:10;
94:15
Proverbs 3:5;
16:25
Jeremiah 17:9
|
🚫
|
Feelings can decieve even the most wise.
|
|
505.
|
● Live and let live
|
Isaiah 11:3-5
John 8:15;
12:47-48
Mattthew 7:1-2
Acts 14:15-16
1stCorinthians 11:31
|
🚫
|
Life’s true value is found in embracing others.
|
|
506.
|
● Life is good
|
James 4:13-16
1st Kings 10:24-11:8
Jer. 12:1-4
Rev. 3:17
|
🚫
|
Complacency is part of mediocrity.
|
|
507.
|
● Life is a bowl of cherries
|
Proverbs 15:15
Ec. 11:9
Isaiah 56:12
Luke 21:34-35
|
🚫
|
Anguish surrounds snobbish contemptibility.
|
|
508.
|
● Live life to the fullest
|
Ecclesiastes 11:9
James 4:13-16
John 11:25
Galatians 2:20
|
🚫
|
To the fullest in Christ or self is the essential question.
|
|
509.
|
● Full of pep (vim) and vinegar (vigor)
|
Job 14:1
Ecclesiastes 9:10;
11:9
Galatians 4:18
|
🚫
|
The charge of life holds well beyond one’s dreams.
|
|
510.
|
● Like there's no tomorrow
|
Proverbs 27:1
Isaiah 22:13
James 4:13-16
Luke 12:18-20
|
🚫
|
Eternity has more value
than temporary impulsiveness.
|
|
511.
|
● The sky is the limit
|
Psalm 10:6
Proverb 30:13
Ecclesiastes 5:10
Isaiah 56:11-12
Obadiah 1:3-4
Luke 12:16-21;
21:34
|
🚫
|
Eagles soar still short of heaven.
|
|
512.
|
● Made in the shade
|
Jonah 4:6
Psalm 121:5
Mark 4:30-32
Luke 12:16-21
|
🚫
|
Confidence void of thankfulness is arrogance.
|
|
513.
|
● The more the merrier
|
Romans 1:29-32
|
🚫
|
Frenzied revelries please men, not God.
|
|
514.
|
● Misery loves company
|
Prov. 14:10
Heb. 11:24-26
1st Pet. 4:16-19
Rom. 1:29-32
|
🚫
|
No reasonable soul is eager to suffer.
|
|
515.
|
● No use crying over spilt milk
|
2nd Sam. 12:22-23
John 11:21
Luke 9:62
Hebrews 5:12-13
|
🚫
|
Dwell not upon failure but seek tomorrow’s success.
|
|
516.
|
● Don't make a mountain out of a molehill
|
Matthew 7:4-5;
23:23-24
Luke 10:40-41;
11:42
|
🚫
|
The petty inherit small minded blindness.
|
|
517.
|
● Splitting hairs
|
Job 6:25
Psalm 40:12
Matthew 5:36
Luke 10:40-41;
11:42
2nd Corinthians 12:20
|
🚫
|
Pounding details can compromise
simple human decency.
|
|
518.
|
● Two wrongs don’t make a right
|
Acts 5:1-11
|
🚫
|
Evil upon evil is still evil.
|
|
519.
|
● That’s the blind leading the blind
|
Matthew 15:14
Luke 6:39
|
✔
|
Darkness holds no light.
|
|
520.
|
● There are none so blind as
those who do not want to see
|
Matthew 15:14;
23:23-25
John 12:40
2nd Cor. 3:14;
4:3-4
|
🚫
|
Dark hearts are unwilling to see God’s love.
|
|
521.
|
● Turn a blind eye
|
Psalm 10:11;
10:13;
94:8-9
Matthew 6:22-23;
7:3-5;
15:14
John 9:39-41
Ephesians 4:18
|
🚫
|
God remains for those that refuse to see Him.
|
|
522.
|
● Look the other way
|
Genesis 9:23
Psalm 119:37
Proverbs 4:27;
30:12
Isaiah 1:4;
53:6
John. 12:40
Luke 6:41,
46;
10:30-37
Acts 24:25
Rom. 2:13;
11:8
Heb. 12:25
James 1:23-24
|
🚫
|
Failing to look at our own faults blinds our vision.
~
Not looking to God declines the quality of the soul.
|
|
523.
|
● Thick (hard) headed
|
Jeremiah 5:21
Ezekiel 12:2
Zecariah. 7:11
Matthew 13:15
John 12:40
Acts 28:27
Romans 11:8
|
🚫
|
A stubborn heart blinds one from the light of God
to clearly see the truth of what Love has given.
|
|
524.
|
● Narrow minded
|
Ps. 95:8
Zechariah 7:11
Mat. 23:23-25
Acts 7:51
Heb. 3:13
|
🚫
|
Bitter hearted narrowness condemns one in contempt.
|
|
525.
|
● Can't see the forest for the trees
|
Jeremiah 10:2-5
Isaiah 29:16
Luke 11:42
James 3:5
|
🚫
|
The larger picture eludes all small minded.
|
|
526.
|
● Can't make heads or tails of it
|
Job 23:8-9
Ps. 55:5
Is. 28:7
2nd Cor. 4:8
2nd Tim. 3:7
|
🚫
|
One can not approach God in a stupor.
|
|
527.
|
● I'll believe that when I see it
|
John 20:25,
29
2nd Corinthians 5:7;
4:18
Hebrews 11:1
|
🚫
|
Without belief, doubt kills hope.
|
|
528.
|
● Seeing is believing
|
Jn.1:18;
4:48;
20:24-29
Heb.11:1
Ex.33:20
Col.1:15
Rev.1:7
|
🚫
|
Belief is knowing unseen truth.
|
|
529.
|
● Where there is no vision, the people perish
|
Proverbs 29:18
Proverbs 29:18 - KJV
|
✔
|
Disdain for God’s Word renders lawless atrocities.
|
|
530.
|
● Dig yourself into a hole
|
Ps. 7:15;
38:4,17;
40:12;
69:14;
88:6
Prov. 5:22;16:27
Am.9:2
|
🚫
|
The soul is a hole in need of Holiness.
|
|
531.
|
● Feet of clay
|
Psalm 40:2
Daniel 2:32-35
|
🚫
|
No where to stand unless God ordains it.
|
|
532.
|
● Stuck in the mud
|
Psalm 40:2;
69:2
Acts 27:41
Ephesians 5:11-21
|
🚫
|
Indifference plagues the depressed.
|
|
533.
|
● Here's mud in your eye
|
Psalm 13:3
Ephesians 5:18
John 9:5-16
|
🚫
|
His will is for us to see the truth.
|
|
534.
|
● Evil eye
|
Deut. 15:9
Proverbs 28:22
Matthew 20:14-15
Mark 7:21-23
|
✔
|
Jealousies greedy desire sparks an evil glare.
|
|
535.
|
● An eye for an eye
|
Exodus 21:22-25
Leviticus 24:19-20
Matthew 5:38-48
|
✔
|
Instead of retribution, show forgiveness;
~ New legislation given by the Lord.
|
|
536.
|
● The eye is the window to the soul
|
Matthew 6:22
Luke 11:34
|
🚫
|
The spirit behind the eye is the lamp of the soul.
|
|
537.
|
● In the twinkling of an eye
|
1st Corinthians 15:52
|
✔
|
All the earth is but a moment in the eye of God.
|
|
538.
|
● Keep your eyes on the prize
|
1st Corinthians 9:24-25
Philippians 3:13-14
Luke 9:62
|
🚫
|
Grasp eternal life now.
|
|
539.
|
● Eyes wide open, Heads up
|
Psalms 5:3;
119:18 &n |
Reactor
