An Old Farmer’s Advice


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• Life is simpler when you plow around the stump.

• Words that soak into your ears are whispered, not yelled.

• Meanness don’t jes’ happen overnight.

• Forgive your enemies; it messes up their heads.

• It don’t take a very big person to carry a grudge.

• You cannot unsay a cruel word.

• Every path has a few puddles.

• When you wallow with pigs, expect to get dirty.

• The best sermons are lived, not preached.

• God wants spiritual fruit, not religious nuts.

• Laugh every day. It’s like inner jogging.

• If you worry, you didn’t pray. If you pray, you didn’t worry.

• As a child of God, prayer is kinda like callin’ home every day.

• Blessed are the flexible. They cannot be bent out of shape.

• The most important things in yer house are the people.

• When you get tangled up in problems, be still. God wants us to be still so He can untangle the knot.

• A grudge is a heavy thing to carry.

• He who dies with the most toys is still dead.

• Growing old is inevitable. Growing UP Is optional.

• There is no key to happiness. The door is always open.

• Silence is often misinterpreted but never misquoted.

• Do the math. Count your blessings.

• Faith is the ability to not panic.

• Don’t interfere with something’ that ain’t botherin’ you none.

• A bumble bee is considerably faster than a John Deere tractor.

• “incline your ear to wisdom, and apply your heart to understanding” Proverbs 2:2.

Author unknown
Hollis church of Christ
Hollis, OK

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