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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.
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Hollis church of Christ
Hollis, OK