Quotable quotes: 4Reader'Digest (1984)

Quotable quotes: 4Reader'Digest (1984)

61. One of the wonders of life is precisely that: The wonder of life.
62. When you think you have influence, try to give orders to another dog.
63
After the ship was lost, everyone knows how it could have been saved.
64. If you wish to enjoy a good reputation, strive to be what you appear to be.
65. All triumphs are born when we dare to begin.
66. True tragedies do not result from the confrontation between a right and an injustice.
They arise from the clash of two rights.
67. Eating with music is an insult, both for the cook and for the violinist.
68. Love is not measured by the number of caresses, but by the frequency with which one and the other understand each other.
69. Praise properly debases.
70. Criticism should be applied, in what is said of the cutlery: Never use the knife when you can carve with the spoon.
71. Every generation rebels against parents and makes friends with grandparents.
72. Man has learned to fly like birds, he has only left or need to discover how to do it silently like them.
73. Certain minor vices that obscure the great virtues; and some small virtues that hide great defects.
74. Hate is a prolonged form of suicide.
75. "Tell me what you are reading and I will tell you who you are", is a quite true aphorism; but I would know better what you read.
76. The person who talks about his inferiors has none.
77. All life except empty life requires that we break one draft after another.
78. It is difficult to recognize good luck, because it is very similar to something we have earned.
78. If you do not get what you want, it's a sign that you did not crave it seriously, or try to bargain for the price.
79. become indispensable and achieve promotion. I acted as if it was indispensable, and it will descend until it is put on its feet in the street.
80. The modern husband believes that the place of the woman is in the home; and he expects the wife to return there as soon as he finishes his workday.
81. We have probably laid more bridges on roads than on rivers.

With affection,

Rubén

Quotable quotes: 3 Reader ‘Digest (1984)

Quotable quotes: 3 Reader ‘Digest (1984)

41. Never ever stopped remembering that just existing is fun.
42. The political life of a people marks the condition in which it is found; it marks its moral level, it marks its temper and energy, its character.
43. If we all kept silent unless we knew what we are talking about, a sepulchral silence would descend on the earth.
44. Whoever does not have charity suffers from the worst of heart diseases.
45. The secret to success in dealing with a child is not being one of its parents.
46. ​​Perhaps the most productive words of man are those he uses to praise his wife.
47. The power of a good reputation is like being dead among the living.
48. Doing what others cannot is called innate ability; doing more than innate ability consigns is called genius.
49. It is strange how much one has to know to know, how little one knows.
50. True success is to overcome the fear of failure.
51. "Agree" at the beginning "is the most common way of dissent.
52. The best motorist is the one who drives with imagination. Imagine that your family is in the car.
53
Why medical science will not have devised some method for our ailments to interest our neighbor as well as ourselves?
54. Ignorance is happiness blind to oblivion.
55. Yesterday is a cheek canceled; Tomorrow is a promissory note,  and today is hard cash. Take advantage of it!
55. We could all take advantage of the lesson of the weather: criticisms do not affect anything.
56. He who hastens his life, hastens his death.
57. Admiration is our acknowledgment cuts from someone who looks like us.
58. Of all the arts, the most sublime is the art of living in harmony.
59. We love those who know the worst of us and do not turn our backs on us.
60. Accept in good taste what they ask you to accept.
Accept it and make it an advantage for you.
With affection,

Rubén

Quotable quotes: 2 Reader'Digest (1984)

Quotable quotes: 2 Reader'Digest (1984)

21. Great geniuses never make half-mistakes; They have the privilege of immensity in every sense of the word.
22. The wise in their attitude toward the world, has no predilections or prejudices.
 It is on the side that is right.
23. Words can be beautiful. Also the children, also the hopes.
24. For my father, manual labor was not only good and dignifying, he also used to say that it gave clarity to his thoughts.
25. When I run away, the more I start to stumble.
26. Humility is the etiquette demanded by the ceremonial for the audiences with God.
27. Some believe that discipline is a thankless task. For me it is a kind of order that gives freedom to fly.
28. Success has no secrets. Do you know any successful man who has not counted as a triumph?
29. What is memory? It is not a warehouse nor a trunk that keeps in the attic, but an instrument that constantly eliminates the past, turning it into an accessible and acceptable story for each one.
30. Lacking something that makes you feel important, is almost the greatest tragedy that can happen to the human being.
31. Those who think they do not have time to prejudice will sooner or later find time to hope.
32. The inhabitants of a planet without flowers would pass it without life; while we are always crazy to be happy to have so many things around us.
33. Always count failures bores to the one who counts them as the one who hears them.
34. Enthusiasts, for those who are not, always constitute a kind of mortification.
35. As long as the war is considered perverse, it will always have a certain fascination.
When it is considered vulgar, it will cease to be popular.
36. Someday you will verify, if what makes you an exceptional being, if at all you are; it is also inevitable that that will make you a lonely being
37. Every night I give my worries to God. After all, he always reproaches.
38. Many men are praised for their modesty and for their supposed shyness. When in fact, they are too proud to risk making a fool of themselves.
39. After 30 years the body has a will of its own.
40. Although it is very good to leave our traces in the sands of time, we must take care that they point towards the recommended direction.

With affection,
Rubén

Quotable quotes: 1 Reader'Digest (1984)

Quotable quotes: 1 Reader'Digest (1984)

 

1. Most of us would like to return to the simple life, if the path was not so complicated.
2. If two individuals always agree on everything, you can be sure that one of them thinks for both.
3. Humanity can be divided among a multitude that detests that they make it wait, because this bores it; and a few happy beings who like it, because it gives them the time to think.
4. Recognize yourself is not only the most difficult, but also the most annoying.
5. The nations must at least find a way to impose the discipline that is required in elementary school or kindergarten: not to hit , not to  take and share toys; and punish the first one who speaks.
6. Sometimes we say that we are free, because we did not press so hard.
7.The most suitable man for political positions, is the one that meets the qualities of the milkman's horse; It does not pose major problems and knows where to go.
8. The error of youth is to believe that intelligence supplies experience; and the error of mature age is to think that experience replaces intelligence.
9. Men usually ask God in their prayers that two and two be four.
10. Education is a toolbox.
11. A child is an island of curiosity surrounded by question marks.
12. Comedy has to look like the truth. The truth is taken and a curl is added.
13. Memory has the gift of the resurrection.
14. The more I want to do something, the less I consider it work.
15. Very often it is more necessary to change the way of being than to change the scenario.
16. The greatest obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge
17. Sometimes the child in one behaves in such a way that the rest of the personality goes behind him slowly shaking his head.
18. Love of nature is a permanent form of love for life.
19. The most pleasant and useful people are those who leave some problems of the universe, so that God cares for them.
20. Moderation is a virtue in those who have no alternative.

With affection,
Ruben

Charles Spurgeon

Brief Charles Spurgeon Biography

Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Victorian England's best-known Baptist minister, was born on June 19, 1834 in Kelvedon, Essex and spent his childhood and early teenage years in Stambourne, Colchester, and Newmarket. In 1856 he married Susannah Thompson; their only children, twin sons Thomas and Charles, were born on September 20, 1857.

Spurgeon had no formal education beyond Newmarket Academy, which he attended from August 1849 to June 1850, but he was very well-read in Puritan theology, natural history, and Latin and Victorian literature. His lack of a college degree was no hindrance to his remarkable preaching career, which began in 1850, when he was only fifteen years old. A few months after his conversion to Christianity, he began preaching at Teversham. The next year, he accepted his first pastorate, at the Baptist Chapel in Waterbeach. The church quickly grew from fewer than a dozen congregants to more than four hundred, and Spurgeon's reputation as a preacher caught the attention of New Park Street, London's largest Baptist church. He was invited to preach there in December 1853 and, following a brief probationary period, he agreed to move to London and become the church's new pastor.

Spurgeon's New Park Street congregation grew rapidly as well, soon becoming too large for the 1200-seat auditorium. On August 30, 1854, the membership agreed to enlarge the chapel; during the remodeling, services were held at the 5,000-seat Exeter Hall, a public auditorium in Strand Street. The renovations to New Park Street were complete in May 1855, but the chapel was still too small, and in June a committee was formed to oversee the construction of the church's new home, the 5,000-seat Metropolitan Tabernacle. The congregation moved once again, meeting in Exeter Hall and the 8,000-seat Surrey Gardens Music Hall until the Tabernacle was dedicated on March 18, 1861.

Spurgeon began publishing shortly after he started preaching. In January 1855, Passmore and Alabaster inaugurated the "Penny Pulpit," publishing one sermon every week; the series continued until 1917, a quarter-century after Spurgeon's death. Every year these sermons were reissued in book form, first as The New Park Street Pulpit (6 volumes, 1855-1860) and later as The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit (57 volumes, 1861-1917). Spurgeon published scores of religious books in addition to his sermons; the most significant works include Lectures to My Students (1890), a collection of talks delivered to the students of his Pastors' College, and the 7-volume Treasury of David (c. 1869), a best-selling devotional commentary on the Psalms.

Spurgeon's work in London was not limited to preaching and sermon-publishing. He also served as president of the Pastors' College, which he founded in 1857; established the Stockwell Orphanage, which opened for boys in 1867 and girls in 1879; and oversaw evangelistic and charitable enterprises such as almshouses, organizations for distributing food and clothing to the poor, and a book fund for needy ministers.

Spurgeon's preaching was both enormously popular and highly controversial. Some regarded him as the greatest orator since Whitefield; others criticized him as theatrical, awkward, and even sacrilegious. Two of his most controversial works were his "Baptismal Regeneration" sermon and his "Down Grade" articles. On June 5, 1864, he preached a sermon entitled "Baptismal Regeneration," objecting to Anglican teachings on the sacramental power of infant baptism. Over 350,000 copies were sold, and the furor it provoked led to Spurgeon's withdrawal from the Evangelical Alliance, an ecumenical association of Dissenters and Evangelical Anglicans.

The "Down Grade" controversy began in 1887, when Spurgeon published a series of articles declaring that evolutionary thinking and liberal theology threatened to "Down Grade" the church. In this case, he was concerned not with Anglican teaching, but with what he believed to be doctrinal error, particularly Unitarian ideas, within the Baptist Union. He discussed his concerns in private letters to ministers such as Samuel Booth and Joseph Parker and in several articles published in The Sword and the Trowel, the Metropolitan Tabernacle's monthly periodical. When these articles did not receive the response Spurgeon wanted--the matter was not discussed at the Union's 1887 meeting in Sheffield and some members of his own congregation dismissed or made light of it--he concluded that he had no choice but to resign from the Union, which he did on October 28.

Illness forced Spurgeon to keep a low profile during the last few years of his life. He preached his final sermon at the Metropolitan Tabernacle on June 7, 1891. He died in France on January 31, 1892; on February 9, over 60,000 people filed past his casket in the Tabernacle. He was buried at Norwood Cemetery on February 11.

With affection,

Ruben