Richard Cumberland famous quotes

I do not mean to expose my ideas to ingenious ridicule by maintaining that everything happens to every man for the best; but I will contend, that he who makes the best use of it, fulfills the part of a wise and good man.
-- Richard Cumberland

#Wise #Gratitude #Mean

Its better to wear out than to rust out.
-- Richard Cumberland

#Birthday #Rust #Labor

All other men, being born of woman, have a navel, by reason of the umbilical vessels inserted into it, which from the placenta carry nourishment to children in the womb of their mothers; but it could not be so with our first parents. It cannot be believed that God gave them navels which would have been altogether useless.
-- Richard Cumberland

#God #Mother #Children

The art of being agreeable frequently miscarries through the ambition which accompanies it. Wit, learning, wisdom,--what can more effectually conduce to the profit and delight of society? Yet I am sensible that a man may be too invariably wise, learned, or witty to be agreeable; and I take the reason of this to be, that pleasure cannot be bestowed by the simple and unmixed exertion of any one faculty or accomplishment.
-- Richard Cumberland

#Wise #Witty #Art

It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?

I love it when the Bible gives Emily Post-like tips that are both wise and easy to follow.

Wise criticism always begins with self-criticism.

This bread and wine are the simple but eloquent monument to the infinite love of the Son of God, around which we gather with tender, tearful gratitude, because He loved us'so, and because we know that our garlands of affection and consecration are pleasing to Him.

Our lives are filled with meeting wonderful people. Make sure those that have become a part of your life hear your words of appreciation.

Gratitude is the appreciation of what is, of life, of existence, of anybody and anything, for just the way it is.

He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.

Rather than getting more spoilt with age, as difficulties pile up, epiphanies of gratitude abound.

Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.

Humility means that one should not be anxious to have the satisfaction of being honored by others.