J. C. Macaulay famous quotes

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
-- J. C. Macaulay

#Men #Giving #Advice

Keep your heart right, even when it is sorely wounded.
-- J. C. Macaulay

#Single #Being Single #Heart

Never allow your own sorrow to absorb you, but seek out another to console, and you will find consolation.
-- J. C. Macaulay

#Sorrow #Consolation

One of the marks of true greatness is the ability to develop greatness in others.
-- J. C. Macaulay

#Greatness #Mark #Ability

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.
-- J. C. Macaulay

#Forgiveness #Long #May

It is good to pray for the repair of mistakes, but praying earlier would keep us from making so many. When puzzled, go to prayer and listen.
-- J. C. Macaulay

#Prayer #Mistake #Praying

We may not preach a crucified Saviour without being also crucified men and women. It is not enough to wear an ornamental cross as a pretty decoration. The cross that Paul speaks about was burned into his very flesh, was branded into his being, and only the Holy Spirit can burn the true cross into our innermost life.

We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.

When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.

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

Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.

Lots of people will give you advice... and depending upon how well they know you, the advice might be valid or not so valid.

It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.