Ray Lyman Wilbur famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.
-- Ray Lyman Wilbur

#Thinking #Generosity #Missing
It is not how much you know about life but how you live your life that counts. Those who can avoid mistakes by observing the mistakes of others are most apt to keep free from sorrow. In a world full of uncertainties, the record of what has gone before-human experience-is as sure and reliable as anything of which we know.
-- Ray Lyman Wilbur

#Mistake #Live Your Life #Sorrow
The potential possibilities of any child are the most intriguing and stimulating in all creation.
-- Ray Lyman Wilbur

#Children #Intriguing #Creation
We must get rid of the silly, sloppy idea that all people are equal in capacity.
-- Ray Lyman Wilbur

#Silly #Ideas #People
It is common talk that every individual is entitled to economic security. The only animals and birds I know that have economic security are those that have been domesticated--and the economic security they have is controlled by the barbed-wire fence, the butcher's knife and the desire of others. They are milked, skinned, egged or eaten up by their protectors.
-- Ray Lyman Wilbur

#Animal #Knives #Bird

Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
If our animosities are born out of fear, then confident generosity is born out of hope. One of the central lessons I have learned after a half century of working in the developing world is that the replacement of fear by hope is probably the single most powerful trampoline of progress.
Good-humor and, generosity carry day with the popular heart all the world over.
Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.
I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.
He stopped and looked back at me "I love you too Pagan. I'll miss you. In every life.
The amount of missing girls I've had to trace and their family and their friends always say the same thing. 'She was a bright and affectionate disposition and had no men friends'. That's never true. It's unnatural. Girls ought to have men friends. If not, then there's something wrong about them....

Ray Lyman Wilbur famous quotes

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