George Sweeting famous quotes

I lose my temper, but it's all over in a minute," said the student. "So is the hydrogen bomb," I replied. "But think of the damage it produces!
-- George Sweeting

#Anger #Thinking #Bombs

Experts in aging make a distinction between passive aging and purposeful aging. Successful, purposeful aging calls for continued involvement, relationships, discipline, and an attitude of faith.
-- George Sweeting

#Attitude #Successful #Discipline

Abraham Lincoln once walked down the street with his two sons, both of whom were crying. "What's the matter with you boys?" asked a passerby. "Exactly what is wrong with the whole world," said Lincoln. "I have three walnuts, and each boy wants two."
-- George Sweeting

#Son #Boys #Two

I have four sons whom I love dearly. Suppose our lawn needed to be cut. I could say, "Boys, can you see the need? The grass is high. It's above my knees. Soon I will not be able to get to the garage. Don't you see the desperate need?" But in the final analysis, they get out the mower because their father says, "Mow the grass!" World evangelization is an imperative because Jesus said so.
-- George Sweeting

#Jesus #Father #Son

In seventeen of His thirty-seven parables, Jesus dealt with property and man's responsibility for using it wisely.
-- George Sweeting

#Jesus #Responsibility #Men

If you're consumed with God's life, if you share his love with others, if you practice it each day, you too can start a revolution of love in your own home, in your own church, in your own neighborhood.
-- George Sweeting

#Home #Practice #Church

What do you conceive God to be like? Some would say to believe at all in a personal God requires a giant leap of faith - but I am convinced that belief in God is a far more reasonable position than atheism. Nature, the personal experience of literally billions of people, and something innate in the heart of man all testify to the existence of God.
-- George Sweeting

#Believe #Heart #Men

There is not in nature, a thing that makes man so deformed, so beastly, as doth intemperate anger.

If, on a rare occasion, it is necessary to speak with some severity in order to make a grievous crime felt, we should always, at the conclusion of the rebuke, add some kind words. We must heal wounds, as the Samaritan did, with wine and oil. But as oil floats above all other liquors, so meekness should predominate in all our actions.

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.

The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.

I'm nothing you can catch now. I am black powder, I am singe, I am the bomb that bursts the night.

Jerusalem is a time bomb that I fear is just waiting to go off.

With society and its public, there is no longer any other language than that of bombs, barricades, and all that follows.