Quotes related to Proverbs 3:5
There are nowadays professors of philosophy, but not philosophers. Yet it is admirable to profess because it was once admirable to live.
— Henry David Thoreau
We shall see but little if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!
— Henry David Thoreau
We should go forth on the shortest walk, perchance, in the spirit of undying adventure, never to return—prepared to send back our embalmed hearts only as relics to our desolate kingdoms.
— Henry David Thoreau
When we consider what, to use the words of the catechism, is the chief end of man, and what are the true necessaries and means of life, it appears as if men had deliberately chosen the common mode of living because they preferred it to any other. Yet they honestly think there is no choice left. But alert and healthy natures remember that the sun rose clear. It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
— Henry David Thoreau
Men have become the tools of their tools.
— Henry David Thoreau
I value and trust those w^ho love and praise my aspiration rather than my performance.
— Henry David Thoreau
The farmer is endeavoring to solve the problem of a livelihood by a formula more complicated than the problem itself. To get his shoestrings he speculates in herds of cattle.
— Henry David Thoreau
This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre. . . . When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is never too late to give up your prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof.
— Henry David Thoreau
Most fear is fear of the unknown. We do not know what lies ahead of us, so we become apprehensive. Our imaginations can magnify problems until they seem insurmountable. We need a sound mind to see things in proper perspective. That is why God gave us His Holy Spirit, to enable us to see things as God sees them.
— Henry Blackaby
When our faith is based primarily on the wisdom of men and not on the power of God, we've just nullified most of what God intended for our lives. When our faith is built only on a collection of doctrines, we miss out on the Person who wants to be our life.
— Henry Blackaby
The willingness to obey every word from God is critical to hearing God speak.
— Henry Blackaby