I love reading bits of health and happiness wisdom from around the world. Here are some great old proverbs to keep in mind as you go about your week... "Fish should swim three times: in the sea, in ...
In Rob Stites updated edition of Organized Proverbs: Contrasts in Wisdom from the Holy Bible, readers are invited to apply the wisdom from the book of Proverbs, organized by topic, to their own ...
In this age of the transistor, there is a sense in which God may be said to have given us “transistorized wisdom.” The Book of Proverbs contains hundreds of verses that present truth in the smallest ...
I’ve always liked reading the book of Proverbs in the Bible. Tucked away in this book are insightful and sometimes surprising sayings. King Solomon, the son of King David, wrote many of these ...
This week’s guest on Poetry in Daily Life is Nile Stanley, PhD, who lives in Jacksonville, Florida. A teacher educator, artist-in-residence, and researcher for 36 years, he has been on a mission to ...
What does the Bible book of Proverbs, many hundreds of years old, have to say to our present world? King Solomon is considered to be the author of most of these sayings. A wise man? Yes. A king? Yes.
"The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge, but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction." — Proverbs 1:7, (World English Bible) I'm going to lay my truth right here on the line. I don't want ...
There is a proverb to suit every occasion. That may be why proverbial wisdom contradicts itself so much. If a beautiful young woman is swept off her feet by a balding nerd, we say that opposites ...
Quotes, aphorisms, proverbs or whatever you want to call them – I’m a junkie. I picked up the habit from my father, who was an Associated Press journalist. Readers of my nationally syndicated column ...