Geoffrey B. Wilson quotes

Meekness is the mark of a man who has been mastered by God.
-- Geoffrey B. Wilson

#Men #Mark #Meekness

Sincerity is the prime requisite in every approach to the God who ... hates all hypocrisy, falsehood, and deceit.
-- Geoffrey B. Wilson

#Prayer #Hate #Hypocrisy

A Godly life is always the best advertisement for Christianity.
-- Geoffrey B. Wilson

#Godly #Life Is #Christianity

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

Is it a particularly British trait to so utterly adore truly appalling men, from Tony Hancock through to Steptoe and Alf Garnett, Captain Mainwaring, Rigsby, Del Boy, Victor Meldrew and on to David Brent from The Office. The most deeply adored characters are all simply vile.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.

The worst food you'll ever eat will probably be prepared by a 'cook' who calls himself a 'chef.' Mark my words.

If Mark Twain had had Twitter, he would have been amazing at it. But he probably wouldn't have gotten around to writing Huckleberry Finn.

Aim at a high mark and you will hit it.

If there is one thing that marks families with money in the long term it is this: delayed gratification.

Meekness enables us to be led by the Spirit of God.

Meekness, the subtraction of self, reduces the multiplication of words.