Dorothy Kelley Patterson quotes

“If you please man and never please God, you have nothing; if you please God and man forsakes you, you have everything.”
-- Dorothy Kelley Patterson

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“My children will not remember the words of wisdom I’ve passed along over the years, nor will yours remember the good advice you’ve given. However, etched in their minds and planted in their hearts is a permanent picture of who you are and how you’ve lived before them.”
-- Dorothy Kelley Patterson

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“Hospitality has never been about having House Beautiful with perfectly coordinated accessories and the most up-to-date equipment, nor is it dependent upon having large chunks of leisure time and a big entertainment budget to spend, nor does it require special training in the culinary arts or event planning. Hospitality is about a heart for service, the creativity to stretch whatever we do have available, and the energy to give the time necessary to add a flourish to the ordinary events of life.”
-- Dorothy Kelley Patterson

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“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.”

“God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.”

“The sanctified body is one whose hands are clean. The stain of dishonesty is not on them, the withering blight of ill-gotten gain has not blistered them, the mark of violence is not found upon them. They have been separated from every occupation that could displease God or injure a fellow-man.”

“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.”

“Women, as they are like riddles in being unintelligible, so generally resemble them in this, that they please us no longer once we know them.”

“critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.”

“Please do not understand me too quickly.”

“True wisdom always leads us to please God.”

“If you desire ease, forsake learning. If you desire learning, forsake ease.”