advice on Wise Counsel

A wise man seeks much counsel ... a fool listens to all of it.

It’s a warning people have understood for centuries. Some advice needs to be taken “with a grain of salt.” Ever wondered what was meant by that? In ancient times, salt was hard to come by, expensive, ...

The only Christian you want to listen to is the one who gives you more of a hunger for God.

My counselor gave me the strangest advice a few months ago. Almost out of the blue, she said, “You should start waiting in the longest lines you can find.” She meant everywhere—at the grocery store, g...

The kings Of history are rewarded with many impressive descriptors: majestic, exalted, glorious, sovereign. Men and women bow before such heights of nobility; even the eyes of wealth and status fall t...

There’s a story out there about an angel that showed up at a seminary faculty meeting. In order to honor the dean, who had been a man of unselfish and exemplary behavior, the angel said God had decide...

To believe one does not need counsel is great pride.

Free advice is sometimes the most costly kind.

If it’s free, it’s advice; if you pay for it, it’s counseling; if you can use either one, it’s a miracle.

It is the privilege of adults to give advice. It is the privilege of youth not to listen. Both avail themselves of their privileges, and the world rocks along.

Don't give your advice before you are called upon.

Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it to he most always like it the least.

It is better to give than receive — especially advice.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

The true secret in giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never persist in trying to set people right.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

The famous poem The Charge of the Light Brigade includes these haunting lines: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred… Someone had blundered. Theirs not to reason why, ...

The story is told of a learned professor who went to visit an old monk who was famous for his wisdom. The monk graciously welcomed him into his temple and offered him a seat on a cushion. No sooner ha...

“Hey, you want some good parental advice? Don’t listen to me.”

There once was a popular shaman in India whom people would seek out for advice. People would stand in line for hours, waiting to hear the choices they should make in their lives or the changes that wo...

We drink one another’s health, and spoil our own.

Early in his career, St. Francis of Assisi was in great agony of doubt about how to proceed. Should he devote himself to prayer and meditation alone or to preach? A humble man, he sought out the wisdo...

Advice, n. The smallest current coin.

Writer Harriet Sarnoff Schiff has distilled her pain and tragedy in a book called The Bereaved Parent. When her young son died during an operation to correct a congenital heart malfunction, her clergy...

A young man won admission to college. Instead of writing a letter of congratulations, his father penned this note: Now it is a good thing to put this business very plainly before you. Do not think I...

After the ship has sunk, a consultant knows how it might have been saved.

The Gospel is not good advice to be obeyed, it is good news to be believed.

We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts”

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

“When your mother asks, ‘Do you want a piece of advice?’ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.”