Sermon quotes on Advice
Yogi Berra (Attributed)
When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
Ambrose Bierce
Advice, n. The smallest current coin.
The Cynic’s Word Book (1906)
Lord Chesterfield
Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it to he most always like it the least.
Letters to his Son, January 1748
G.K. Chesterton
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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Desiderius Erasmus (Attributed)
Don’t give your advice before you are called upon.
A.E. Houseman
And malt does more than Milton can
To justify God’s ways to man.
Ale, man, ale’s the stuff to drink
For fellows whom it hurts to think.
A Shrophsire Lad
Harry Ironside
The Gospel is not good advice to be obeyed, it is good news to be believed.
Sermon: What is the Gospel?
Jerome K. Jerome
We drink one another’s health, and spoil our own.
Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow
Woodrow Kroll
Free advice is sometimes the most costly kind.
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Jack Adams
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.
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Mark Twain
It is better to give than receive — especially advice.
Hannah Whitall Smith
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.
Dr. Ian Malcom (Jeff Goldblum)
“Hey, you want some good parental advice? Don’t listen to me.”
The Lost World: Jurassic Park
A.W. Tozer
We need never shout across the spaces to an absent God. He is nearer than our own soul, closer than our most secret thoughts.
The Pursuit of God: The Human Thirst for the Divine
Oscar Wilde
I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
An Ideal Husband
Hannah Whitall Smith
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.
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