Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

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"Giving is true loving."

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"It has been well said that our anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength."

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"Can any man here estimate the number of his own sins from the first transgression of his childhood until grey old age, or the present period of his life?"

- Charles Spurgeon

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"The day we find the perfect church, it becomes imperfect the moment we join it."

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"If you believe in prayer at all, expect God to hear you. If you do not expect, you will not have. God will not hear you unless you believe He will hear you; but if you believe He will, He will be as good as your faith."

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"Knowledge is not power. The implementation of knowledge is power."

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