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The merchant Guyot lived and died in the town of Marseilles in France. He amassed a large fortune by the most laborious industry and by habits of the severest abstinence and privation. His neighbors considered him a miser and thought he was hoarding up money from mean and avaricious motives. The populace, whenever he appeared, pursued him with hootings and execrations, and the boys sometimes threw stones at him. At length he died and in his will were found the following words: “Having observed from my infancy that the poor of Marseilles are badly supplied with water which they can only purchase at a high price, I have cheerfully labored the whole of my life to procure for them this great blessing, and I direct that the whole of my property be laid out in building an aqueduct for their use.”
We usually admire the other fellow more after we have tried to do his job.
One of the easiest habits for any human being to acquire is the habit of criticising others.–Spiros Zodhiates
How lamentable is the way we praise the dead saints & persecute the living ones!
Aesop has a fable of three bulls that fed in a field together in the greatest peace and safety. A lion had long watched them in the hope of making prey of them, but found little chance so long as they kept together. He therefore began secretly to spread evil and slanderous reports of one against another till he fomented jealousy and distrust among them. Soon they began to avoid each other and each took to feeding alone. This gave the lion the opportunity it had been wanting. He fell on them singly and made an easy prey of them all.
It is true of God’s people that–”united, they stand; divided, they fall.” (Ps.133.1; 1Cor.1.10)
To avoid criticism say nothing, do nothing, be nothing!
When you deplore the condition of the World, ask yourself, “Am I part of the problem or part of the solution?”
A lady came to the judge because she wanted to divorce her husband. There were many little things in their relationship which she thought good enough reasons to break up their marriage, so when the judge asked, “Well, what is wrong?” the lady answered, “Oh, he doesn’t hang up his clothes & he sometimes sits at the table without having washed his hands … ,” & on & on & on & on. But when the judge asked her, “Well, is he a good father to the children & does he provide well?” She only could answer those important questions positively, so the judge suggested that she go home & in the following 30 days to really think of the good things & see the good things in her husband. And then afterwards if she still thought she wanted to be divorced, she should come back again. But the judge never saw her again!–What a wise judge! It’s so often the little thins which break up relationships, so let’s think of those things which are of good report!
He criticized her pudding,
He didn’t like her cake,
He wished that she’d make biscuits
Like Mother used to make.
She didn’t wash the dishes,
She didn’t make a stew,
And she didn’t darn his socks
Like Mother used to do.
So when one day he went the
Same ole rigmarole through,
She turned & boxed his ears,
Just like Mother used to do.
