Counsel Quotes

• My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Pleasure
  • Counsel
  • Compose

• Diversity in counsel, unity in command.

  

  Cyrus the Great
  • Diversity
  • Unity
  • Command

• The mind of the greatest man on earth is not so independent of circumstances as not to feel inconvenienced by the merest buzzing noise about him; it does not need the report of a cannon to disturb his thoughts. The creaking of a vane or a pully is quite enough. Do not wonder that he reasons ill just now; a fly is buzzing by his ear; it is quite enough to unfit him for giving good counsel.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Mind
  • Circumstances
  • Report

• Miracle workers learn to keep their own counsel. Something that's important to know about spiritual wisdom is that, when spoken at the wrong time, in the wrong place, or to the wrong person, the one who speaks sounds more like a fool than a wise one.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • Important
  • Wisdom

• No man will take counsel, but every man will take money. Therefore, money is better than counsel.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Money
  • Man
  • Counsel

• We will and concede for us and all our heirs and successors, by the common counsel, assent and consent of the prelates, magnates, earls and barons and communities of our realm in our parliament that the Kingdom of Scotland, shall remain for ever separate in all respects from the Kingdom of England, in its entirety, free and in peace, without any kind of subjection, servitude, claim or demand.

  

  Edward III of England
  • Respect
  • England
  • Communities

• ...we benignly wish that all and each of the natives of the kingdom who will subject themselves willingly to us, as the true King of France according to wise counsel, before next Easter, offering due fidelity etc. to us, as King of France, performing their duties...should be admitted to our peace and grace and to our special protection and defence.

  

  Edward III of England
  • King
  • Protection
  • Kingdom

• Prayer in the hour of need is a great boon. From simple trials to our Gethsemanes, prayer - persistent prayer - can put us in touch with God, our greatest source of comfort and counsel.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Counsel

• I have come to rely on Ed Welch and others at CCEF for guidance and insight in better understanding the issues of the soul that plague many people today. For those who want to address more than just the symptoms of depression, Ed's counsel is invaluable.

  

  Bob Lepine
  • Soul
  • Depression
  • Issues

• Men of much depth of mind can bear a great deal of counsel; for it does not easily deface their own character, nor render their purposes indistinct.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Indistinct

• Adequate early rest is best...."Early to bed and early to rise" is still good counsel.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Rise
  • Counsel
  • Adequate

• If you're going to counsel people - and that's all my ministry is, it's a counseling ministry more than anything else - people have to believe that they can trust you and that they can listen to you, that you're going to try to help them and not just politically try to convert them to your views.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • People
  • Going
  • Counsel

• Where two take counsel there is no lack of plans.

  

  Silius Italicus
  • Plan
  • Lack
  • Counsel

• We counsel you, young men, not to pollute your minds with such degrading matter, for the mind through which this filth passes is never the same afterwards. Don't see R-rated movies or vulgar videos or participate in any entertainment that is immoral, suggestive, or pornographic. Don't listen to music that is degrading.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Music
  • Entertainment
  • Videos

• Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking.

  

  George Eliot
  • Wind
  • Speaking
  • Counsel

• I counsel you, in the words of Jesus Christ, to "watch and pray I always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan desireth to have you, that he may sift you as wheat" (3 Nephi 18:18). If you will earnestly seek guidance from your Heavenly Father, morning and evening, you will be given the strength to shun any temptation.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Temptation
  • Pray
  • Jesus Christ

• For over forty years, in a spirit of love, members of the Church have been counseled to be thrifty and self-reliant; to avoid debt; pay tithes and a generous fast offering; be industrious; and have sufficient food, clothing, and fuel on hand to last at least one year. Today there are compelling reasons to reemphasize this counsel.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Church
  • Reasons
  • Spirit Of Love

• The Lord has warned and forewarned us against a day of great tribulation and given us counsel, through His Servants, on how we can be prepared for these difficult times. Have we heeded His counsel?

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • The Lord
  • Servants
  • Tribulation

• I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Knowing
  • Choosing
  • Contriving

• Carefully choose your friends, your counsel, and your place of worship. Avoid those whose belief system is devoid of answers for life's everyday problems. Never accept the mindset that persecution and suffering are the will of God; they are the weapons of the devil who is hell-bent on distracting you from God's amazing plan for your life.

  

  Brian Houston
  • Friends
  • Problems
  • Place of worship

• As to your families my counsel is, never lay down your authority to a wife or child, but treat them so kindly they will never want to leave you.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Wife
  • Child
  • Authority

• A dead father's counsel, a wise son heedeth.

  

  Esaias Tegner
  • Son
  • Wise
  • Dead

• From the standpoint of food production, storage, handling, and the Lord's counsel, wheat should have high priority. Water, of course, is essential. Other basics could include honey or sugar, legumes, milk products or substitutes, and salt or its equivalent.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Priority
  • Salt
  • Equivalent

• Husbands, recognize your wife's intelligence and her ability to counsel with you as a real partner regarding family plans, family activities, and family budgeting. Don't be stingy with your time or with your means. Give her the opportunity to grow intellectually, emotionally, and socially as well as spiritually.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Family
  • Opportunity
  • Emotionally

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