Wisdom for Living: Timeless Advice from Fr. Bonachristus Umeogu
By Okafor Benjamin
In a world filled with challenges and uncertainties, it's refreshing to reflect on timeless wisdom that guides us towards a life of purpose and fulfillment. Fr. Bonachristus Umeogu shares these insightful reflections to inspire and uplift:
1. If bad things keep happening in your life, despite your goodness. Keep on avoiding evil and doing good. Late or soon, that seemingly bad destiny must turn to good. AMEN.
2. Self realization is attained through constant self improvement. One can realize his or her self through constant self experience of reality. AMEN.
3. Those who want to change the world should not say it, they should do it. They should become the change they want us to see. AMEN.
4. If something really belongs to you, it must get to you. Do not struggle to get what belongs to you. It is already your own. AMEN.
5. No one knows the exact difference between illness and disease. You can go to the doctor with illness and come back with disease. May God help us. AMEN.
6. Somebody cannot make you happy or sad without your permission. Everything depends on you and God. Always be happy for your Maker. Do not permit anyone to make you sad. Sadness will unmake you. In the name of God, take total control of your attitude. AMEN.
7. Good dress cannot reveal good character, yet without good dress, good character cannot be open to sight.
8. If your mode of dressing tells us everything you are, we can no longer talk about what you have.
9. Habit makes a culture out of you, so make sure the right habit drives your life, so that your culture will be your destiny. AMEN.
10. If neither the vice of poverty can destroy your virtue of wealth, nor the vice of wealth destroy your virtue of poverty, then you are a human being.
11. Every change comes with pain, no wonder every beginning is difficult and every end is tasking. Always get to your goal with the same change you started with.
12. If what you have is who you are, you cannot lose anything that you have, without losing yourself. Be confident, you cannot lose yourself. AMEN.
13. When an idea is true, it cannot die. It cannot die because it is true. It is true because it cannot die. So do not waste your life trying to kill a true idea.
14. Stagnancy is the death of life. So, if you want to live, be active and productive. Stagnancy is death.
15. Obu mkpuru onu-ogu ka eji ekpoko ife uwa. Onwero ife aguru onu n'uwa. Obu oke igutara obulu nke gi. Oke ikpokotara, obulu oke gi.
16. What belongs to everyone belongs to no one. That is why everyone tries hard to become no one in what belongs to everyone. Everyone and no one are two sides of all of us. Be yourself.
17. We choose our friends but cannot choose our neighbours. Our friends are chosen by what we are, but our neighbours are chosen by who we are.
18. When you say that you are sick, what you have is illness; but when the doctor says you are sick, what you have is disease. Never let your your illness turn to sickness.
19. Be satisfied with who you are, so that what belongs to you can be yours; for if you do not accept yourself, you cannot have anything.
20. There are three kinds of thorns in the flesh: the thorn put by you; the thorn put by others; and the thorn put by the OTHER. You can remove the thorn put by yourself. You can remove the one put by others with their help. But the OTHER thorn is removed by ITSELF.
21. Love is the foundation of indestructible life. If you build your life on any other foundation, it will be destroyed by love.
22. Every new idea is painful because it stretches the mind. If you endure the pain, your gain is assured.
23. God made man or a living soul, so that man or woman will live with his or her soul. Live with your soul and become fully alive.
24. Authority makes power lawful, power makes authority active. Therefore use authority with power, and power with authority, so that you you can rule your world; and by so doing, rule the world.
25. What lies within you is greater than what lies behind you and what lies before you and what lies by your side. So, move with God and yourself and nothing can stop you.
26. There is, to be sure, no past or present or future to life and change. Change a bad life by a good action. Only change stands between what is good and bad in life.
27. Success is using who you are to get what you can have. For whenever what you can get determines who you are, we cannot talk about you again.
28. Allow who you are to manage what you have. For whenever what you have becomes your manager, you will always lose yourself.
29. Whoever wishes you good and then gets angry, jealous or wicked when you are good is a dangerous enemy.
30. If you believe and say something will happen in your life, it will happen. Whatever happens in your life, lies between what you believe and what you say.
31. If you want to improve yourself, speak to and listen to others; for when you speak and listen to yourself alone, you become an island.
32. Temptations of life can come from God or the devil; but while the Almighty God tempts us to promote us, the fiendish one tempts us to destroy us; but God will deliver us from the evil one. Amen.
33. Let the quality of your love transcend each hurt and every hatred; and nothing and l say, no-thing, can change your character and love.
Let's embrace these words of wisdom and live a life of purpose, love, and resilience 🌟.
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