124. SQUEEZE, DON'T JERK
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The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness: but of every one that is hasty only to want (Pro.21:5).
1. Look before you leap! Squeeze, don't jerk! Stop, look and listen!
2. Learn to pause--or nothing worthwhile will catch up with you.
3. Speed even kills your chances to survive!
4. Make haste slowly.
5. Slow and steady wins the race.
6. Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
7. The only wise speed at which to live is...Godspeed.
8. If you go slow, you live longer!
9. Speed kills. Haste makes waste. Patience takes faith.
10. You may save a minute but lose a life!
11. If you go slow, you may get there quicker.--At least you'll get there.
12. Better late than never!--Better safe than sorry!
13. If you stop to look before you leap, you may not have to leap at all!
14. To climb steep hills requires slow pace at first.
15. Make sure you're following God, and not trying to rush ahead of Him to show Him the way you want Him to go!
16. The hurrier I go, the behinder I get!
17. Being in a hurry is a lack of faith.
18. Hurry is the Devil's business! He's always in a hurry and always trying to make people be in a hurry. He's trying to make the World go faster and faster all the time.
19. Either of these is dangerous--moving too fast--or not fast enough! Move with God.
20. Hurry is a mistake and is what the Devil loves to push you to do so you don't have time to test things and see it they're the Lord.
21. The Devil is the author of haste. A sudden impulse can often come straight from the Devil.
22. It is better to be a few minutes late down here than too early up there.
23. Hindsight explains the injury that foresight would have prevented.
24. It's better to be slow and do it right, than fast and do it wrong!
25. God is never in a hurry and He likes things to move slowly and gracefully and beautifully, weightlessly, in slow motion!
26. God likes certain kinds of speed--He will "speedily deliver the poor" and He can move fast when He has to! But normally He likes things to move slowly.
27. God never seems to be in a hurry! For thousands of years He's worked out His purpose and His plan.
28. Look before you leap, and don't leap before you look! Haste may make waste of all you've worked so hard for!
29. If you get into a wrothful, wrathful, writhing spirit, then things will go haywire and everything will go wrong. The answer is not in hurrying, not in the strength of the arm of flesh, not in haste that maketh waste. The answer is a meek and quite spirit that the Lord will not despise. In other words He will bless it. He despises that other spirit, the haughty, proud, hurried spirit of the World where haste always makes waste and the hurrier you go the behinder you get.
30. If you're speeding so fast and trying to get too much done instead of following the Lord & His guidance and slowing down and waiting for Him, you're running ahead of Him and you're going to crash and crack up.
31. I never like it when the Devil tries to get us in a rush! He always tries to get you in a rush because if he can make you hurry he can make you make mistakes. The Devil's own business is to try to push you and rush you, because then you're most apt to make mistakes.
32. It's better to be slow and do it right, than fast and do it wrong.
33. Making pop judgements prematurely in advance before we know, and dropping bombs on somebody, that we're going to do so-&-so, when we don't know what we're going to do, that's very foolish.
(See also No.11,74,98,169,191,838,1286,1495.)
34. PRO.14:29 He that is slow to wrath is of great understanding: but he that is hasty of spirit exalteth folly.
35. PRO.19:2b He that hasteth with his feet sinneth.
36. ECC.7:8b The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
37. ACT.19:36b Ye ought to be quiet, and to do nothing rashly.
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