Joe L. Wheeler Quotes

With age, gone are the forevers of youth. Gone is the willingness to procrastinate, delay, to play the waiting game. Now each day is a treasure beyond compare . . . because there are so few such diadems left.

Joe L. Wheeler

Love may precede respect but it cannot survive the loss of it.

Joe L. Wheeler

Time remorselessly rambles down the corridors and streets of our lives. but it is not until autumn that most of us become aware that our tickets are stamped with a terminal destination.

Joe L. Wheeler

There is something deep within us that sobs at endings. Why, God, does everything have to end? Why does all nature grow old? Why do spring and summer have to go?

Joe L. Wheeler

Man’s glory lies not, Lincoln thought, in ‘his goodness,’ for this is often nonexistent. He derives glory, instead, from his being made in the image of the Living God.

Joe L. Wheeler

Lincoln grew immeasurably as he came to think of himself as an “instrument of God’s will.

Joe L. Wheeler

When Lincoln was asked if God was on the Union’s side, Lincoln’s unvarying response was that what was really important was whether they were on God’s side.

Joe L. Wheeler

There is something incredibly nostalgic and significant about the annual cascade of autumn leaves.

Joe L. Wheeler