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MANY QUARTERBACKS At football games other players are far outnumbered by quarterbacks; two on the field, four on the bench and hundreds in the stands.

Children | Criticism | Divorce | Encouragement | Family | Parenting

VALIDATION OF CHILDREN Markman says he finds it amazing that “the amount of validation, empathy and support that people communicate and exchange doesn’t predict well to anything. However, the amount

Action | Care | Church | Criticism | Encouragement | Guard | Love | Ministry | Needs

LOVE THEM ALL Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low-spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused,

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VOLUNTARY SACRIFICE When a boy gets up at 4:00 in the morning to deliver papers, most people say he is a go-getter. If the church should ask that same boy

Advice | Anger | Authority | Criticism | Humor | Patience | Solutions | StorySports

UMPIRES & CATCHERS Veteran American League baseball umpire Bill Guthrie was working behind the plate one afternoon, and the catcher for the visiting team was repeatedly protesting his calls. Guthrie

Character | Comparison | Criticism | Deceit | Deception | Emotions | Relationships | Self

EQUAL JUDGMENTS Sometimes we are moved by passion and think it zeal. We blame small things in others, and pass over greater things in ourselves. Quickly enough we feel and

Church | Criticism | Discipline | Judgment | Judgments | Purity

CHURCH DISCIPLINE Matthew Henry, the great commentator, wrote concerning church discipline: “What light proud scorners may make of the censures of the church, let them know that they are confirmed

Character | Complain | Complaints | Criticism | Faults | Grumbling | Self | Speech | Weakness

SIMPLICITY OF FAULT-FINDING Nothing is easier than fault-finding. No talent, no self-denial, no brains, no character, are required to set up in the grumbling business.

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THUMBLESS SCALES Rare is the person who can weigh the faults of others without putting his thumb on the scales. By Byron J. Langenfield

Comparison | Criticism | Emotions | Judgment | Self | Short Shorts

UNHEALTHY COMPARISONS Comparisons are unhealthy because we compare our insides with their outsides.

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A LESSON FROM A TRAMP I want to share with you a little story: An outstanding Christian, invited to speak at a women’s luncheon, startled the ladies by telling them

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POSITION OF PATIENCE Patience: Admirable quality in the driver behind you. Impossible to understand in the one ahead of you. From The Rotarian, July, 1994 and

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POLITICAL FAMILY TREES Cheapest way to trace a family tree: Run for a political office. From The Rotarian, July, 1994 and

Choice | Criticism | Desire | Election | Ethnicity | Godliness | Jews | Leadership | Salvation | Story

ONLY ZIONISTS ALLOWED When the British were overseeing Palestine in the 1930’s, they arranged for Dr. Chaim Weizmann to control the permits required to enter Palestine legally. Weizmann was criticized

Aging | Attitude | Criticism | Cynics | Loss | Short Shorts | Youth

CYNICISM OR YOUTH The day a person becomes a cynic is the day he loses his youth. — Marvin D. Levy

Correction | Creation | Creativity | Criticism | Discipline | Edification | Encouragement

CREATIVE OR CRITICAL Let your EMPHASIS be on the CREATIVE AND THE CONSTRUCTIVE, not on the CRITICAL and the CORRECTIVE. By J. Robert Ashcroft

Communication | Complain | Complaints | Contention | Criticism | Guidance | Unity

SECOND GUESSERS The “second guesser” group is composed of people known for their critical advice after any given project is complete. They are the cool characters who remain in the

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MODERN INCARNATION If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crucify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make

Church | Criticism | Deceit | Division | Satan | Story | Strife

THE STRENGTH OF THE RABBIT Barbara Hayes in Folk Tales and Fables of the World spins this tale about a tricky rabbit: Once, long ago, there was a very cunning

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FRIENDS & FAULTS Thou mayest be sure that he who in private will tell thee of thy faults, is thy friend, for he adventures thy dislike, and doth hazard thy