Criticism | Humor | Praise | Short Shorts
PRAISE/CRITICISM The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. Norman Vincent Peale
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Aging | Criticism | Humor | Short Shorts | Youth
HOW TO STAY HEALTHY THOUGH AGED The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people and greatly assists in the circulation of the blood.
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Complain | Criticism | Joy | Peace | Rest
ON THE RIGHT TO BE UNHAPPY W. H. Auden expresses contempt for the happiness of a crowing rooster. Hearing ‘A cock pronouncing himself though all his sons had been castrated
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Commitment | Criticism | Humility | Pride | Priorities | Self
A NOVEL REACTION TO CRITICISM Jamie Buckingham writes in Coping With Criticism: For a number of years, until her death in 1976, I worked off and on with Kathryn Kuhlman
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Appealing Talk | Appearance | Criticism | Humor | Love | Marriage
PLAN AHEAD A man in his middle years was on a Caribbean cruise. On the first day out he noticed an attractive woman about his age who smiled at him
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Adversity | Communication | Compromise | Criticism | Failure | Humor | Weakness | Youth
THERE’S MORE THAN ONE WAY TO SKIN A CAT Some time ago I received a call from a colleague asking if I would be the referee on the grading of
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Criticism | Excuses | Guidance | Humor | Love
REJECTION — DON’T TAKE IT PERSONALLY Some girls in a college dorm had the problem of what to do when they wanted to turn down a date from someone they
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Burden | Criticism | Desire | Discouragement | Humor
GOALS, SHORT TERM Charlie Brown is at bat. STRIKE THREE. He has struck out again and slumps over to the bench. “Rats! I’ll never be a big-league player. I just
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Criticism | Short Shorts
BLAME Some people find fault as if it were buried treasure.
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Complain | Criticism | Humor | Marriage | Peace
A CRITICAL SPIRIT Then there’s the story of the conscientious wife who tried very hard to please her ultra- critical husband, but failed regularly. He always seemed the most cantankerous
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Apathy | Complain | Criticism | Desire | Humor
EXCELLENCE / MEDIOCRITY A resident in a seaside-hotel breakfast room called over the headwaiter one morning and said, “I want two boiled eggs, one of them so undercooked it’s runny,
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Anger | Bitterness | Complain | Criticism | Hate | Servanthood
ANGER Anger in particular seems close to a professional vice in the contemporary ministry. Pastors are angry at their leaders for not leading and at their followers for not following.
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Complain | Criticism | Humor | Motivation | Service | Sports
GET INVOLVED — FISH STORY The following story was sent in by Richard Risser of Jenkintown, PA. 19046 It was about the man who always seemed to bring home a
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Complain | Criticism | Humor | Peace | Thanks
THE ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE In some parts of Mexico hot springs and cold springs are found side by side – – and because of the convenience of this natural phenomenon
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Atonement | Complain | Criticism | Judgment | Justice | Violence
GOD LEADS A PRETTY SHELTERED LIFE Billions of people were scattered on a great plain before God’s throne. Some of the groups near the front talked heatedly — not with
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Blessing | Complain | Criticism | Praise | Thanks
DOUBLE MESSAGE NOTED A man sat down to supper with his family, saying grace, thanking God for the food, for the hands which prepared it, and for the source of
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Complain | Criticism | Humor
THE CRITIC British columnist Bernard Levin, commenting on the taste of two music critics: “If this pair had been present at the miracle of the loaves and fishes, one of
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Complain | Criticism | Humor | Perspective | Preaching
THE PERFECT PASTOR Results of a computerized survey indicate that the perfect pastor preaches exactly 15 minutes. He condemns sin, but never embarrasses anyone. He works from 8 a.m. until
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Complain | Criticism | Lost | Perspective | Self | Understanding
PERSPECTIVE There was a distraught woman staying at a Boston hotel who one day telephoned the manager: “I am dizzy, faint, and at my wit’s end. Someone in the next
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Apathy | Apostasy | Church | Criticism | Grief
WHY ARE YOU BLUSHING? Raphael was painting his famous Vatican frescoes when a couple of cardinals stopped by to criticize. “The face of the Apostle Paul is too red,” one
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