EXPRESSING FAITH? The late Archbishop Temple, when he was primate of England, once told this story. One morning, in a house where he was a guest, he heard from the […]
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FAITH VERSUS LUCK The other day I heard of a man whose only motivation was luck. He tried to make a living by gambling in the lottery, and indeed, he
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DEATH FROM KIDS’ PERSPECTIVES Death and dying is a subject that always is on the back burners of every mind from preschoolers to the oldest adult. Some nine-year- old children
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A CHILD’S LOGIC A five-year-old girl came home from a funeral of her grandmother, in a car with her other grandmother. “Where did Grandma go?” she asked. “We believe she
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IMMORTALITY, THE SIMPLE WAY I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying. Woody Allen
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AMAZING VERSUS BALONEY A friend attributed the secret of his popularity to one particular word. “Years ago,” he said, “upon hearing a statement with which I disagreed, I used to
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FRIENDSHIP AND FICKLENESS A girl gave her boyfriend her picture. On the back was this note: “Dearest Love: I love you more every day and I always will. I know
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FRIEND FOR SALE A farmer was detained for questioning about an election scandal. “Did you sell your vote?” the attorney asked. “No sir, not me,” the farmer protested. “I voted
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WE HELP EACH OTHER I ‘ve been reading Man of the House: The Life and Political Memoirs of Speaker Tip O’Neill this last week and he tells an old Irish
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FARMING — HARD TIMES Each of two farmers won a million dollars in the state lottery. When a reporter asked the first farmer what he was going to do with
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BE BOLD The hesitant driver, waiting for traffic to clear, came to a complete stop on a freeway ramp. The traffic thinned, but the intimidated driver still waited. Finally, an
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ATTENTION GETTERS To obtain maximum attention, it’s hard to beat a good, big mistake. David D. Hewitt, Reader’s Digest
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SHRINK RESISTANT A young man was buying a shirt in a department store. The shirt label said, “Shrink Resistant”. He asked the clerk what that meant. The clerk said, “The
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UPON MORE CAREFUL THOUGHT At a Weight Watchers meeting a new member was disappointed because she had lost only a few pounds during her first week. She complained, “A friend
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LET THEM GO An astronomer at Harvard once was giving a lecture entitled, “The Expanding Universe.” In it, he pointed out that there are galaxies greater than our “Milky Way”
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COMMUNICATION A young mother had been too busy to visit her elderly neighbor, who was ill. She said to her small son, “Johnny, run over and see how old Mrs.
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ABSTRACT ART Abstract art: a product of the untalented sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. Al Capp
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ACQUAINTANCE n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Ambrose Bierce
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WHEN IT HAPPENS TWICE The employee found ten dollars too much in his pay check, but remained quiet about the error. The following week, correcting the overpayment, the paymaster deducted
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GOVERNMENT If you think you’re getting too much government, just be thankful you’re not getting as much as you’re paying for. Modern Maturity
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