EXPERIENCE It seems that Hank, a landscape contractor, had his first full-fledged job. Of course he didn't want to appear to be the rank amateur he knew he was. So he feigned a casual kind…
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TO CHANGE THE FACE OF THE EART H. True stories are always the ones that have great impact. One such story that I found quite inspiring is Colonel Heath Bottomly's story, Prodigal Father, published by…
HOW TO BE A SUCCESS J. Paul Getty's Formula For Success: "Rise early, work late and strike oil!"
FROM THE CURRENT NEWS Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle gives the quote of the week honors to our Senator Sam Hayakawa (noted for sleeping in Congress). In the course of an interview on…
DISTORTION Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. Mark Twain.
HUMILITY Of course, one of the greatest sources of modern illustration is the delightful comic strip Peanuts by Charles Schultz. One of my favorites shows Linus and Charlie Brown sitting and talking about their plans…
RESURRECTION But when it comes to resurrection - there's no doubt one of my all time favorite stories is one you well might have read either in Martin Mary's CONTEXT or in Sources and Resources…
COMPROMISE OR OPPORTUNITY Jack Longley, Presbyterian Pastor from San Jose, California recently sent me a clipping from the local classified section. One of his members had clipped it out and passed it on to him.…
It's tremendous to be learning that no matter how big you see things or how simple you keep them you'll never reach the ultimate. No man has ever seen things as big as they could…
PRAYER I know not by what methods rare, But this I know: God answers prayer I know not if the blessing sought Will come in just the guise I thought. I leave my prayer to…
PRAYER More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Wherefore, let thy voice Rise like a fountain for me night and day. For what are men better than sheep or goats That…
PRAYER I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere elso to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.
PRAYER Prayer is not overcoming God's reluctance; it is laying hold of his highest willingness. Archbishop Trench
PRAYER It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with B. We must lay before him what is in us, not what ought…
MISSED OPPORTUNITIES The other day I ran across the story of a man who had a great opportunity that he missed. His friend took him for a ride one day-way out in the country. They…
AND HE DID Born on a Kansas farm and educated in a one-room school, he lived a tough and difficult existence as a boy. Glenn and his brother kept the school's fire going, and one…
UNASHAMED LOVE We have some friends who have a little boy who was born with a severe handicap that would cause him to go into very violent seizures without any warning. The father would usually…
THANKS FOR THE HELP Friends of a young mother, who had just given birth to her third child, were surprised when they received the following 'Thank you' note: "Many thanks for the play pen. It…
LEGACY When the will of Henry J. Heinz, wealthy distributor of the famous "57 Varieties" line, was read, it was found to contain the following confession: Looking forward to the time when my earthly career…
THE DOMINATION OF LOVE It was early morning before breakfast when a youngster walks onto a newly cleaned floor with muddy feet, hands behind his back. Just as mother, who stayed up last night to…
