RECOGNITION "I don't want to hear another word!" I hear my daughter scold. "Dear me!" I think, "She's awfully strict For a playful three-year-old!" She rolls her big eyes heavenward And sighs with great disdain…
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MOTHER I think it was a girlish hand, Unlined, well-tended, when it held At first, my clinging baby hand In gentle grasps by love impelled. I think it was a youthful face That bent above…
THE DEGREE OF FORGIVENESS We pardon in the degree that we love. Francois del la Rochefoucauld
APOLOGY An apology is a good way to have the last word."
ENEMIES AND FRIENDS In the days of the American Revolution, a Baptist minister, Peter Miller, enjoyed the friendship of General Washington. In the same town in which Miller lived was a man named Michael Wittman,…
BUYING FORGIVENESS The mother of two young boys was having difficulty disciplining the younger son. Because he was bigger than his older brother he had developed the bad habit of using his superior size to…
WHAT PRICE REVENGE? Some years ago, during a visit to Yellowstone Park, one writer observed that the only animal that the grizzly bear would share his food with was a skunk. It wasn't that the…
PLACING BLAME The man who blames others for his problems hasn't begun his education. The man who blames himself has begun his education. And the man who blames no one has finished his education.
OBJECTIVITY General Robert E. Lee was asked what he thought of a fellow officer in the Confederate Army who had made some derogatory remarks about him. Lee rated him as being very satisfactory. The person…
UNDERSTANDABLE COURAGE Maurice bragged, "I'm not afraid of anything. Once I even cut off a lion's tail with my pen knife." Someone asked, "Why didn't you cut off his head?" Maurice looked a bit sheepish.…
OBEDIENCE TO GOD The following is a letter quoted in Dobson's Focus on the Family publication from a reader named Jacque: Dear Dr. Dobson, I was married to a nonbeliever for 14 years in what…
MOTTO OF THE FRENCH FOREIGN LEGION If I falter, push me on. If I stumble, pick me up. If I retreat, shoot me.
WANTED: HUNDRED MEN John Wesley said, "Give me a hundred men who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I will shake the world. I care not a straw whether they be…
THERE ARE VARIOUS MOTIVATIONS FOR COURAGE My cousin wrote from New York describing an incident that happened to her son Buck in NYC. A couple of weeks ago he was walking from the bus depot…
SELF-DECEPTION Before God can deliver us from ourselves we must undeceive ourselves. Augustine
TRIBULATION God's fastest road to patience, character, hope, confidence, and genuine love. (See Romans 5:1-6)
PRAYER is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view. Ralph Waldo Emerson
THE CYNICAL VIEW OF REPENTANCE Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of consequences. La Rochefoucauld
THE JOY OF THE REPENTANT HEART When the soul has laid down its faults at the feet of God, it feels as though it had wings. Eugenie de Guerin
THE END OF CONFESSION It is an abuse to confess any kind of sin, whether mortal or venial, without a will to be delivered from it, since confession was instituted for no other end. St.…
