SMALL CARES & PRAYERS If a care is too small to be made into a prayer, it's too small to be made into a burden.
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POETS & POLITICS John F. Kennedy once said: "If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live." From a…
IMRFECTION COMPLAINS It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others. -- Joseph Addison
NO FEAR OF LOSING I learned to win by learning to lose--that means not being afraid of losing. From Jeff Blatnik, Wrestling Olympic champion, 1980 & 1984
SAVE A LITTLE MONEY Save a little money each month, and at the end of the year you'll be surprised at how little you have. -- Ernest Haskins
PARAKEET PAD A carpet-layer is exhausted after a hard day's work--his partner didn't show up and he's finally finished laying carpet in a large home all by himself. Cleaning up his tools and preparing to…
REVIVAL OR RIOT Every place the Apostle Paul went, there was either a revival or a riot. -- J. Buckingham
NOTHING WID OUT We are spinning our own fates, good or evil, and never to be undone. Every smallest stroke of virtue or of vice leaves its...scar...Nothing we ever do is, in strict scientific literalness,…
THE BLOWS BEFORE Jacob A. Riis, American social worker and author (1849- 1914): "When nothing seems to help, I go and look at the stone-cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without…
IN TOO DEEP When you are in over your head, there is no better time to keep your mouth shut. Michael Hodgin
SOME HONOR! An Episcopal priest was asked by a high school class in Cambridge, Maryland, to deliver the graduation sermon. Afterwards he spoke of the invitation as one of the truly significant moments of his…
SELF- RESTRAINT IN BUSINESS James C. Worthy, business executive, Chicago, Illinois: "The ideas of fair play and self-restraint are essentially religious. They help keep dog-eat-dog practices in check and enable the business system to operate…
COSTLY ADVICE A lawyer's dog ran into a butcher shop and stole a roast. The butcher went to the lawyer's office and asked him, "if a dog is without a leash and steals a roast…
LAWYER TIME A lawyer died and arrived at the pearly gates. To his dismay, there were thousands of people ahead of him in line to see St. Peter. To his surprise, St. Peter left his…
FIRE OF LOVE DISCOVERED Someday, after we have mastered the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love. Then for the second time in the history of…
CHRISTIAN PIETY A Christianity which concentrates on personal piety and which makes aloofness from the world's agonies a pre-requisite of that piety does more mischief in human relations than a score of atheistic cults. --…
TEE TIME FOR THE BLIND A priest, a doctor and an engineer were waiting one morning for a particularly slow group of golfers. The engineer asked: "What's with these guys? We must have been waiting…
COLOR OF AFFLICTIONS Afflictions color your life, but you choose the color. -- John Maxwell
WRONG ANSWERS A guy walks into a bar with a dog under his arm, puts the dog on the bar and announces that the dog can talk and that he has one hundred dollars he's…
TWO WRONG CHOICES More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to…
