Middle age is when broadness of mind and narrowness of the waist change places.
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Your conscience may not keep you from doing wrong, but it sure keeps you from enjoying it.
Money doesn't bring you happiness, but it enables you to look for it in more places.
Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen all at once. Albert Stewart
ABSENTEES LOVE CHURCH If absence makes the heart grow fonder, a lot of folks must love our church. By an anonymous pastor
CHANGE SELF BEFORE WORLD Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. -- Tolstoy
TOO OLD TO KNOW IT ALL I am not young enough to know everything. -- James M. Barrie
IACOCCA ON AUTHORITY Another thing that a lot of management experts advocate importing from the Far East is that the boss should be one of the boys. Democratic as that philosophy may sound, I don't…
GOD IS WITH US We do everything we can to avoid and escape pain but to live without pain is to live half alive. Pain and joy run together. When we cut ourselves off from…
UNFOXED Charles Soloman tells a story about an orphaned baby fox that a woman discovered in the country one frigid winter day. She took pity on it, carried it home, bottle-fed it, weaned it on…
CHOP IT DOWN In his book, Lee: The Last Years, Charles Bracelen Flood reports that after the Civil War, Robert E. Lee visited a Kentucky lady who took him to the remains of a grand…
GOLDILOCKS ON TRIAL "If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone. Do not take revenge, my friends, but leave room for God's wrath, for it is written,…
AWAY FROM CHURCH While on a skiing weekend vacation, we attended a community church in the mountains. The service was wonderful; the sermon was powerful. In his sermon the pastor said that he was concerned…
ONLY WAY OUT IS UP I have a farmer friend who fell into an old well about a year ago. The well was thirty feet deep, slippery and steep. When he realized what a dangerous…
CONFIDENT STUPIDITY The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell
FROM BEGINNING TO END We look at things from the perspective of time, and God is looking at things from the perspective of eternity, which is entirely out of time. We look at the passing…
EGGS IN THE WIND One day two farmers were bragging about the strongest wind they'd ever seen. "In California," said one, "I've seen the fiercest wind in my life. You know those giant redwood trees?…
WHOSE MONEY? The preacher was taking a special offering. Suddenly the town saloon owner jumped up and said, "I'll give $5,000 for the building fund!" The preacher was in a catch twenty-two situation and responded…
THE NEW CREATURE PREACHER In one of the churches I was appointed to several years ago, there was a little blonde-headed boy by the name of Barrett Lockwood, who fell in love with me and…
WHAT ARE THEY FIGHTING FOR? The tragic situation in Bosnia -- in which United States Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown and other peacemakers have given their lives -- makes even less sense in light of…
