DEVIL'S PLEASING SHAPE The spirit that I have seen may be a devil; and the devil hath power to assume a pleasing shape. From Hamlet, by Shakespeare
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TOO SHORT FOR LITTLE Life is too short to be little. -- Disraeli
GODLINESS SHINES The spirit of the godly rusts away unless they are well exercised by tribulations.
BEER TURNS INTO FURNITURE When a person attributes a radical change in his life to the power of Christ, it is difficult to deny its validity. In his book A Hunger for Meaning, Calvin Miller…
GOD'S IS DEEPER No pit so deep that He is not deeper still. No valley so dark that the light of His truth and love can't penetrate.
AGE & WISDOM Taught by adversity, old age, learns, too late, to be wise. Chorus in Antigone by Sophocles
TRUE CHRISTIANITY When someone becomes a Christian, he becomes a brand new person inside. He is not the same anymore. A new life has begun! True Christianity turns alcoholics into people of temperance and self…
FAMILY DEFINED Almost three quarters of the respondents to a recent Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company survey thought of a family as "a group of people who love and care for each other," not as…
SWEET SMELL OF THE JUST The garlands wither on your brow, Then boast no more your mighty deeds; Upon Death's purple altar now, See where the victor-victim bleeds; Your heads must come, To the cold…
BUREAUCRATIC ACCOMPLISHMENTS Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible. By Javier Pascual Salcedo
MOMS & TOILETS If you get an attack of importance, call your mother or scrub a toilet. Either one will put your talents in perspective.
WHAT I CAN DO I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do. Helen…
TOO FLEXIBLE You can lean over backward so far that you fall flat on your face. Ben H. Bagdikian
DUMB QUESTIONS ARE BETTER Launegayer's Observation: Asking dumb questions is easier than correcting dumb mistakes.
PRAYER HEALS The exercise of prayer, in those who habitually exert it, must be regarded by doctors as the most adequate and normal of all the pacifiers of the mind and calmers of the nerves.…
MODERNISM & FUNDAMENTALISM I am more and more convinced that Christianity has lost control of Western culture because it has failed to spend time and money on the cultivation of the mind. The result is…
THE HEART OF THE PROBLEM Nathaniel Hawthorne has a strange tale called "Earth's Holocaust." The story is about a time when the inhabitants of the earth overburdened with an accumulation of worn-out trumpery, determined to…
NEWS COVERAGE BETTER It's not the world that's got so much worse, but the news coverage that's got so much better. G. K. Chesterton
REVIVAL IN THE HOME It was into the home that sin first came. It is in the home that revival first needs to come... It is the hardest place, the most costly, but the most…
A BURR OF BITTERNESS It's not always easy to love. Many years ago while Dr. Albert Beaven was in college, one of his friends did something that hurt him deeply. Albert was so angry with…
