STAND UP TO BE COUNTED! Some years ago Premier Kruschev was speaking before the Supreme Soviet and was severely critical of the late Premier Stalin. While he was speaking someone from the audience sent up…
Sermon Illustrations
COURAGE The courage of a 30-year-old construction worker recently saved the life of an Albuquerque youth. The story appeared in all of the cities major newspapers and news programs. The city had received a considerable…
THE DIFFERENCE Sure, it takes a lot of courage To put things in God's hands . . . To give ourselves completely, Our lives, our hopes, our plans; To follow where He leads us And…
COURAGE Courage! What if the snows are deep, And what if the hills are long and steep And the days are short and the nights are long And the good are weak and the bad…
RESURGENCE Out of the earth, the rose, Out of the night, the dawn: Out of my heart, with all its woes, High courage to press on. By Laura Lee Randall, from Better Than Gold (Thomas…
A CHILD'S P.R. PROBLEM A little girl came home from school and said to her mother, "I wish you would let me take my bath in the morning before I go to school instead of…
COLLECT CALLS From an anonymous clipping in my resource file which I hope to use next Mother or Father's Day. "The Illinois Bell Telephone Co. reports that the volume of long-distance calls made on Father's…
EFFECTIVE COMMUNICATION STRATEGY As the mother said goodbye to her son who was returning to school after spring vacation, she reminded him to write often. Another woman standing nearby heard the plea and gave this…
RESPONSIBILITY OF CHILD-REARING In his recent book, Costs of Children, economist Lawrence Olson reports that the average U. S. family should expect to spend $226,000 (in 1982 dollars) to raise a first-born son to age…
BIRTH/DEATH It seems to me that a good analogy for death is birth. The child, before birth, must certainly feel secure and safe. The environment, however limited, is warm and comfortable. The unborn infant knows…
TURNABOUT A cold wind was howling and a chilling rain was beating down when the telephone rang in the home of a doctor. The caller said that his wife needed urgent medical attention. The doctor…
SCRIPTURE Romans 16:17-18 (J. B. Phillips) "by fair and flattering words they deceive the hearts of the simple- minded. I would have you wise as to what is good and guileless as to what is…
CREDIBILITY Clopton's Law: For every credibility gap there is a gullibility fill. Richard Clopton, in The Official Rules by Paul Dickson.
HYPOCRISY is the homage which vice renders to virtue. La Rochefoucauld
TRUTH AND THE BETTER LIFE Honesty of thought and speech and written word is a jewel, and they who curb prejudice and seek honorably to know and speak the truth are the only builders of…
LONG TRADITIONS We always hear about "old- fashioned" honesty -- but dishonesty has quite a long geneology too. E. C. McKenzie, 3400 Clever Quotes For Everyone
MAKING IT PLAUSIBLE Comins's Law: People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. David Comins, from The Official Rules
SINCERITY IS THE KEY Short's Quotations: Learn to be sincere, even if you have to fake it.
PRECIOUS TRUTH Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use. Mark Twain
THE OBVIOUS TRUTH If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one? Abraham Lincoln
