PSST--WANNA MAKE A FORTUNE? Make a bathroom scale that lies, convincingly. Humorist Fran Lebowitz, as quoted in Forbes
Sermon Illustrations
OPPORTUNITY / TEMPTATION Why is it that opportunity knocks only once yet temptation bangs on the door constantly?
SUDDEN SKILLS Nothing improves a person's driving skills like the sudden discovery that his license has expired.
THE ACID TEST Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. Will Rogers
CONFIDENCE is entering a sales contest and wondering who's going to come in second. Paul Ziegler
THERE'S A NEW DIET that is all the rage. You can eat all you want of everything you don't like. Bits & Pieces
BIG ISN'T EVERYTHING It doesn't depend on size, or a cow would catch a rabbit. Pennysylvania German Proverb, "Thoughts On the Business of Life," Forbes
LOVE OBSERVED The world will not care what we know until they know we care. Gene Barron
THE RATIONALE OF GOD'S LOVE He loved us not because we were lovable, but because He is love. C. S. Lewis, "Membership"
OUT OF IT You know you're out of it when your teen-ager knocks on your bedroom door first thing in the morning and says, "Today is 'Nerd Day' at school, Pop. Can I borrow some…
ENGAGEMENT RING is a tourniquet applied to the third finger of a woman's left hand to stop circulation.
DEVOURERS They've now succeeded in crossing a praying mantis with a termite, thereby producing a bug that says grace before eating your home. (see Mark 12:38-40 about the praying devourers of widow's houses) Unconfirmed Univ.…
CONCEIT -- DIRECT CORRELATION The bigger a man's head gets, the easier it is to fill his shoes. Have A Good Day
FANATIC is someone who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Winston Churchill
CHARACTER The severest test of character is not so much the ability to keep a secret as it is, when the secret is finally out, to refrain from disclosing that you knew it all along.…
HAPPINESS Some pursue happiness . . . others create it. Soundings Vol. A, No. 1
A PRAYER in its simplest definition, is merely a wish turned heavenward. Phillips Brooks
POTENCY More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. Alfred Lord Tennyson, Morte d'Arthur
SINCERE PRAYER "O God, if in the day of battle I forget Thee, do not Thou forget me." William King
WE NEED TO FORGIVE He who cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself. George Herbert
