HOW HIGH IS YOUR AIM? No man has a right to be called "great" if his aims are small. And the question is, not as modern idolatry of intellect, or, still worse, modern idolatry of…
Sermon Illustrations
REASONS FOR MARRIAGE HUSBAND TO WIFE: How can someone so beautiful, be so stupid? WIFE TO HUSBAND: God made me beautiful so you would marry me; He made me stupid so I would marry you!…
The mouth is the grocer's friend, the dentist's fortune, the orator's pride, and the fool's trap. From Sunshine Magazine, August 1973
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. From The Rambler, by Samuel Johnson
My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go. From Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
I cannot believe that God plays dice with the Cosmos. By Albert Einstein
Fields are won by those who believe in the winning. From Americanism in Literature, by T.W. Higginson
Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you. From The Philistine, by Elbert Hubbard
You can't build a reputation on what you are going to do. By Henry Ford
PREEMINENCE When there are so many gods, all competing with one another and claiming first priority, and there is no supreme god, no supreme good or value in terms of which everything else needs to…
HANDLING AN EXPLOSIVE SITUATION Each salesperson sells a different product and is consequently subject to different circumstances and practices. Here's how one salesperson handled his special product. As an explosives salesperson, Dan had to be…
BAPTISMAL RECONSIDERATION Wendell McClinton, Executive Director of the Gideons tells of his conversion and subsequent baptism during a speech given at the State Gideons Convention in Jackson, Mississippi on March 16, 1990. He tells of…
ONLY TAKE WHAT YOU CAN EAT A man went into a pizza parlor and ordered a medium sized pizza. When it was ready, the cook asked him if he wanted it cut into four pieces…
THE MYSTERIOUS WAYS OF GOD Oppressed by the noonday heat, a tired farmer sat under a walnut tree to rest. Relaxing, he looked at his pumpkin vines and said to himself, "How strange it is…
MUTUAL COMFORT United Airlines Flight 232, attempting an emergency landing, cartwheeled and crashed just short of an airport landing strip in Sioux City, Iowa, on July 19, 1989. One hundred and twelve people were killed,…
FIGHTING FOR LIFE Life is a hard fight, a struggle, a wrestling with the principle of evil, hand to hand, foot to foot. Every inch of the way is disputed. The night is given us…
KIDS KILL FOR CLOTHES Baltimore-After months of hard work and scrimping, the mother of 15-year-old Michael Thomas bought him a $100.00 pair of Air Jordan basketball shoes. He wore them proudly to school the next…
"Pettiness," writes George Will, "is the tendency of people without large purposes." From Chuck Swindoll's Newsletter
MAKING SOMETHING OUT OF NOTHING It seems a rabbi and a cantor were in the synagogue one evening rehearsing a service. To dramatically make his point the rabbi fell to his knees, beat his breast…
SOMETHING MORE At age 54, the Silicon Valley computer software engineer says that he has finally found what he was searching for during the '60s. "I was always on a quest. I tried everything. I…
