LIFE'S BARGAINS I bargained with life for a penny, But life would pay no more. However I begged at evening, When I counted my scanty store. For life is a just employer and gives you…
Sermon Illustrations
WHO HAS WHAT Until you make peace with who you are, you'll never be content with what you have. Doris Mortman, Circles (Bantam)
THIRTY PERCENT If you miss seven balls out of ten, you're batting three hundred and that's good enough for the Hall of Fame. You can't score if you keep the bat on your shoulder. Walter…
OUTSTANDING STANDS It's important that people know what you stand for. It's equally important that they know what you won't stand for. Mary Waldrop, Leadership Quotes
THROWING STONES A boy's boat went out of reach on the pond one day, and started floating away. A man on the side started throwing rocks at the boat and the boy became horrified at…
ONE'S WORLD VIEW The world would be a better place, If everyone would change their focus, Looking in the mirror one sees his own face, looking out the window he sees the rest of the…
THINK ABOUT ME In the cartoon strip, "Calvin and Hobbes", Calvin says to his stuffed tiger (whom he imagines to be real and his best friend), "People are so self-centered." Then he adds philosophically, "The…
FUNCTION FOLLOWS FORM Once upon a time, not so long ago and far away, there was a little car who was having all kinds of troubles. Whenever it drove along the city streets, it always…
IMPOSSIBILITY TAKES LONGER "If it's difficult we do it immediately. If it's impossible it takes a little longer. Miracles by appointment only."
THAT'S BUSINESS A business is too big when it takes a week for gossip to go from one end of the office to the other.
PLUMBERS AND DOCTORS The brain surgeon returned from a European vacation to discover that his basement was filled with water - and rising. He called a plumber who arrived in a new Mercedes and wearing…
KENNEDY'S COMMITTEES A committee is twelve men doing the work of one. By John F. Kennedy
PRIOR EARNINGS It is especially hard to work for money you've already spent for something you didn't need.
LAW OF DESTINY Glory may be fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
POOR PLANNING In 1957 my two young sons and I traveled by bus from Salt Lake City, Utah to Phoenix. Sitting in front of us were two elderly women who talked incessantly. During the trip,…
NEIGHBORS AND ENEMIES ALL THE SAME G. K. Chesterton: "The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the same people." From Leadership, Summer 1990,…
A FAMOUS FRIEND Recently my friends, Bobby and Bonnie Garner, called me from North Carolina. Bobby is a salesman and his company had given them a free cruise from Southern California down the coast to…
BUILDING BRIDGES OF TRUST Americans are great at building high- rise condos, super highways, and spaceships. What we're not doing so well is creating credibility among ourselves. Untruth seems to be not only acceptable but…
THE EXPERIENCE OF LOVE Is love an art? Then it requires knowledge and effort. Or is love a pleasant sensation, which to experience is a matter of chance, something one "falls into" if one is…
WALK OR WORK In our service to the Lord, we can easily confuse our WORK for God with our WALK with God. No necessary correlation exists between our WORK for God and our WALK with…
