PROFOUND WARNING Father overheard shouting to his son: "If you fall off that rock and break your leg, don't come running to me!"
Sermon Illustrations
MONEY Among the things that money can't buy is what it used to. Funny, Funny World
PROGRESS A three watt bulb has been burning in a northern California fire station continually for 85 years. General Electric would like to examine it -- to make sure they never make that mistake again.…
SELF-IMPROVEMENT It is easier to enrich ourselves with a thousand virtues, than to correct ourselves of a single fault. Jean De La Bruyere.
PEN VS SWORD More proof that the pen is mightier than the sword. Very few banks will take checks signed with a sword. Funny, Funny World
MOUTH Maybe the eyes are the windows of the soul -- but that still doesn't make the mouth the door to the brain. Funny, Funny World.
THE CYNIC'A FAINT PRAISE OF HOPE Hope, deceitful as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road. La Rochefoucauld.
THE PEACE MAKER Jesus Christ was God's unilateral disarmament. Dorothee Soelle
A TIP ON STYLE No one is exempt from talking nonsense; the misfortune is to do it solemnly. Montaigne.
THE IMPORTANT ROLE OF A WIFE Every man needs a wife, because many things go wrong that he can't blame on the government. Bits & Pieces.
KITCHEN PARABLE Take heed of the tea kettle -- though up to it's neck in hot water -- yet it singeth! Walter Benjamin, Seattle, Washington, c. 1938.
CONSCIENCE is that little voice that warns us somebody may be watching. Chestnuts Freshly Roasted.
SKYDIVING AND THE SEMICONDUCTOR BUSINESS In both you start out by committing suicide and then try to save yourself. Jon Cornell, head of the semiconductor sector of Harris Corporation, as quoted in Fortune Magazine.
MONEY A lot of people are making money the old fashioned way. They borrow it and forget from whom. Funny, Funny World.
MORE MONEY A miser isn't any fun to live with -- but he makes a wonderful ancestor. On the Upbeat.
REALLY BAD I wouldn't take her to a dog show even if I felt she could win. Song Title
CULTURAL EXCHANGE When we were borrowing customs from other cultures, who passed up the siesta? Bits & Pieces
WORN OUT WATER The guide at the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington State was asked by the tourist: "What is the water any good for once they take the electricity out of it?"
RIGHT TRACK Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
PERSPECTIVE It is more important to know where you are going than to see how fast you can get there. Martin Vanbee
