FROM A FORMER PASTOR "I was much admired in my pulpit days. Raise the doubts, then do the reassurances. People have no idea what they're hearing, they just want a certain kind of verbal music.…
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WHO SAYS YOU`RE A CHRISTIAN? A man was confronted by one of those aggressive Christians who buttonholed him and asked: "Are you a Christian?" The man stopped and thought for a moment. He said, "I…
NO PARKING When Sennacherib was King of Assyria (704-681 B.C.) he had "No Parking" signs posted along the processional way to Ninevah, with the inscription: "Royal Road, let no man lessen it." Charioteers who disobeyed…
IT IS FINISHED Murdo Ewen MacDonald, a prisoner of war in Germany and chaplain to American soldiers, told how he learned of the Normandy invasion. Early on D- Day, he was awakened and told that…
ACQUAINTANCE n. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to. Ambrose Bierce
OF PARROTS AND EAGLES We are running shy of eagles and we're running over with parrots. Content to sit safely on our evangelical perches and repeat in rapid-fire falsetto our religious words, we are fast…
WHEN IT HAPPENS TWICE The employee found ten dollars too much in his pay check, but remained quiet about the error. The following week, correcting the overpayment, the paymaster deducted ten dollars, and the employee…
AROUND THE CONFERENCES Members of the Selma (Iowa) UMC uncovered $24,548 in a newly acquired lot adjacent to the church. Volunteers were clearing the bulldozed lot, which the church had obtained for payment of back…
GOVERNMENT If you think you're getting too much government, just be thankful you're not getting as much as you're paying for. Modern Maturity
POLITICS is the art of letting people have your way. Campbell's Notebook, January, 1988.
HYPOCRITE A hypocrite is a man who writes a book praising atheism and then prays that it will sell. Leighton Ford
THE ATHEIST -- DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE You see me as an atheist. God sees me as the loyal opposition. Woody Allen
FAITH is believin' things that nobody in his right mind would believe. Archie Bunker
MORE ON CONSCIENCE The inner voice which warns us that someone may be looking. H. L. Mencken
CYNIC A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. H. L. Mencken
CYNIC A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future. Sidney Harris
UNCOMMON FRIENDS I have just finished reading a fascinating book by James Newton, entitled Uncommon Friends. Newton had the opportunity to be a friend of Thomas Alva Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alex Carrel and…
HARVEY FIRESTONE Mr. Firestone's pride in his products was inherited by his sons. Many years later, in 1947, I attended the wedding in Akron of Harvey Jr.'s daughter, Martha, to Edsel Ford's son, William Clay.…
HENRY FORD My heart went out to him now as I walked beside this energetic old man. What an enormous responsibility rested on those slight shoulders. His empire was made up of sixty American, nine…
TAKING ADVANTAGE OF A BAD SITUATION Hauling clay for a landfill, a truck driver backed his dump truck too far over the grade. The weight of the load lifted the front end of the truck…
