I WOULD TOO A father had a son who was constantly getting into trouble. All efforts to change the situation seemed futile. Finally, one of his friends said, "If that were my son I would…
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HARD BALL Stewart Granger, Cleveland Cavalier guard recalls the rough basketball games they played as youth on Brooklyn playgrounds. The rule was: "No autopsy, no foul."
MIND SET FOR LIFE Live in the active voice, rather than in the passive. Think more about what you make happen than what is happening to you. William De Witt Hyde
LIFE AND RISK Life truly lived is a risk business, and if one puts up too many fences against risk, one ends by shutting out life itself. Kenneth S. Davis
SUCCESS To be successful is to achieve an objective, but to be a success is always to have yet another objective in mind after you've achieved the last one.
INCREDIBLE We learn from experience that not everything which is incredible is untrue. Cardinal de Retz
LEAKY LOVE Love is proud of itself. It leaks out of us even with the tightest security. Merrit Malloy, Things I Meant to Say to You When We Were Old (Doubleday).
THE DIFFERENCE BELIEF MAKES If we do not believe, the waves engulf us, the winds blow, nourishment fails, sickness lays us low or kills us, the divine power is impotent or remote. If, on the…
WHEN THE RULES CHANGE Dear Miss Manners -- When we were having Thanksgiving dinner at the home of friends, an argument broke out between the other couple. Being of an impulsive nature, the wife threw…
TOUCHE ON WRITTEN PRAYERS The occasion was one of those community inter-faith Thanksgiving services where all the local pastors were participating -- including the Episcopal rector and the Baptist preacher. The Baptist preacher wasn't really…
BORE Definition of a bore: Someone who deprives you of your solitude without providing you with company. Campbell's Notebook
VELVET SHOES AND SILK PAJAMAS Harry Emerson Fosdick is credited with the observation that history is filled with the sound of wooden shoes coming up the stairs and velvet slippers coming down. The famous jockey,…
ATHEIST HOLIDAY An atheist complained to a friend because Christians had their special holidays, such as Christmas, Easter and the like; the Jews celebrated their national holidays such as Passover, Yom Kippur. He said, "But…
THE ATTORNEY IN HEAVEN The best of the spate of recent lawyer jokes was the one I heard about the lawyer that died and found himself in heaven. By the time he'd been there a…
OBVIOUS CHARMS "What do you love most about me?" the woman asked her husband. "My natural beauty or my gorgeous body?" He quietly replied, "Your sense of humor." Adapted from Val Chadwick Bagley, Asterik Features,…
DON'T JOIN THAT CHURCH If you should find the perfect church without one fault or smear. For goodness sake, don't join that church; you'd spoil the atmosphere If you should find the perfect church where…
INGRATE One day a man drove into my friend's service station. He said he was penniless, almost out of gas and needed to get across town. My generous friend offered to put a couple of…
DON'T BE A VICTIM While my husband was delivering mail on his route, he noticed how many mailboxes had been knocked down or damaged, apparently as a result of careless driving or vandalism. Then he…
EVOKING CHOICES The Christian leader, refraining not only from the use of force but even from the subtler pressures of fear and coercion, must evoke each member's voluntary participation. Failing that, he must respect, however…
COMMUNICATION After hearing the story about how God took the rib out of Adam' s side, a little boy who had been running and had gotten a side ache told his mother, "I think I'm…
