MODERN DANGERS The danger for modern man is that he would reduce the earth to a desert, the person to an automation, brotherly love to a planned collectivization, often introducing death where God wishes life.…
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DANGEROUS BREAD "W. Dow Jones" wrote: Bread is Dangerous Important warning for those who have been drawn unsuspectingly into the use of bread: 1. More than 98 percent of convicted felons are bread users. 2.…
RICHES IN POVERTY The best riches is poverty of desires. From Paedagogus, by Clement of Alexandria
POVERTY CAUSED BY GREED Poverty consists not in the decrease of one's possessions but in the increase of one's greed. -- Plato
WATER, BLOOD & SPIRIT Blood is thicker than water, But spirit is thicker than blood. By Michael Hodgin
CIVILIZED NECESSITIES Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities. -- Mark Twain
TERRIBLE PATIENTS GET WELL In the book, The Gift of Pain, the authors present the three types of patients as described by Dr. Bernie Siegel. There are the 15 to 20 percent with a death…
HELD BY CONVICTION A belief is what you hold; A conviction is what holds you.
REWARD FOR OUR TOILS The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it. -- John Ruskin
JOB WORRIES A psychiatrist never has to worry as long as others do.
DEFINITION OF BUSY How about this definition of busy: B - Being U - Under S - Satan's Y - Yoke So, Are You BUSY? If the devil were to write his beatitudes, they would…
A THOUSAND MARBLES The older I get, the more I enjoy Saturday mornings. Perhaps it's the quiet solitude that comes with being the first to rise, or maybe it's the unbounded joy of not having…
A HAPPY ENDING A husband and wife returned from a night at the play. Their children asked if the play had a happy ending. Their mother told them that it was a wonderful play that…
CLIMBING THE LADDER The most difficult part of getting to the top of the ladder is getting through the crowd at the bottom. -- Arch Ward
MAKING SHORT CIRCUITS LONGER The electrician walked upstairs and reported to the concerned homeowners that they had a short circuit in their breaker box. The homeowners looked at each other and one of them asked,…
GREAT HEADPHONE PRICE A boy was taking his first trip in a plane. The flight attendant was distributing headphones for the in-flight movie. She asked the boy's parents if they wanted headphones for him. This…
NEED FOR MORE WONDER Our need is not for more wonders but for more wonder. From The Go-Between God, by John V. Taylor
NON-REFLECTIVE VIEWS The trouble with holding a view without reflecting on it is that the view generally controls the individual rather than the other way around. From Encounter with God, by Morton T. Kelsey
DYING TO MAKE MEN FREE On the USS Bayfield, an attack transport that served as headquarters for Major General Raymond O. Barton, commander of the 4th Infantry Division, the decks were jammed with troops and…
MIRROR OF LIFE Life is like a mirror; we never get back more than we put in.
