REVENGE If thine enemy wrong thee, buy each of his children a drum. Old Chinese Proverb, quoted in Christian Communication Laboratory
Sermon Illustrations
MORE ON MATURITY C. S. Lewis speaks of the freedom of reaching maturity. "When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed it I had been found doing so.…
STRENGTH is the ability to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands -- and then eat just one of the pieces. Bits and Pieces
DIFFICULTY "Gentlemen, when you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery." Lord Kelvin
PERSEVERANCE I hold a doctrine to which I owe much, indeed, but all the little I ever had, namely, that with ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. T. F. Buxton, quoted by…
PERSISTENCE Just remember, if Thomas Edison hadn't persisted, today we'd be watching TV by candlelight.
WAR AND PEACE Washington is full of peace monuments. We build one after every war. Funny, Funny World
OPTIMIST The optimist is the kind of person who believes a housefly is looking for a way out. George Jean Nathan
WILD GOOSE CHASE Don't refuse to go on an occasional wild-goose chase; that is what wild geese are made for. Henry S. Haskins
SPIRITUALITY We never become truly spiritual by sitting down and wishing to become so. You must undertake something so great that you cannot accomplish it unaided. Phillips Brooks
BAD NEWS, GOOD NEWS "First the bad news, sir. Your luggage is in Rio de Janero. The good news is that it's carnival time there."
PERSPECTIVE You see me as an atheist. God sees me as the loyal opposition. Woody Allen
STAR OF THE SHOW One of Teddy Roosevelt's children said of him: "Father always wanted to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral."
CRANKY All discourses but my own afflict me; they seem harsh, impertinent, and irksome. Ben Jonson
ABSENCE Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, just as the wind blows out a candle and fans a fire. La Rouchefoucauld
OVER-CONFIDENCE I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things I am most certain of the first time. Josh Billings
OPPORTUNITY We are faced with a series of great opportunities -- brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. John Gardner, On the Upbeat
THE MAJORITY Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on the same side. Claude McDonald in The Christian Word
MONEY Money may not buy happiness, but it helps you look for it in more interesting places.
CRANKY DISPOSITION The way some people behave, you'd think being pleasant was hazardous to their health.
