FAITH Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence. Faith is daring to do something regardless of the consequences. The Sowers Bag
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VISION It is better to look forward and make new mistakes than to look back and do nothing.
TERSE CONVERSATION Question: "Do you know the difference between ignorance and apathy?" Answer: "No, I don't know and I don't care!"
SUMMER It is a sailor in a rowboat and ice-cream on your dress when you're four years old. Summer is a man with his coat off, wet sand between your toes, the smell of a…
WORD OF WISDOM One thing it takes a lifetime to learn -- and some people never do -- is that you can't antagonize people and expect to influence them at the same time. This is…
THE REAL CHOICES You don't get to choose how you're going to die. Or when. You only decide how you're going to live. Now! Joan Baez, Daybreak
THE REALLY TOUGH PART ABOUT GIVING The hardest thing to give is in! Thelma, in comic strip Dooley
BUMPER STICKER Cancer cures smoking
MONEY can't buy love, but it does put you in a great position for negotiating. Funny, Funny World
GROWING OBJECTS If a growing object is both fresh and spoiled at the same time, the chances are it's a child.
SAVING MONEY attend a generic church. The tithe is only 9%. Leadership
GETTING ORGANIZED I write down everything I want to remember. That way, instead of spending a lot of time trying to remember what it is I wrote down, I spend the time looking for the…
CONFIDENCE is entering a sales contest and wondering who's going to come in second. Paul Ziegler in Bits and Pieces
TOUGH TIMES TV Preacher Robert Schuller coined a terse one recently: "Tough times never last, tough people do!"
ELECTRONIC PROGRESS A computer expert reveals that it would take a hundred clerks working for a hundred years to make a mistake as monumental as a single computer can make in 1/1000 of a second.
GAMBLING Some people are willing to gamble on just about anything. Some of them, for instance, are saving money on the risky premise that it may be worth something some day. Funny, Funny World
PERSPECTIVE The difference between ourselves and others is that we don't tell half of what we know, while they don't know half of what they tell. Bits and Pieces
CHANGING VALUES, UNCHANGING VALUES Conversation overheard between two young women: "I hear you broke your engagement to Joe. What happened?" "Oh, it's just that my feelings toward him aren't the same." "Are you returning his…
PEACE IN THE MIDST OF THE STORM The fellow who can smile when things go wrong is probably just going off shift.
APPEASEMENT An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile hoping it will eat him last. Winston Churchill
