MOMENT OF PATIENCE One moment of patience may ward off disaster, one moment of impatience may ruin a whole life.
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GOD GOT THE LETTER I ran across a beautiful story, a true story, entitled "A Letter For Luke." It's about an eleven year old young man named Landon who stood in front of his mom…
THE PROBLEM WITH SELF How did the Dark Power go wrong? Well, the moment you have a self at all, there is a possibility of putting yourself first -- wanting to be the center --…
THE KILLER COMPUTER Hartford residents would have been included in grand jury pools over the past three years if not for one small problem: The computer thought everyone in town was dead. Court workers seeking…
THE HUSK OR THE KEARNEL Money may be the husk of many things, but not the kernel. It brings you good food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; acquaintances, but not friends; servants, but…
NO PEACEFUL PLURALITIES Ralph David Abernathy told how even the squatter camp called Resurrection City, erected on the Washington D.C. mall during the Poor People's March of 1968, failed to achieve a peaceful plurality. African-…
ETERNITY The stars shine over the mountains, the stars shine over the sea, The stars look up to the mighty God, the stars look down on me; The stars shall last for a million years,…
FIGHT OR LIVE IN PEACE WITH SAVAGES "It is better to fight savages than live with them in peace. Signing would be tantamount to treason." Quoted from Radoslav Brdjanin, a member of the Bosnian Serb…
GARDEN OF CHARACTER When planting a garden, consider the following: 1. Plant 5 rows of peas: Promptness, Perseverance, Peace, Patience, Piety. 2. Plant 5 rows of squash: Squash gossip, Squash indifference, Squash criticism, Squash childishness,…
MORE TO LIFE THAN WORK "I have not found any kind of satisfaction from Shintoism or mainstream Buddhism," said 29-year-old artist and Agon-Shu follower Mieko Numata. "The only message you hear in Japan these days…
THE PEACE- FILLED LIFE When H. B. Macartney, an Australian pastor, visited Hudson Taylor in China, he was amazed at the missionary's serenity in spite of his many burdens and his busy schedule. Macartney finally…
HOW TO KEEP THE PEACE As you go through life you are going to have many opportunities to keep your mouth shut. Take advantage of all of them. Quoted by James Dent in Charleston, West…
GANDHI ON THE BIBLE "You Christians have in your keeping a document with enough dynamite in it to blow the whole of civilization to bits; to turn society upside down; to bring peace to this…
SILENCE NOT CONVERSION You have not converted a man because you have silenced him. John Morley
NEVER COMPROMISE Never "for the sake of peace and quiet" deny your own experience or convictions. Dag Hammarskj�ld, Markings
TOLERANCE FOR TOLERANCE We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerantly that I would be less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs.…
HAPPY IN TODAY Each morning when I open my eyes I say to myself: "I, not events, have the power to make me happy or unhappy today. I can choose which it shall be. Yesterday…
SEAMANDS ON GUILT AND PEACE David Seamands comments on continuous feelings of guilt, condemnation, and the judgment and disapproval of God. Again and again Christians tell me: "I feel guilty almost all the time." I…
REASON FOR COURAGE Natty Bumpo tells why he would not leave the others in danger and save himself, "Why," repeated the scout "...because it is better for a man to die at peace with himself…
DEALING WITH BURDENS "Peace I leave with you; My peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you." Martin Luther wrote about that passage. The world assumes that peace comes…
