FACIAL WEAPON A son and daughter were fishing with their mother in the Alaskan wilderness when a baby moose approached them. The children met the baby moose in a small meadow. Moments later the mother…
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THE ONLY REGRET My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else. Woody Allen
PAUL HARVEY ON VALUES Daniel Koehler sent in a powerful and eloquent article by Paul Harvey, syndicated columnist, dated November 16, 1993. He took this from the Fox Valley Daily Herald, but you can get…
DIMINISHED DYNAMITE In a wonderful book, The Table of Inwardness, Calvin Miller wrote of an antique wooden dynamite box in his home. The box was made in the nineteenth century, Miller said, carefully constructed to…
OTHERS THINK LITTLE As a French philosopher once said, "People who worry about what others think of them would be surprised at how little they did." From The Charm School, Nelson Demille, pg. 67
REASON FOR HAPPINESS Not long ago, I was riding double on a motorcycle with a friend of mine in Newport Beach, Calif. We were talking, laughing and having a good time. I enjoy life. In…
BRAINS AND HAPPINESS I have observed that happiness and brains seldom go together. The pinheaded woman who regards her thin-witted husband as the greatest man in the world is happy, and much good may it…
GILBRETH ON HUMOR Two of Frank Gilbreth's children wrote about their father in the book Cheaper by the Dozen. They portrayed a remarkable father of twelve children who was an efficiency engineer who applied these…
CHAFER ON APOLOGETICS When the evidence that there is a God is being pursued along the highway of reason, the laws of logic and of deduction are as essential as the truth which is involved.…
CICERO ON APOLOGETICS Again, a quotation from Cicero to the same end but discloses the fact that the naturalistic theistic arguments were in use a century and more before Christ: "Can anything be done by…
WORLD MOVERS NEEDED Socrates is quoted as having said: "Let him that would move the world first move himself." We have always needed, and will always need world movers. Therefore, I challenge some Christians to…
TO SEE IS TO WANT "Need and desire have no connection," I said. "Many people desire things they do not need. Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see…
UNIVERSE ON AN ENVELOPE Mrs. Albert Einstein was being taken on a tour of the great Palomar observatory. Pointing to the massive telescope, the director asserted, "With this, we will unlock the secrets of the…
27 PRAYERS A missionary and his helpers were forced to camp on a hill. They carried money and were fearful of an attack. After prayer, they went to sleep. Months later, a brigand chief was…
FISHERMAN'S PRIORITIES If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles.
FRIENDS COMFORTABLE IN SILENCE True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable. As quoted by Ben Holden
THE WORTH OF THE LISTENER A person who can speak many languages is not necessarily more valuable than a person who can listen well in one. As quoted by Ben Holden
FAULTS NUMBERED Everyone has faults, and those that don't believe it have one more. As quoted by Ben Holden
RUN ON THE RIGHT ROAD There's no use in running if you're not on the right road. As quoted by Ben Holden
DOWNGRADED GRADING If your teenage child is evaluated as having great coordination, good reflexes and excellent visual perception, it means he's flunking everything except video games. As quoted by Ben Holden
