TOO MANY LOVE SONGS Brutus Thornapple, the comic strip's Born Loser, and his wife Gladys are sitting in front of the fireplace. He says, "Nothing like a fire to warm the heart...eh, my sweet?" Gladys…
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PROTECTION FROM LOVE To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you…
ROMANCE NEEDS FRIENDSHIP From Pick a Husband Who'll Be A Friend: I see young people today who are madly in love with each other, drunk with visions of a fairy-tale romance and happily ever afters.…
FAITHFUL APES Desmond Morris has fun with a consistent evolutionary view of the pair-bond development of males and females and our inconsistent attempts to maintain our "evolutionary progress" -- Male and female hunting apes had…
LOVE MAKES THE TIME GO Can you cook? can you sew? -- Well I don't want to know, It's not what it takes on the outside -- to make the time go. From a song…
CIRCULAR LOVE Love is the one commodity the more of which you give away the more you have. From Sword of the Lord, March 4, 1988, page 12
TOO MUCH LOVE There was a man who loved the color yellow so much that he painted every room in his house yellow, purchased yellow furniture, yellow pillows, yellow sheets, yellow clothes, yellow pajamas, yellow…
TO RUSSIA FOR LOVE Some people will go the distance for love. That's the bet of the American-Russian Love Connection, a service of a new on-line computer venture called PowerVision. PowerVision uses the format of…
LOVE NOTHING BUT GOD I am looking for men who love nothing but God and hate nothing but sin. By John Wesley
TIME LOST Joe Arena, age 43, a municipal bond trader at Roosevelt & Cross Inc. in New York, is missing something: seven hours a week. That's the additional time he'd like to have for leisure…
LOVE THEM ALL Disturbers are to be rebuked, the low-spirited to be encouraged, the infirm to be supported, objectors confuted, the treacherous guarded against, the unskilled taught, the lazy aroused, the contentious restrained, the haughty…
GOD'S GREATEST WORK But God's work is more than nature. He barely began there. People generally concede that you can know something about God through the universe he has made: "The heavens are telling the…
CROATIAN LOVE In reference to the Serbian residents of his own town, Dusko Nikolic, a Croatian policeman known as "Nasty Nick," said, "Jesus told us to love our neighbors. Well, I do love them. I…
FOR THE LOVE OF THE KING In their book, Tales of the Kingdom, David and Karen Mains tell the wonderful story of "The Baker Who Loved Bread." The story is about Chief Baker in Deepest…
SAY YOU LOVE ME In "Fiddler On The Roof," there is a poignant scene in which Tevye keeps asking his wife, "Do you love me?" She keeps brushing the question aside, talking of how she…
SHARING TO KEEP For we must share if we would keep That blessing from above; Ceasing to give, we cease to have, Such is the law of love. From Sword of the Lord, February 5,…
TO GIVE OR NOT TO GIVE Children were reciting Bible verses as the offering was being taken. One child said, 'God loves a cheerful giver." Another announced, "He who gives to the poor lends to…
BRILLIANT OBSERVATIONS ON LOVE Love... is one of the leading causes of life. Think big... and remember that nothing is bigger than love. If you can't say exactly how much you love me, try to…
PASTORAL KISSING An Episcopalian priest was wearing his clerical collar while visiting his wife who was in the hospital for minor surgery. He stopped in to see her and chatted with her for quite some…
EYESIGHT DOES NOT EQUAL VISION When J. C. Penny was ninety-five years old, he affirmed, "My eyesight may be getting weaker, but my vision is increasing." Taken from He Still Moves Stones, by Max Lucado,…
