THE WAY WE LOOK Eight percent of the world's people are considered "extremely good-looking." Also, eight percent are thought to be "ugly." This, according to studies of how we appear to others. Besides having percentages…
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SALVATION THROUGH PAIN In the city of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, the broken end of a high voltage wire was lying upon the pavement, along which the engineer, Mr. Hildebrand, was walking, unmindful of the fact. Mr.…
DIPLOMACY & TACT Diplomacy gets you out of what tact would have kept you out of. By Brian Bowling
KID'S-EYE VIEW OF GOD Children's Letters To God: "Dear God: In Sunday School they told us what you do. Who does it for you when you are on vacation?" "Dear God: Please put another holiday…
AFFLICTION & MATURITY "Affliction is a treasure and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made (fit) for God by that…
STRENGTH FROM BROKENNESS The world breaks everyone, and afterward many are (made) strong at the broken places. By Ernest Hemingway
ADVICE WITHOUT RISK Be wary of the man who urges an action in which he himself incurs no risk. By Joaquin Setanti
TASTELESS TELEVISION We're doing our share for tastelessness. By United States House Representative Newt Gingrich, on his family's participation as a Nielsen household
STATISTICS LOSE COMPASSION Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped off. By Paul Brodeur, Outrageous Misconduct
LONELINESS & CONCERN Loneliness and the feeling of being uncared for and unwanted are the greatest poverty. By Mother Teresa
PREPARATION OR WORRY Connie Mack was one of the greatest managers in the history of baseball. One of the secrets of his success was that he knew how to lead and inspire men. Mack had…
BOOKS ARE MORE Books are not lumps of lifeless paper but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a button on your…
WHAT LIES WITHIN US What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
BIRD CALLS ATTRACT CATS Hunters, the way to tell if your new bird calls really work is to try them and see if any hungry cats come running.
IT'S NOT THE ALCOHOL In his book, Addictive Thinking, Dr. Abraham Twerski tells the story of an alcoholic who refused to admit that he was the cause of his drinking problems. First, since he drank…
PURE FOOD FOR THOUGHT The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body. Patrick J. Buchanan, Right from the Beginning
HE LEAKS In the mountains of Tennessee they have a type of religion in which people get saved in the spring, grow cold in the summer, backslide in the autumn, and fall away completely in…
PASTORS AND LAWYERS IN HEAVEN A couple in South California were planning to get married, but before they were able to get married, they were swallowed up by an earthquake. The next thing they knew,…
ACTS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE When people witness suffering, their first reaction, if they are the least bit sensitive, is to try to relieve it as soon as possible. This reaction is understandable, and we must…
PREACHING THAT WILL DO A student at a Bible school was asked to preach at chapel services. He was very nervous. When he finished, he asked one of his professors for his comments on the…
