INCOMPLETE FORGIVENESS A man was on his deathbed. He called for an old enemy to come to see him; and when the gentleman arrived, the dying man said, "I want to forgive you for the…
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TRUMAN TOLD THE TRUTH I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell. By President "Give-em-hell" Harry Truman
BALANCED FAITH There is a place for the rational element of religion. Without it religion would be sheer sentimentally and even superstitious. But it is not a question of either/or, but both/and. Oxygen won't quench…
WISDOM FROM FAILURE We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, but finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never…
PERSPECTIVES ON SPOUSES Successful couples regard their spouses as friends, the kind of person they would want to have as a friend even if they weren't married to them," says Robert Lauer, co-author with his…
RELIGION VERSUS THE GOSPEL Religion is man-made;/the Gospel is God given./Religion is what man does for God;/the Gospel is what God does for man./Religion is good views;/the Gospel is Good News./Religion is an outer reformation;/the…
CONFUSED OR LOST Daniel Boone explored the great wilderness of Tennessee and Kentucky. It was Boone who marked the wilderness road that brought settlers into the new land. He often wandered over vast areas of…
GEOMETRY PARENTS "No wonder Monette gets straight A's in French," lamented one teen to another. "Her parents were born in Paris and speak French at home.""In that case, I ought to get an A in…
WHO WAS REALLY THE DUMB ONE? I want to share with you the story of a gentleman by the name of Victor Seribriakoff:When he was but 15, his teacher told him he was dumb and…
CONSEQUENCES HIDDEN Wine was free to the people in ancient Rome. But how much and to whom isn't altogether clear. What's known is that both Claudius and Nero taxed the populace to make wine an…
ISSUES WITH A VENGEANCE We adults forget what we do to children's imaginations when we go through one of our national seizures on an issue. A dozen years ago, Hollywood fell in love with the…
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CHURCH IS THE HEART OF GOD A Sunday School teacher once asked her students to talk about how they felt about their church. The students responded in the usual ways: some said something silly to…
NO IMPORT It's almost impossible to overestimate the unimportance of most things. -- John Logue, quoted by Lee Walburn in Atlanta
IMPACTING THE SENSES An enlightening pastime is to make a list of favorite things that impact the senses. Not only does it provide a challenging exercise for the mind and memory, but it sharpens our…
MEMORY AND TRUTH Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin. From Animal Dreams, by Barbara Kingsolver
BOTH SIDES OF VALUES Stigmas are the corollaries of values. If work, independence, responsibility, respectability are valued, then their converse must be devalued, seen as disreputable. From The De-moralization of Society, by Gertrude Himmelfarb
EDUCATED FLAMES Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -- William Butler Yeats
LET OTHERS DISCOVER It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help. Judith S. Martin
TEMPORARY DEFEATS Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it permanent. - - Marilyn vos Savant
MAKING THE SIMPLE COMPLEX While intelligent people can often simplify the complex, a fool is more likely to complicate the simple. Gerald W. Grumet, M.D., in Readings
