GOD LEAVES MESSAGES The Actual Account: Since I am the pastor of three Lutheran churches, I have to make the use of an answering machine both at my home office and at a second office.…
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THE HOME MAKES THE DIFFERENCE Dr. Stanley Coppersmith, associate professor of psychology at University of California studied 1,738 middle class boys and their families, beginning in the pre-adolescent period and following them through to young…
PREPARE FOR HUMILIATION If pride goes before the fall then presumption runs before humiliation.
BUILDING THE TOWER It is true, according to scripture, that a person is to count the cost in order to build a tower. It is also true that if you do not pay the cost,…
MORE LOVE THAN HATE David Holstrom, a tough-minded reporter, tells of watching a Boston TV program about a woman in her 40's who was describing an extremely brutal childhood in which her father and mother…
GOD'S RULE KNOWN For a man to know the privileges of the reign of God in his life, he must put God's kingdom unquestionably and unconditionally first, before money, and possessions, before rights and privileges,…
CONFESSION BRIDGE To confess your sins to God is not to tell Him anything He doesn't already know. Until you confess them, however, they are the abyss between you. When you confess them, they become…
PARENTS AS BENEVOLENT DICTATORS "I believe in being a benevolent dictator," said Dr. Ruth A. Peters, a Florida adolescent psychiatrist, contributing editor to "Child Magazine" and author of the book Who's in Charge? "There are…
SELF- RIGHTEOUS NEIGHBORS Stubbornness we deprecate, firmness we condone. The former is our neighbor's trait, the latter is our own. Anonymous
TWO TYPES OF STRENGTH There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. -- Booker T. Washington
FEW WORDS The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do. -- Thomas Jefferson
FAITH IS DEAD, DUMB & BLIND Faith is dead to doubt, dumb to discouragement, and blind to impossibilities.
IDEAS & WORK The problem with ideas is that they do not work until we do.
WATCH YOURSELF Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny. Source unknown
CAREER-MINDED MANAGER "A good manager is a man who isn't worried about his own career but rather the careers of those who work for him." By H.S.M. Burns, President, Shell Oil Company, from Men at…
POLITICAL POSITIONS A politician is an animal that can sit on a fence and keep both ears to the ground. -- H. L. Mencken
POLITICIAN OR STATESMAN When you're abroad you're a statesman; when you're at home, you're just a politician. -- Harold Macmillan
POLITICS MINUS POLITICS An independent is a guy who wants to take the politics out of politics. -- Adlai Stevenson
GETTING ALL THE VOTES Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other. -- Oscar Ameringer
POLITICAL PUBLICITY Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hard-working, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them. -- Lily Tomlin
