SUCCESS VERSUS FAILURE The difference between success and failure is that successful people make themselves do what they hate to do and failures wait for their managers to make them do it, or to do…
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THE ULTIMATE ANSWER TO LOSTNESS An elderly gentleman was out walking with his young grandson. "How far are we from home?" he asked the grandson. The boy answered, "Grandpa, I don't know." The grandfather asked,…
HIS MYSTERIOUS WAYS I 'm 16 years old, and ever since I was a young girl my parents told me that God is always watching over us. I believed this, but I couldn't really say…
HABITS All habits gather by unseen degrees -- As brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas. John Dryden
OUR PATHS MAY CROSS AGAIN -- FOR SWEET REVENGE Emmett Watson, columnist for the Seattle Times tells the following story about Tommy Lasorda, the colorful manager of the Los Angels Dodgers. He says: I can't…
THE WILL TO WIN RUN AMOK Kathy Ormsby was a success story. She was a dean's list student at North Carolina State, majoring in pre-med. She was an All-America distance runner. At the Penn Relays…
I WAS THERE I have a dear friend, Bill Mann, who has one of the great singing voices in the Christian Church in this nation. I remember some years ago he told me about the…
STRATEGY FOR INTERPERSONAL CONVINCING Never try to prove to the other person that you are right. It is human nature to object to anyone who insists he is right. Rather, always present your arguments in…
COMMUNICATION A little girl was talking to her grandmother. She asked, "Grandma, how old are you?" The grandmother replied, "Now dear, you shouldn't ask people that question. Most grownups don't like to tell their age."…
THE LIMITS OF OUR OWN EXPERIENCE Martin Marty refers to Joseph Sittler as one of his mentors. He quotes from Sittler's book, Gravity and Grace in a recent issue of Context: We ought not permit…
GET THE FULL STORY FIRST A man went to visit a psychiatrist. He said, "I've got two problems." The psychiatrist said, "Okay, tell me all about it." The man began, "Well, I think I am…
MAKING THE MOST OF LIFE If I can throw a single ray of light across the darkened pathway of another; if I can aid some soul to clearer sight of life and duty, and thus…
NO MAN IS AN ISLAND -- INTERDEPENDENCE Peter Goulding, in his book, The Young Minister, weaves into the pages of his plot a hermit who, on the outside, seems to have rejected society. As the…
FORGIVENESS A pastor's son and his mom had been to a shopping mall and the boy had acted badly, wanting this and that, running off, etc. As they were driving home, he could sense her…
PROFOUND WITNESS I had come to Vienna after a two-week illness in a little Austrian village. I had spent most of my travel money on medicine and doctors and used my last bit to take…
WHAT'S IN A NAME? A Newspaper ad read: "Lost -- One Dog. Brown hair with several bald spots. Right leg broken due to auto accident. Rear left hip hurt. Right eye missing. Left ear bitten…
YOU KNOW YOU'RE GETTING OLDER WHEN Everything hurts, and what doesn't hurt, doesn't work. The gleam in your eyes is from the sun hitting your bifocals. You feel like the night before, and you haven't…
FLYING If God had really intended men to fly, he'd make it easier to get to the airport. George Winters
STRATEGY FOR PEOPLE The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them. Kin Hubbard, as quoted in Forbes
UNDERSTANDING LOUDNESS IN OUR CULTURE The amount of noise which anyone can bear undisturbed stands in inverse proportion to his mental capacity. Arthur Schopenhauer
