HAPPINESS DEPENDS Happiness doesn't depend on outward conditions. It depends on inner conditions. It isn't what you have or who you are or where you are or what you are doing that makes you happy…
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GIVE ME GOD God of all goodness, give me yourself, for you are sufficient for me. Julian of Norwich 1392-1416
FULL-TIME PRAYER You say grace before meals. All right. But I say grace before the concert and the opera, and grace before the play and pantomime, and grace before I open a book, and grace…
CAN'T NOT SEE GOD A young man longed to see God. He had heard for many years of a wise old man who lived in the mountains nearby. After searching elsewhere for God in vain,…
PRAISING NOBODY He who praises everybody praises nobody. By Samuel Johnson
ELEPHANT WORSHIP As a circus parade moved noisily through the streets of Milan, Italy, an elephant suddenly swerved out of line and meandered into a church. Prancing up the center aisle and snorting every now…
THOUGHTS & RESULTS A positive thought is the seed of a positive result.
POWER OF PRAISING Explanation of effect of Natty Bumpo's words, "It was not the terms in which this admiration had been expressed, for they were simple enough, that produces so strong an impression; nor yet…
ATHEISTS CAN'T FIND GOD An atheist cannot find God for the same reason that a thief cannot find a policeman. From Sword of the Lord, April 17, 1987, page 8A
TRIALS & LIFE Trials are an inescapable part of life. Don't run from them. You will just run toward other ones. Instead, stop and face them as they come. You will then learn to defeat…
NEED THE WIND TO FLY Ornithologists assure us that the eagle, the condor of the Andes, the albatross of the Pacific and even the swiftly flying little dove, like many other strong winged birds can…
TILL NIGHTFALL Robert Louis Stevenson, who had many dark days said, "every man can get through till nightfall." Tomorrow is another day. We can live one day at a time. Jesus prayed "Give us this…
SOUL ROT Life is a lively process of becoming. If you haven't added to your interest during the past year; if you are thinking the same thoughts, relating the same personal experiences, having the same…
LAST TO SURRENDER Those who have invested the most will be the last to surrender. -- Vince Lombardi
LAZY LAWYERS Take-Your-Daughter-to-Work-Day is designed to expose our daughters to the work-place, to give them an equal opportunity to aspire to the vocations of their parents. A legal secretary took her daughter to work with…
WHO HAS WHAT The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little. --…
MARK TWAIN ON PRAISE I like compliments. I like to go home and tell them all over again to the members of my family. They don't believe them, but I like to tell them in…
WORKING FOR BANANAS One of the men on The Navigators staff is a Jamaican. Some years ago, he worked for a banana company near his home town of Kingston, in Jamaica. He was doing so…
BAD PRAISE "America's slide into the sewer is greased by praise. Yes, praise. When journalism flinches from presenting the raw reality, and instead says only that 2 Live Crew's lyrics are 'explicit' and 'controversial' and…
PRAISE SHOWS LIFE Not only is praise commanded of the living, but it is also a measure of spiritual vitality. Those who are alive in the Lord, and know they draw their very breath by…
