NECESSARY ACTIONS A little boy's version of the Old Testament verse: "A lie is an abomination unto the Lord, and a very present help in trouble."
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TIE ALL MY LIFE A surprised mother found her four year old son crying as he was tying his shoes. "Why are you crying?" she asked. "I have to tie my shoes," he sobbed. "But…
WHEN WORK SPEAKS When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt! Anonymous
LIFE AND OUR BODIES A young man lives through his body, an old man lives against it. From Men in Mid-life Crisis, by Jim Conway, pg. 264
JUST FEED ONE If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. Mother Teresa
RELATIONSHIP DETERMINES ACTION Recently the governor of Oklahoma visited the city of Chickasha accompanied by an impressive motorcade of law enforcement vehicles, lights flashing and sirens wailing. It so happened that while a man stood…
DELAYED TURTLE ACTIONS A family of turtles went on a picnic -- Father Turtle, Mother Turtle, and Junior Turtle. They did not move very fast, so it took them three years to get to the…
DEEDS NEVER LOST A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy, reaps friendship; and he who paints kindness, gathers love. -- R. Brooks
INTEGRITY AND TRUTH "To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful." By Edward R. Murrow
KINDNESS by Grellet I shall pass through this world but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, Or any good thing I can do, Let me do it now; Let me not…
DOING THE RIGHT THING Self-discipline is when your conscience tells you to do something and you don't talk back. By W. K. Hope
DIFFERENT FAILURES notice the difference between what happens when a man says to himself, "I have failed three times," ...and what happens when he says, "I am a failure." S. I. Hayakawa
UNSEEN PLEASURES Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it. By Soren Kierkegaard
WITCHCRAFT IS ALSO REBELLION Selfishness and immorality are far more consistent with Satan's strategies than drinking blood or drawing pentagrams. By Al Menconi in Today's Music: A Window to Your Child's Soul
TALKING OR LISTENING For five years, the adult education department of Minneapolis Public Schools offered two courses in speech and one course in listening each term. The speech courses were always filled. The listening courses…
CHANGE NONE TOO SOON In 1802, municipal authorities of Rye, on the English coast, hired an armed sentry to keep watch for a Napoleonic invasion. The last man in the job was "Chummy" Barton. The…
SOCRATES ON ORATION Once a young man came to the great philosopher Socrates to be instructed in oratory. The moment the young man arrived, he began to speak, and there was an incessant stream for…
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IF YOU WANT IT DONE RIGHT From the nationally syndicated radio spot, "The Osgood File," January 6, 1995, a report concerned some Benedictine Monks in Virginia who support themselves with a fruitcake business -- a…
RESPIRATORY TERRORIST A young girl, whose mother is a respiratory therapist, was asked by her teacher what her mother did. The little girl said, "My mother is a respiratory terrorist who beats people (the physical…
IMAGINARY PROBLEMS One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations. By Steve Allen, How to Make a Speech
