HOW TO REPAY DEBTS When Herbert Hoover was a student at Stanford University, he was a poor boy and had to work his way through college by selling newspapers, running a laundry service, and doing…
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SUFFERING WITHOUT GOD Rabbi Harold Kushner's book, When Bad Things Happen to Good People was a best seller not only because it is so well written, but also because it caters to a narcissistic age.…
WHO DOES JESUS THINK HE IS Jesus, Moses, Elijah, and St. Peter are playing a round of golf in heaven. Jesus is playing an absolutely perfect game well below par. By the sixteenth hole, the…
CHANGING SCIENCE The scientific facts, which were supposed to contradict the Faith in the nineteenth century, are nearly all of them regarded as unscientific fictions in the twentieth century. G. K. Chesterton in St. Thomas…
MORE STUPIDITY THAN HYDROGEN Some scientists claim that hydrogen, because it is so plentiful, is the basic building block of the universe. I dispute that. I say there is more stupidity than hydrogen, and that…
POLITICAL PUZZLES C. Richard Stone of Normal, Illinois sends some quotes from what he calls "razor-sharp political minds" including his own comments (-- C.R.S.)... I believe that this country's policies should be heavily biased in…
DOUBTS TODAY The only limitation to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. By President F. D. Roosevelt, from the inauguration of the president of Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska
NEVER NO NEWS The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were. -- David Brinkley
LOST DOG We have seen several versions of this story in the past and have finally gotten around to using one of them. It's a great illustration on mistaken identities. Every Sunday afternoon, the family…
DAYTIME TALK SHOWS Daytime talk shows, where pedophiles, Nazis, and husband-batterers roam free, may have social repercussions costlier than the entertainment value. The parade of deviants who hop from Oprah to Phil to Sally are…
PREMATURE END "I have a fantasy: If a terrorist organization were to simultaneously trigger all the world's alarm clocks, stove timers, beepers, factory whistles, car horns, doorbells, dinner bells, digital alarm clocks, fuzzbusters, car phones,…
VICTIMS NOT PREPARED One evening last year, shortly before 7:00 PM, a series of tornadoes ripped through Andover, Kansas. When it was all over thirteen people died in the storm. The interesting thing about it…
RICH ENOUGH He hath riches sufficient who hath enough to be charitable.
WOMEN & SECRETS A man -- who was not politically correct -- once said, "Women can keep secrets just as well as men. It just takes more women to do the job." Adapted from a…
IMAGINATION & JUDGMENT You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain
ORWELL ON VISION To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle. -- George Orwell
WHERE THERE'S A WILL, THERE'S MONEY Cecil Rhodes, the Diamond King, knew where he was going. Long before he ever amassed that huge fortune, he made out a will to dispose of it. That is…
BORN TO DIE All relationships end in parting; We are born to die. Death is commonplace. Parting is central to all relationships. The completion of a friendship requires separation. In death, a relationship is completed,…
MEN NEED FORGIVENESS MORE Average percentage increase in a wife's blood pressure during an argument with her husband: 6. Average percentage increase in a husband's blood pressure during an argument with his wife: 14. Men…
THE DOCTOR'S THUMB Paul Brandt is a renowned British plastic surgeon, and also a deeply dedicated Christian. His book, In His Image, was written to demonstrate what the human body has to say about its…
