SPORTS QUOTES Timing Is Everything: It's good sportmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling. Mark Twain
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SPORTS QUOTES True Importance: When you're playing for the national championship, it's not a matter of life or death. It's more important than that. Duffy Daugherty, Michigan State football coach
OVERCOMING HANDICAPS In 1984 David Stevens of Wickenberg, Arizona tried out for the Minnesota Twins. He was a good high school baseball player and batter(.320); he also was state wrestling champ and played nose guard…
A NOVEL REACTION TO CRITICISM Jamie Buckingham writes in Coping With Criticism: For a number of years, until her death in 1976, I worked off and on with Kathryn Kuhlman as a writer. Although Miss…
A WISE AND HUMBLE PERSPECTIVE ON SUCCESS A newspaper reporter was interviewing an old rancher and asked him to what he would attribute his success as a rancher. With a twinkle in his eye the…
WHEN NOBODY BUT THE LORD WILL DO A hurricane had struck. People were huddled together. An old preacher was praying with great oratorical effects in the midst of this violent storm, crying out "Send us…
HOW OLD? A little child said, "Mother, how old must I be before I can be a Christian?" And the wise mother answered, "How old will you have to be, darling, before you can love…
MISPLACED FOCUS It was the first rain of the season and my windshield got worse as I drove. It wasn't long before my focus was on my windshield and how my wipers were doing. Then…
APPLAUSE The late Bishop Fulton J. Sheen was greeted by a burst of applause when he made his appearance as a speaker at a meeting in Minneapolis. He responded by saying: "Applause before a speaker…
A SMILE A smile costs nothing, but gives much. It enriches those who receive, without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever. None is…
THINGS THAT LAST Nothing lasts as long as a new breakfast cereal you can't stand, or wears as long as the ugly carpet whose bilious color you hate.
OBSERVATION We've had the same neighbors for 20 years. And not once did the lady next door explain why her soap powder is better than ours. Funny, Funny World
REALLY FAST Forget about jets, racing cars and speed boats. Nothing goes as fast as middle age. Funny, Funny World
THINKING BACK When Fred arrived at the Pearly Gates there was hardly any line and he didn't have to wait more than a minute before his interview. Naturally, he was a little nervous about getting…
COMING HOME Terry Morgan writes to us that his favorite way of looking at heaven is in terms of homecoming, particularly through the eyes of the story of the Prodigal in Luke 15. The father…
CHILDREN'S IDEAS ABOUT HEAVEN Here are some kids ideas about what heaven is like: One eight-year-old named Eric said, "It is a place where there is a lot of money lying around. You could just…
DEATH/HEAVEN A prominent citizen in town was dying. As he lay in his lovely home, the best doctors surrounding him, he whispered, with a note of despair, "I'm leaving home, I'm leaving home." Across town…
BE PREPARED Lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal. Matthew 6:20
THE SURE SIGN Early in my career as a doctor, I went to see a patient who was just coming out of anesthesia. Far off church chimes were sounding. The woman murmured, "I must be…
SAY GOODBYE TO THIS EARTH There was an old man on the isle of Crete and during his lifetime he loved many things. He loved his wife, his children, his job. But most of all…
