TOUCHING STRANGERS This is a heart-warming story, but you may need to adapt it to your particular situation(s): Yitzak was a survivor. Liberated from a concentration camp in 1945, he had come to America, worked…
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WHAT WE ARE MISSING It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
CARSON'S AFTER DEATH EXPERIENCE For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off. -- Johnny Carson
SNAPPING UP OUR SELF-TALK Psychiatrist Paul Meier identifies the emotional pain caused by the way we speak to ourselves: "As a psychiatrist, I really believe that over half the emotional pain we humans suffer in…
A BROSE Tommy entered the classroom with a great big swollen nose that was red as a beet. His teacher gasped, "Tommy, what in the world happened to your nose?" Tommy answered, "I smelled a…
WHO MADE GOD This account is taken from an actual conversation by two children in Newport, England: Five-year-old Dorothy mused, "Mama, it does puzzle me so who made God! Because, you see, He must have…
WHOLE EAST COAST A church-going family took a girl who was visiting with them to church one Sunday. This girl had never gone to church in her life but seemed to enjoy the experience. When…
Apathy | Desire | Distractions | Failure | Failures | Goals | Obstacles | Perspective | Short Shorts
EYES OFF THE GOAL Obstacles are only what you see when you take your eyes off of the goal. Source Unknown
USING VICTORIOUS Those who know how to win are more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories. -- Polybius
GOD HELPS PEOPLE Christianity has as one of its most effective talking points the idea that God exists to help people to get ahead in this world. From Man: The Dwelling Place of God, A.…
PATRIOTISM DENOUNCED "My country right or wrong" is like saying, "My mother drunk or sober." No doubt if a decent man's mother took to drink, he would share her troubles to the last; but to…
ONE FAITHFUL LISTENER A young pastor was invited to speak at a conference in which there were multiple speakers. He was honored at the opportunity to speak and felt that this would be his first…
CONTRARY FAITH Faith is so contrary to nature, that its existence in the heart is like a spark burning in the sea. Faith is so much attacked in this evil day that it is like…
VITAL RELIGION There is no such thing as a good hand-me-down religion. To be vital, to be the best of which we are capable, our religion must be a wholly personal one, forged entirely through…
SPEAK BOLDLY OR CONFER When men believe God, they speak boldly. When they doubt, they confer. From Man: The Dwelling Place of God, A. W. Tozer
POSITIVE PAIN BLOCKERS Norman Cousins was a doctor who treated leprosy and edited the Saturday Review magazine in the early 1960s. After suffering a painful and prolonged illness, he became fascinated on ways in which…
BELIEVING RIGHT It is not enough that we believe; we must believe in the right thing about the right One.
ABSOLUTE SOLUTIONS Where you have absolute solutions . . . you have no need for faith. Faith is what you have in the absence of knowledge. By Flannery O'Connor in 1962
TACKLING EVIL I think that the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can. -- C. S. Lewis
IDEALS ARE LIKE STARS Ideals are like stars. We never reach them, but, like the mariners on the sea, we chart our course by them. -- Carl Schurz in a speech in Boston in 1859
