QUOTES ON AMERICA America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. - GEORGES CLEMENCEAU When a customs official asked Oscar Wilde…
Sermon Illustrations
THE LEADER'S PRAYER Lord, when I am wrong, make me willing to change. When I am right, make me easy to live with. So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed…
HIGH UPS CAN DO NOTHING A rabbit is walking down the road. He sees a crow very, very high up on a pole. The rabbit says, "Hello Mr. Crow, what are you doing?" The crow…
ADVANCEMENT POSSIBLE A Rabbi and a Priest were sitting together on a train, and the Rabbi leans over and asks, "So how high can you advance in your organization?" The Priest says, "If I am…
A COMPLETED CAR A priest and a rabbi operated a church and a synagogue across the street from each other. Since their schedules intertwined, they decided to go in together to buy a car. After…
CALLED TO EVANGELIZE "Not called!" did you say? "Not heard the call," I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of…
METRIC DISCIPLES If man were meant to use the metric system, Jesus would have had ten disciples.
WHY THE CHICKEN CROSSED THE ROAD? PAT BUCHANAN To steal a job from a decent, hardworking American. DR. SEUSS Did the chicken cross the road? Did he cross it with a toad? Yes! The chicken…
ENDING REVOLTS In revolts, as in novels, the ending is the hardest part. -- Alex De Tocqueville
FAITH PROTECTS DOUBT Faith lives in the same apartment building as Doubt. When Faith was out of town visiting her uncle in the hospital, Doubt fed the cat and watered the asparagus fern. Faith is…
ONE WITH EVERYTHING What did the Zen master say to the hot dog vendor? Make me one with everything.
PRESIDENTIAL POLITENESS Barbara Bush wrote in her diary about presidential politeness: "(Pat Buchanan) endorsed George (Bush) strongly after cutting him to ribbons for month after month and was very extreme. It is hard for me…
AGES ON THE DOORS A seven-year-old girl went with her Brownie troop to visit a retirement home. When she returned from the outing, she was telling her mother all about it: "We visited a man…
MISUNDERSTANDING & MARRIAGE "I was married once," says a man in The Importance of Being Earnest. "It was the result of a misunderstanding between me and a young woman." From Love & Marriage, by Bill…
TOP HEAVY FUTURE FAMILIES In the photograph of a family gathering in 2015, there will be a lot of gray heads with more people over 55 in the shot than children under 18. Demographers would…
HEART OF SORROW Godly sorrow has much greater influence to make the heart tender, than mere legal sorrow from selfish principles. The tenderness of the heart of a true Christian, is elegantly signified by our…
FORGOT YOU FORGAVE To err is human, To forgive takes restraint. To forget you forgave, Is the work of a saint. By Suzanne Douglass
POWER OF SPEECH If all my possessions were taken from me with one exception, I would choose to keep the power of speech, for by it I would soon regain the rest. -- Daniel Webster
AN EFFECTIVE SERMON An effective sermon begins where the congregation is and ends where God wants them to be. Michael Hodgin, editor of Saratoga Press
TIMING OF SILENCE Talking is like playing the harp. There is as much in laying the hands on the strings to stop their vibration as in twanging them to bring out their music. -- Oliver…
