SCIENCE & MILK Science continues to do amazing things, but sitting under a tree, looking at cows in the meadow on a summer's day, one has to remember that the greatest scientists in the world…
Sermon Illustrations
EXCITING LEARNING Joseph Esherick, architect: "I get fascinated with anything I don't understand, and since I hardly understand anything, I have a very busy life." Jacques Leslie in the New York Times
GREAT ACT OF FAITH The great act of faith is when man decides that he is not God. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
MAN AS A BEAST A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast the less he knows of it. -- George MacDonald
LOOK AT THE LEGS A student in a biology class was given the assignment to learn about birds. He was to learn the classification, the scientific name, the common name, and characteristics of all the…
WISDOM IS LISTENING At the beginning of his reign, King Solomon prayed one superior gift from God. Not wealth, not long life, but something far more valuable -- he asked for "an understanding heart," which…
WISE FRIENDS I would rather have speeches that are true than those which contain merely nice distinctions. Just as I would rather have friends who are wise than merely those who are handsome. Augustine, quoted…
GOD & LIFE When the fear of God is gone, the decisions of daily life are threatened. By Roberta Hestnes
UNDERSTAND ONE WOMAN A man and woman should choose each other for life. A long life is barely enough for a man and woman to understand each other; and to understand is to love. The…
HISTORY'S REPEATS "There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before. -- Will Cather
MARK TWAIN ON HISTORICAL REMAINS Mark Twain claims he received a manuscript from a teacher who shared her students answers of her questions. His account may be fictitious, but the results -- whether from students…
HUMAN DECLINE James Gollin remembers Cleanth Brooks: "Brooks' father was a Methodist minister. Brooks himself, an Episcopalian who served for years as senior warden of his parish, belonged to perhaps the last generation of American…
CHINESE DEMOCRACY A Chinese student observed: "I don't know exactly what democracy is. But we need more of it." A Chinese student to The New York Times
CHANGING THOUGHTS He who cannot change the very fabric of his thought will never be able to change reality. Anwar Sadat, In Search of Identity
CLEAR DECISION The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Henri Frederic Amiel
CURIOSITY IN CHILDREN I think, at a child's birth, a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. Eleanor Roosevelt in The Saturday Evening…
EXPLOSIVE MOTTO Two explosive experts told what their motto was: "If you see us running, you had better catch up."
WHAT WORD? William Goodin writes: One day I was talking to a Charismatic Christian in town about a local faith healing revival. The lady enthused, "Then he healed a man suffering from constipation with a…
WIERD OR WISE? In the movie, "Almost an Angel," Patti Hogan was trying to arbitrate between two kids at a recreation center who wanted the same ping pong paddle. He tried using the story of…
FAKE LICENSE STOLEN A twenty-year-old University of Illinois student called the campus police to complain he had loaned his fake driver's license to a friend, which was confiscated at a Normal, Illinois pub, and he…
