ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT TIME The following appeared in Ann Landers' column: I ran away from home because I didn't want to feed the dog, and found I didn't have enough money to feed myself. I ran…
Sermon Illustrations
OPEN AND READY TO LEARN The Roman scholar Cato started to study Greek when he was over 80. Someone asked why he tackled such a difficult task at his age. Cato said, "It's the earliest…
UNDERSTANDING ATTITUDE A surgeon was discussing a case with a class of medical students: The muscle in the patient's right leg has contracted until it is shorter than that in the left. Therefore, He limps.…
THE DIFFERENCE One ship drives east, and another west With the self-same winds that blow; 'Tis the set of the sails And not the gales, That decides the way we go./Like the winds of the…
THE FAULT One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony…
HOPE The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope. Samuel Johnson
FEAR makes the wolf bigger than he is.
DREAMS Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. Langston Hughes
RELUCTANCE There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it with reluctance.
ATTITUDES ARE INFECTIOUS It's tough to soar with eagles when you work with turkeys.
THINK IMPOSSIBLE Attempt something so impossible that unless God is in it, it is doomed to failure. John Haggai
AIM HIGH Who shoots at the mid-day sun, though he be sure he shall never hit the mark, yet as sure he is he shall shoot higher than he who aims at a bush. Sir…
FOLLOW THE IMPULSE One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. Helen Keller
MIDDLE AGE is when you try to find out where the action is so you can go someplace else. Patricia Leimbach, Women's Day
ALL I WANT is to be treated like everyone else, no matter how revoltingly different I am. Ashleigh Brillian
LISTEN TO YOUR FATHER'S VOICE I feel constrained to share something with you that was a tremendous blessing and inspiration to me. Lisa Groves is one of our Overseas Crusades missionaries in Brazil. She recently…
RELATING TO ONE ANOTHER In no area of our lives is the cross's way of relating -- forgiving one another, being kind to one another, and treating one another kindly -- more needed than in…
COMMUNICATION -- GET THE FULL MESSAGE A cluster of small boys, obviously without the price of admission, milled about near one of the entrance gates to a football stadium. An observer said to the ticket-taker…
CONDITIONED Years ago the Denver Zoo had a difficult decision to make. They were offered the gift of a beautiful, large polar bear, but the problem was that there was no existing room for the…
OPPORTUNITY An old Chinese adage says: "Opportunity has a forelock so you can seize it when you meet it. Once it is past, you cannot seize it again." Our English word opportunity comes from the…
