Acceptance | Art and Music | Compromise | Marriage | Perspective | Tolerance
THE MARRIAGE RECORD Marriage is like buying an old phonograph record at a garage sale; you get what you like on one side, but you have to take what you get on the other.
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Acceptance | Attitude | Compassion | Fellowship | Forgiveness | Tolerance
COPING WITH A DIFFICULT PERSON Coping with a difficult person is always a problem, especially if the difficult person happens to be yourself. — Anonymous
Attitude | Attitudes | Humor | Marriage | Relevance | Short ShortsAcceptance | Tolerance | Value
WHAT MARRIAGE CAN BE Marriage is mind over matter; if your spouse doesn’t mind, it doesn’t matter.
Acceptance | Conviction | Convictions | Discipleship | Love | Tolerance | Worldliness
TOLERANCE OR LOVE Tolerance says, “You must approve of what I do.” Love responds, “I must do something harder; I will love you, even when your behavior offends me.” Tolerance says, “you must agree with me.” Love responds, “I must do something harder; I will tell you the truth, because I am convinced ‘the truth …
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Compassion | Grace | Tolerance | Understanding | Weakness
TOLERANCE FOR TOLERANCE We all have weaknesses. But I have figured that others have put up with mine so tolerantly that I would be less than fair not to make a reasonable discount for theirs. William Allen White
Anger | Father | Listening | Patience | Perspective | Speech | Tolerance | Understanding
COURAGE ENOUGH TO WAIT A father was unmercifully bawled out in front of his son for breaking some minor infraction on the train. When the minor train official had finished venting and moved on, the son was incensed that the father should have allowed the man to speak in such a manner. The father replied, …
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Adversity | Commitment | Conflict | Convictions | Courage | Desire | Hitler | Reward | Tolerance | War
CHURCHILL’S CALL TO COURAGE Here are some words of courage from Winston Churchill: “What General Weygand called the Battle of France is over. I expect that the Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the survival of Christian civilization. Upon it depends our own British life and the long continuity of …
Church | Conflict | Doctrine | Essentials | Freedom | Love | Tolerance | Unity
LUTHERAN UNITY “In the essentials, unity in the non- essentials, liberty (tolerance). In all things charity (love) By Philipp Melanchthon, the great Lutheran reformer
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A SICK MARRIAGE Marriage counselor Lindsay Curtis often hands his clients a calling card that lists seven warning signals of a sick marriage: 1. When common courtesies are abandoned; 2. When couples begin to think in terms of I instead of we; 3. When they stop complimenting each other; 4. When stubborn silence replaces common …
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Example | Influence | Leadership | Patience | Strength | Tolerance | Weakness
POWER TO INFLUENCE The man who is impatient with weakness will be defective in his leadership. The evidence of our strength lies not in streaking ahead but in a willingness to adapt our stride to the slower pace of our weaker brethren, while not forfeiting our lead. If we run too far ahead, we lose …
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Aging | Character | Choice | Discretion | Knowledge | Short Shorts | Tolerance | Wisdom
WISDOM OVERLOOKS THINGS The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. — William James, 1890
Authority | Denominations | Diversity | Doctrine | Ecuminical | Faith | Freedom | Politics | Protection | Tolerance
THOMAS PAINE ON RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY Thomas Paine offers a unique perspective on the benefits of religious diversity: As to religion, I hold it to be the indispensable duty of all government, to protect all conscientious professors thereof, and I know of no other business which government hath to do therewith…For myself I fully and conscientiously …