August 12
Too many Christians are no longer fishers of men but keepers of the aquarium.
Every morning when you get up, refuse to dwell on what you did wrong the day before. Refuse to dwell on yesterday's disappointments.
Get up each day knowing that God is a loving and forgiving God, and he has great things in store for you.
If you make your church important, it is quite likely to return the favor.
Many people go to church praying that they will hear preaching that will hit someone else.
A church without a purpose is like a house without a door - it has no reason to exist.
The church is not made up of people who are better than the rest, but of people who are trying to become better than they are.
The church is God's workhouse where His jewels are being polished for His palace.
"Cured ham? No thanks, pal. Cured of what? What if it has a relapse on my plate?"
My young grandson called the other day to wish me Happy Birthday. He asked me how old I was, and I told him, "60."
He was quiet for a moment, and then he asked, "Did you start at 1?"
How to Solve Your Physical Problems.
Yesterday I went to the doctor for my yearly physical. My blood pressure was high, my cholesterol was high, I'd gained some weight, and I didn't feel so hot.
My doctor said eating right doesn't have to be complicated and it would solve my physical problems. He said just think in colors; Fill your plate with bright colors; greens, yellows, reds, etc.
I went right home and ate an entire bowl of M&M's and sure enough, I felt better immediately. I never knew eating right could be so easy
A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like: "We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods." The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this in. At last she said, "I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner!"
A little girl was diligently pounding away on her grandfather's word processor. She told him she was writing a story. "What's it about?" he asked.
"I don't know," she replied. "I can't read."
I didn't know if my granddaughter had learned her colors yet, so I decided to test her. I would point out something and ask what color it was. She would tell me, and always she was correct. But it was fun for me, so I continued. At last she headed for the door, saying sagely, "Grandma, I think you should try to figure out some of these yourself!"
A West Virginia state trooper stopped a woman for going 15 miles over the speed limit. After he handed her a ticket, she asked him, "Don't you give out warnings?" "Yes, ma'am," he replied. "They're all up and down the road. They say, 'Speed Limit 55.' "
Summer Break was over and the teacher was asking the class about their vacations. She turned to little Johnny and asked what he did over the break.
"We visited my grandmother in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania," he replied.
"That sounds like an excellent vocabulary word," the teacher said. "Can you tell the class how you spell that?"
Little Johnny thought about it and said, "You know, come to think of it, we went to Ohio."
DETERMINATION
"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you." -- Denis Waitley
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." -- Ella Fitzgerald
"I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination... that I persevered. Because I think that being somewhat of a pest to life, constantly plaguing and pursuing, will bring results." -- Sylvester Stallone
"I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000l-step process." -- Thomas A. Edison
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. IF you think about that, you'll do things differently." -- Warren Buffett
“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting” - St. Jerome
"All of us are entitled to our own opinions, but not our own facts." - Daniel Moynihan, former U.S. senator
"On cable TV they have a weather channel – 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window." - Dan Spencer
"I know God won't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much." - Mother Theresa
Only about 50 religious ministries existed in the workplace in the early 1990s. There are more than 900 currently. - Source: USA Today
"Any married man should forget his mistakes, there's no use in two people remembering the same thing." "Freedom of speech is wonderful - right up there with the freedom not to listen"
A Race to the Finish Inspiration by Renee Harms
The Olympics are almost here, and once again the whole world is looking on as thousands of world athletes--the best of the best--compete for the gold. For years they have trained, sacrificed and dreamed, knowing that the gold medal and the honor it carries can only be given to the best performer.
But they consider the prize worth the cost. So, they pour their life into it.
What if we lived for Christ with as much purpose and discipline as the Olympic athletes? Centuries ago, Paul--who was familiar with the Olympic games even then--wrote to the Corinthians,
"Remember that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize. You also must run in such a way that you will win. All athletes practice strict self-control. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. So I run straight to the goal with purpose in every step. I am not like a boxer who misses his punches. I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified." (1 Cor. 9:24-27)
We may not all be athletes fit for the Olympics, but we are all running the race of our lives, and eternal life with Christ is the prize. Will you do whatever it takes to win?
Words of Wisdom
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." -- Gerald Rudolph Ford
"The person who upsets you the most is your best teacher, because they bring you face to face with who you are." -- Lynn Andrews
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Character, in the long-run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike." – Theodore Roosevelt
"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by obvious realities. We need men and women who can dream of things that never were." -- John F. Kennedy
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. IF you think about that, you'll do things differently." -- Warren Buffett
"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it." -- John Ruskin
"If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it will always be yours. If it doesn't come back, it was never yours to begin with. But, if it just sits in your living room, messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your telephone, takes your money, and doesn't appear to realize that you had set it free....... You either married it or gave birth to it"
A song can often touch people in a way that a sermon can't. Music can bypass intellectual barriers and take the message straight to the heart
Human friends can weep with us when we weep; but Jesus is a friend, who when He has wept with us, can wipe away all our tears. --William Nevins
Deep Blue
Ravi Zacharias writes, "You may recall the chess victory of the computer 'Deep Blue' over the world champion Gary Kasparov, which caused many to compare the similarities of machines and humans. Yale professor David Gelertner disagrees. He writes:
"'The idea that Deep Blue has a mind is absurd. How can an object that wants nothing, fears nothing, enjoys nothing, needs nothing, and cares about nothing have a mind? It can win at chess, but not because it wants to. It isn't happy when it wins or sad when it loses. What are its [post]-match plans if it beats Kasparov? Is it hoping to take Deep Pink out for a
night on the town?'". David Gelertner, "How Hard Is Chess?"
Collected Quotes from Reader's Digest
- When dogs leap onto your bed, it's because they adore being with you. When cats leap onto your bed, it's because they adore your bed. - Alisha Everett
- Overheard in a brokerage: "I worry about economists who are so young that they think the Great Depression was ended by Prozac."
- When a friend asked his six-year-old brother why babies are spanked when they are born, the youngster replied, "To get them used to it." - Doug Belknap & Chad Goodwin
-Veterinarian examining cat to cat's owner: "I'm afraid we'll have to keep him overnight. Are you going to need a loaner?" - M. Twohy
- You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. - P. J. O-Rourke
- The only difference between a yard sale and a trash pickup is how close to the road the stuff is placed. - Mary F. Lindahl's Husband
To confirm her suspicions, my sister needed to purchase a pregnancy test kit. Since I was going to the pharmacy, she asked me to pick one up.
I didn't stop to think how I appeared to the clerk when I waddled up nine months pregnant to pay for the kit.
"Honey," she said, "I can save you $15 right now. You're definitely going to have a baby."
Every morning when you get up, refuse to dwell on what you did wrong the day before. Refuse to dwell on yesterday's disappointments.
Get up each day knowing that God is a loving and forgiving God, and he has great things in store for you.
If you make your church important, it is quite likely to return the favor.
Many people go to church praying that they will hear preaching that will hit someone else.
A church without a purpose is like a house without a door - it has no reason to exist.
The church is not made up of people who are better than the rest, but of people who are trying to become better than they are.
The church is God's workhouse where His jewels are being polished for His palace.
"Cured ham? No thanks, pal. Cured of what? What if it has a relapse on my plate?"
My young grandson called the other day to wish me Happy Birthday. He asked me how old I was, and I told him, "60."
He was quiet for a moment, and then he asked, "Did you start at 1?"
How to Solve Your Physical Problems.
Yesterday I went to the doctor for my yearly physical. My blood pressure was high, my cholesterol was high, I'd gained some weight, and I didn't feel so hot.
My doctor said eating right doesn't have to be complicated and it would solve my physical problems. He said just think in colors; Fill your plate with bright colors; greens, yellows, reds, etc.
I went right home and ate an entire bowl of M&M's and sure enough, I felt better immediately. I never knew eating right could be so easy
A grandmother was telling her little granddaughter what her own childhood was like: "We used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing made from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods." The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this in. At last she said, "I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner!"
A little girl was diligently pounding away on her grandfather's word processor. She told him she was writing a story. "What's it about?" he asked.
"I don't know," she replied. "I can't read."
I didn't know if my granddaughter had learned her colors yet, so I decided to test her. I would point out something and ask what color it was. She would tell me, and always she was correct. But it was fun for me, so I continued. At last she headed for the door, saying sagely, "Grandma, I think you should try to figure out some of these yourself!"
A West Virginia state trooper stopped a woman for going 15 miles over the speed limit. After he handed her a ticket, she asked him, "Don't you give out warnings?" "Yes, ma'am," he replied. "They're all up and down the road. They say, 'Speed Limit 55.' "
Summer Break was over and the teacher was asking the class about their vacations. She turned to little Johnny and asked what he did over the break.
"We visited my grandmother in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania," he replied.
"That sounds like an excellent vocabulary word," the teacher said. "Can you tell the class how you spell that?"
Little Johnny thought about it and said, "You know, come to think of it, we went to Ohio."
DETERMINATION
"Determination gives you the resolve to keep going in spite of the roadblocks that lay before you." -- Denis Waitley
"Just don't give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don't think you can go wrong." -- Ella Fitzgerald
"I think I'd like to be remembered as someone who beat the odds through just plain determination... that I persevered. Because I think that being somewhat of a pest to life, constantly plaguing and pursuing, will bring results." -- Sylvester Stallone
"I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000l-step process." -- Thomas A. Edison
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. IF you think about that, you'll do things differently." -- Warren Buffett
“When the stomach is full, it is easy to talk of fasting” - St. Jerome
"All of us are entitled to our own opinions, but not our own facts." - Daniel Moynihan, former U.S. senator
"On cable TV they have a weather channel – 24 hours of weather. We had something like that where I grew up. We called it a window." - Dan Spencer
"I know God won't give me more than I can handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much." - Mother Theresa
Only about 50 religious ministries existed in the workplace in the early 1990s. There are more than 900 currently. - Source: USA Today
"Any married man should forget his mistakes, there's no use in two people remembering the same thing." "Freedom of speech is wonderful - right up there with the freedom not to listen"
A Race to the Finish Inspiration by Renee Harms
The Olympics are almost here, and once again the whole world is looking on as thousands of world athletes--the best of the best--compete for the gold. For years they have trained, sacrificed and dreamed, knowing that the gold medal and the honor it carries can only be given to the best performer.
But they consider the prize worth the cost. So, they pour their life into it.
What if we lived for Christ with as much purpose and discipline as the Olympic athletes? Centuries ago, Paul--who was familiar with the Olympic games even then--wrote to the Corinthians,
"Remember that in a race everyone runs, but only one person gets the prize. You also must run in such a way that you will win. All athletes practice strict self-control. They do it to win a prize that will fade away, but we do it for an eternal prize. So I run straight to the goal with purpose in every step. I am not like a boxer who misses his punches. I discipline my body like an athlete, training it to do what it should. Otherwise, I fear that after preaching to others I myself might be disqualified." (1 Cor. 9:24-27)
We may not all be athletes fit for the Olympics, but we are all running the race of our lives, and eternal life with Christ is the prize. Will you do whatever it takes to win?
Words of Wisdom
"A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have." -- Gerald Rudolph Ford
"The person who upsets you the most is your best teacher, because they bring you face to face with who you are." -- Lynn Andrews
"Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men." -- Martin Luther King Jr.
"Character, in the long-run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike." – Theodore Roosevelt
"The problems of the world cannot possibly be solved by skeptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by obvious realities. We need men and women who can dream of things that never were." -- John F. Kennedy
"It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. IF you think about that, you'll do things differently." -- Warren Buffett
"The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it." -- John Ruskin
"If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it will always be yours. If it doesn't come back, it was never yours to begin with. But, if it just sits in your living room, messes up your stuff, eats your food, uses your telephone, takes your money, and doesn't appear to realize that you had set it free....... You either married it or gave birth to it"
A song can often touch people in a way that a sermon can't. Music can bypass intellectual barriers and take the message straight to the heart
Human friends can weep with us when we weep; but Jesus is a friend, who when He has wept with us, can wipe away all our tears. --William Nevins
Deep Blue
Ravi Zacharias writes, "You may recall the chess victory of the computer 'Deep Blue' over the world champion Gary Kasparov, which caused many to compare the similarities of machines and humans. Yale professor David Gelertner disagrees. He writes:
"'The idea that Deep Blue has a mind is absurd. How can an object that wants nothing, fears nothing, enjoys nothing, needs nothing, and cares about nothing have a mind? It can win at chess, but not because it wants to. It isn't happy when it wins or sad when it loses. What are its [post]-match plans if it beats Kasparov? Is it hoping to take Deep Pink out for a
night on the town?'". David Gelertner, "How Hard Is Chess?"
Collected Quotes from Reader's Digest
- When dogs leap onto your bed, it's because they adore being with you. When cats leap onto your bed, it's because they adore your bed. - Alisha Everett
- Overheard in a brokerage: "I worry about economists who are so young that they think the Great Depression was ended by Prozac."
- When a friend asked his six-year-old brother why babies are spanked when they are born, the youngster replied, "To get them used to it." - Doug Belknap & Chad Goodwin
-Veterinarian examining cat to cat's owner: "I'm afraid we'll have to keep him overnight. Are you going to need a loaner?" - M. Twohy
- You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going. - P. J. O-Rourke
- The only difference between a yard sale and a trash pickup is how close to the road the stuff is placed. - Mary F. Lindahl's Husband
To confirm her suspicions, my sister needed to purchase a pregnancy test kit. Since I was going to the pharmacy, she asked me to pick one up.
I didn't stop to think how I appeared to the clerk when I waddled up nine months pregnant to pay for the kit.
"Honey," she said, "I can save you $15 right now. You're definitely going to have a baby."
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