Nov 25
He ate so much over the holidays that he decided to quit cold turkey.
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." -- Charles Kettering
Everyone has problems, some are just better at hiding them.
There's something about believing God that'll cause God to pass over a million people just to get to you.-- Smith Wigglesworth
If We Quit Voting, Will They All Go Away?
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. - Dorothy Sarnoff
"Cardiovascular problems alone in America create over a thousand funerals a day… and 90% of the problem is neglect." -- Jim Rohn
"Don’t let the learning from your own experiences take too long.
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. --H.G. Wells
The news and truth are not the same thing. --Walter Lippmann
Do not grease a cookie sheet with WD-40.
- God is not asking you to make a promise that you cannot keep--He is asking you to receive a promise that only He can keep. -James Ryle
- Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. - Ray A. Kroc
“A lot of people are willing to give God credit, but so few ever give him cash.”
"Bishop McCabe, who was trying to raise a million dollars for missions, received in his mail one day many discouraging letters, except one from a little boy. When the bishop opened it, out tumbled a badly battered nickel. In the letter the boy had written: 'I'm so glad you are going to get a million dollars for missions. I'm going to help you get it, too. Here's a nickel toward it! It's all I've got now, but when you want any more, call on me!'"
Pressures Are Reasons, Not Justifications By Michael Josephson of Character Counts
We've located the source of moral deterioration in this country: Pressure. It's all around us, and it's wreaking havoc on society.
According to a survey of American workers, more than half said they did something unethical or illegal in the previous year because of pressure. In Florida, sheriff's employees who falsified crime statistics were under pressure. So were the Texas school administrators who lied about their dropout rates, the baseball players who took steroids, and all the youngsters who cheat on exams. Can you imagine the pressure all the cheating executives were under?
Pressure. Apparently it's overpowering, irresistible. We can't expect mere mortals to stand up to it. The only way to restore our moral ozone is to remove pressure so there's no reason to lie or cheat.
There's something appealing about shifting responsibility for every form of human weakness from the individual to the system. Don't blame the liar; blame the law. Don't blame the cheater; blame the test.
Please! Pressures are no more than temptations in disguise. The difference is, while we expect people to overcome temptation, we expect them to succumb to pressure.
Lots of people will lie, cheat, or steal in the face of pressure. But that's a reason, an explanation--not a justification. Pressures, temptations--call them what you will--are part of life. Sure, it would be helpful if we had less pressure, but it's far more important that we have more character.
We need to believe in the power of virtue and to expect moral courage, not to surrender when moral principles are challenged. We need to encourage and expect good people to do what's right, even when it's difficult or costly.
This is Michael Josephson reminding you that character counts.
TV TAGLINES
- A fool and his money are the prime-time television target audience.
- An idle mind is television's playground!
- But Daddy, you watched the news on television YESTERDAY.
- Television is a medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well-done
- There's just not enough sax and violins on television!
- Were there "radio dinners" before television?
- You aren't a kid any more when you can't remember the last time you lay on the floor to watch television.
- Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. -- Ann Landers
Ways to Survive the Holidays: The following are some helpful hints to help you survive the busiest time of the year:
* Remember what all the fuss is about. This is the time to give thanks for all that God has done and to celebrate the birth of our Savior. Let's keep that in focus. It's not about cooking the perfect dinner, throwing the perfect party or buying the perfect gift.
* Don't overdo it. Plan your activities and then stick to the plan. Don't allow yourself to get caught up in all the hustle and bustle unless you enjoy it and it charges your batteries.
* Plan time to rest and reflect. Take some time with a journal to write about your feelings and thoughts. Read a good book. Be alone with God.
* Remember and honor those that you miss. One of the toughest things about these special times is being reminded of who isn't with us. Loss is always painful, but it can be worse when we try to ignore it and don't acknowledge it. Instead, take some time to remember those who will be missing. Spend some time looking through the picture album and reminiscing about them. Then remember that they are with you in spirit and that they would want you to be happy and blessed.
* Build your own traditions. The things we learn from our families are wonderful, but remember to build your own traditions. Make them your own and enjoy them. Don't feel like you have to do it a particular way because grandma did it that way. Remember the story about the lady that always cut the end off her pot roast because her mother did it that way? It turns out that her mother's pan was too small and she had to cut off the end.
* The greatest gift is time spent with our loved ones. Make sure you get plenty of time with family and worry less about all the extra stuff. After all, it's just stuff. Love is the real thing.
Little Joey had just been put to bed for the umpteenth time and his mother's patience was starting to wear very thin.
"If I hear you call 'Mother' one more time, you will be punished, young man," she warned him sternly. For a while it was nice and quiet, and then.... she heard a small voice call meekly from the top of the stairs, "Mrs. Jones? Can I have a drink of water?".
Maury's wife likes to sing so she decided to join the church choir. From time to time she would practice while she was in the kitchen preparing dinner. Whenever she would start in on a song, Maury would head outside to the porch. His wife, with hurt feelings, finally said, "What's the matter, Maury? Don't you like my singing?"
Maury replied, "Honey, I love your singing, but I just want to make sure the neighbors know I'm not beating you."
Welsh-American architect Frank Lloyd Wright's vanity was legendary. At the age of 89, he agreed on the witness stand in court that he was the world's greatest living architect, and when his wife demurred, suggesting that he should be more modest, he rejoined, "You forget, Olgivanna, I was under oath."
Abraham Lincoln was hired to sue someone over a $2.50 debt. He didn't want to do it, but his client insisted. So Abe asked for a fee of $10, upfront. He then gave half to the defendant, who promptly paid his debt, and everyone went home happy.
George Santayana's father always traveled third class. When Santayana asked why, his father said: "Because there is no fourth class."
Clare Boothe Luce was once our ambassador to Italy. While she was living in a beautiful 17th-century Italian villa, she began to notice that she was always tired. She lost weight, and seemed to have less and less energy.
She sought medical care, and after a period of intense testing it was discovered that she was suffering from arsenic poisoning.
Everyone on her staff was given a security check, but it was soon established that none of her staff was trying to poison her. Which left the question: Where was the poisoning coming from?
Finally, they found the cause: It was the ceiling of the bedroom. There were beautiful designs of roses, ornately done in plaster relief, and they were painted with an old paint that contained arsenic lead. A fine dust fell from the roses, and Mrs. Luce was slowly being poisoned in her bed by the dust from the ornate roses.
“Similarly,” writes Bill Phillippe in A Stewardship Scrapbook, “we are in danger of being poisoned by the ornate culture and society in which we live. Our attitudes, concepts, values, can be eroded or poisoned by the materialistic values of those around us without our ever becoming aware of it until it is too late.”
Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone once featured a story about an inveterate gambler who dies and is taken to a room where there is a gambling table and a dealer. Every time he rolls the dice, he scores or wins. Every hand he holds is a winning hand. His living arrangements are plush and supplied with everything he could possibly want.
At first, the man believes he is in heaven. He was so happy. But then, he becomes aware that he is totally alone. The fun of sharing his winnings with someone else is missing. He finally concludes that he is not in paradise as he had at first thought. He is in hell.
"My wife suggested a book for me to read to enhance our relationship. It's titled: 'Women are from Venus, Men are Wrong.'"
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." -- Charles Kettering
Everyone has problems, some are just better at hiding them.
There's something about believing God that'll cause God to pass over a million people just to get to you.-- Smith Wigglesworth
If We Quit Voting, Will They All Go Away?
Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. - Dorothy Sarnoff
"Cardiovascular problems alone in America create over a thousand funerals a day… and 90% of the problem is neglect." -- Jim Rohn
"Don’t let the learning from your own experiences take too long.
We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery. --H.G. Wells
The news and truth are not the same thing. --Walter Lippmann
Do not grease a cookie sheet with WD-40.
- God is not asking you to make a promise that you cannot keep--He is asking you to receive a promise that only He can keep. -James Ryle
- Luck is a dividend of sweat. The more you sweat, the luckier you get. - Ray A. Kroc
“A lot of people are willing to give God credit, but so few ever give him cash.”
"Bishop McCabe, who was trying to raise a million dollars for missions, received in his mail one day many discouraging letters, except one from a little boy. When the bishop opened it, out tumbled a badly battered nickel. In the letter the boy had written: 'I'm so glad you are going to get a million dollars for missions. I'm going to help you get it, too. Here's a nickel toward it! It's all I've got now, but when you want any more, call on me!'"
Pressures Are Reasons, Not Justifications By Michael Josephson of Character Counts
We've located the source of moral deterioration in this country: Pressure. It's all around us, and it's wreaking havoc on society.
According to a survey of American workers, more than half said they did something unethical or illegal in the previous year because of pressure. In Florida, sheriff's employees who falsified crime statistics were under pressure. So were the Texas school administrators who lied about their dropout rates, the baseball players who took steroids, and all the youngsters who cheat on exams. Can you imagine the pressure all the cheating executives were under?
Pressure. Apparently it's overpowering, irresistible. We can't expect mere mortals to stand up to it. The only way to restore our moral ozone is to remove pressure so there's no reason to lie or cheat.
There's something appealing about shifting responsibility for every form of human weakness from the individual to the system. Don't blame the liar; blame the law. Don't blame the cheater; blame the test.
Please! Pressures are no more than temptations in disguise. The difference is, while we expect people to overcome temptation, we expect them to succumb to pressure.
Lots of people will lie, cheat, or steal in the face of pressure. But that's a reason, an explanation--not a justification. Pressures, temptations--call them what you will--are part of life. Sure, it would be helpful if we had less pressure, but it's far more important that we have more character.
We need to believe in the power of virtue and to expect moral courage, not to surrender when moral principles are challenged. We need to encourage and expect good people to do what's right, even when it's difficult or costly.
This is Michael Josephson reminding you that character counts.
TV TAGLINES
- A fool and his money are the prime-time television target audience.
- An idle mind is television's playground!
- But Daddy, you watched the news on television YESTERDAY.
- Television is a medium - so called because it is neither rare nor well-done
- There's just not enough sax and violins on television!
- Were there "radio dinners" before television?
- You aren't a kid any more when you can't remember the last time you lay on the floor to watch television.
- Television has proved that people will look at anything rather than each other. -- Ann Landers
Ways to Survive the Holidays: The following are some helpful hints to help you survive the busiest time of the year:
* Remember what all the fuss is about. This is the time to give thanks for all that God has done and to celebrate the birth of our Savior. Let's keep that in focus. It's not about cooking the perfect dinner, throwing the perfect party or buying the perfect gift.
* Don't overdo it. Plan your activities and then stick to the plan. Don't allow yourself to get caught up in all the hustle and bustle unless you enjoy it and it charges your batteries.
* Plan time to rest and reflect. Take some time with a journal to write about your feelings and thoughts. Read a good book. Be alone with God.
* Remember and honor those that you miss. One of the toughest things about these special times is being reminded of who isn't with us. Loss is always painful, but it can be worse when we try to ignore it and don't acknowledge it. Instead, take some time to remember those who will be missing. Spend some time looking through the picture album and reminiscing about them. Then remember that they are with you in spirit and that they would want you to be happy and blessed.
* Build your own traditions. The things we learn from our families are wonderful, but remember to build your own traditions. Make them your own and enjoy them. Don't feel like you have to do it a particular way because grandma did it that way. Remember the story about the lady that always cut the end off her pot roast because her mother did it that way? It turns out that her mother's pan was too small and she had to cut off the end.
* The greatest gift is time spent with our loved ones. Make sure you get plenty of time with family and worry less about all the extra stuff. After all, it's just stuff. Love is the real thing.
Little Joey had just been put to bed for the umpteenth time and his mother's patience was starting to wear very thin.
"If I hear you call 'Mother' one more time, you will be punished, young man," she warned him sternly. For a while it was nice and quiet, and then.... she heard a small voice call meekly from the top of the stairs, "Mrs. Jones? Can I have a drink of water?".
Maury's wife likes to sing so she decided to join the church choir. From time to time she would practice while she was in the kitchen preparing dinner. Whenever she would start in on a song, Maury would head outside to the porch. His wife, with hurt feelings, finally said, "What's the matter, Maury? Don't you like my singing?"
Maury replied, "Honey, I love your singing, but I just want to make sure the neighbors know I'm not beating you."
Welsh-American architect Frank Lloyd Wright's vanity was legendary. At the age of 89, he agreed on the witness stand in court that he was the world's greatest living architect, and when his wife demurred, suggesting that he should be more modest, he rejoined, "You forget, Olgivanna, I was under oath."
Abraham Lincoln was hired to sue someone over a $2.50 debt. He didn't want to do it, but his client insisted. So Abe asked for a fee of $10, upfront. He then gave half to the defendant, who promptly paid his debt, and everyone went home happy.
George Santayana's father always traveled third class. When Santayana asked why, his father said: "Because there is no fourth class."
Clare Boothe Luce was once our ambassador to Italy. While she was living in a beautiful 17th-century Italian villa, she began to notice that she was always tired. She lost weight, and seemed to have less and less energy.
She sought medical care, and after a period of intense testing it was discovered that she was suffering from arsenic poisoning.
Everyone on her staff was given a security check, but it was soon established that none of her staff was trying to poison her. Which left the question: Where was the poisoning coming from?
Finally, they found the cause: It was the ceiling of the bedroom. There were beautiful designs of roses, ornately done in plaster relief, and they were painted with an old paint that contained arsenic lead. A fine dust fell from the roses, and Mrs. Luce was slowly being poisoned in her bed by the dust from the ornate roses.
“Similarly,” writes Bill Phillippe in A Stewardship Scrapbook, “we are in danger of being poisoned by the ornate culture and society in which we live. Our attitudes, concepts, values, can be eroded or poisoned by the materialistic values of those around us without our ever becoming aware of it until it is too late.”
Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone once featured a story about an inveterate gambler who dies and is taken to a room where there is a gambling table and a dealer. Every time he rolls the dice, he scores or wins. Every hand he holds is a winning hand. His living arrangements are plush and supplied with everything he could possibly want.
At first, the man believes he is in heaven. He was so happy. But then, he becomes aware that he is totally alone. The fun of sharing his winnings with someone else is missing. He finally concludes that he is not in paradise as he had at first thought. He is in hell.
"My wife suggested a book for me to read to enhance our relationship. It's titled: 'Women are from Venus, Men are Wrong.'"
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