June 13
It’s easy to stand for truth if you don’t love, and it’s easy to seem loving if you forfeit the truth. Living for Jesus requires both. – Rick Warren
"The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile." -- Bruce Barton
"Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd; a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more." -- A. Lou Vickery
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." -- Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
"Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment." -- Sidney Poitier
"Learn to...be what you are, and learn to resign with good grace all that you are not." -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The teenager lost a contact lens while playing basketball in his driveway. After a fruitless search, he told his mother the lens was nowhere to be found.
Undaunted, she went outside and in a few minutes returned with the lens in her hand.
"How did you manage to find it, Mom?" the teenager asked.
"We weren't looking for the same thing," she replied. "You were looking for a small piece of plastic. I was looking for $150."
"Not all revolutions begin in the streets with tanks and guns. Some advance slowly, almost imperceptibly, until a nation is transformed and the public realizes too late that their freedoms are gone. Such is the revolution now taking place in America." -- Cal Thomas
“Heroism is endurance for one moment more.” -- George F. Kennan
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” -- Arthur Ashe
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." – Albert Einstein
We are all as close to God as we want to be. We are also as far from Him as we choose to be. Rick Joyner
There are three signs of old age. The first is your loss of memory, the other two I forget.
"What lies behind us and what lies between us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." --Oliver Wendell Holmes
No one told any better golf stories than Bob Hope. "Jerry Ford was the first person to make golf a contact sport. When he yelled, 'Fore!', you never knew if he was telling people to get out of the way or predicting how many spectators he was going to hit."
And again: "My new partner asked me what I shot. I said, 'I shot in the low 70s.' He said, 'Honestly?' I said, 'What's that got to do with it!"' (ed. note: For too many people today, "honesty" has too little to do with anything.)
One day the zoo-keeper noticed that the orangutan was reading two books -- the Bible and Darwin's Origin of Species.
In surprise he asked the ape, "Why are you reading both those books?"
"Well," said the orangutang, "I just wanted to know if I was my brother's keeper or my keeper's brother."
Have you ever tried to accomplish a task using the wrong tool? It’s like trying to turn a slotted screw with a Phillips’ screwdriver! They don’t fit, the screw doesn’t turn. You need the right tool to match the requirements of the job. Building a household of faith is much the same way. Our Scripture lessons for today tell us God needs willing hearts, attitudes of reconciliation, and “just the right person with the right gifts for the right job.” You may wonder if you possess the right tools/skills for “faith-building” - you do, God has already given them to you. So stop hitting that nail with the handle of the screwdriver!
+ The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet (developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications).
+ The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
+ In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
"The big rewards come to those who travel the second, undemanded mile." -- Bruce Barton
"Four short words sum up what has lifted most successful individuals above the crowd; a little bit more. They did all that was expected of them and a little bit more." -- A. Lou Vickery
"The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us." -- Francois-Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
"Living consciously involves being genuine; it involves listening and responding to others honestly and openly; it involves being in the moment." -- Sidney Poitier
"Learn to...be what you are, and learn to resign with good grace all that you are not." -- Henri Frederic Amiel
The teenager lost a contact lens while playing basketball in his driveway. After a fruitless search, he told his mother the lens was nowhere to be found.
Undaunted, she went outside and in a few minutes returned with the lens in her hand.
"How did you manage to find it, Mom?" the teenager asked.
"We weren't looking for the same thing," she replied. "You were looking for a small piece of plastic. I was looking for $150."
"Not all revolutions begin in the streets with tanks and guns. Some advance slowly, almost imperceptibly, until a nation is transformed and the public realizes too late that their freedoms are gone. Such is the revolution now taking place in America." -- Cal Thomas
“Heroism is endurance for one moment more.” -- George F. Kennan
“True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.” -- Arthur Ashe
"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." – Albert Einstein
We are all as close to God as we want to be. We are also as far from Him as we choose to be. Rick Joyner
There are three signs of old age. The first is your loss of memory, the other two I forget.
"What lies behind us and what lies between us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." --Oliver Wendell Holmes
No one told any better golf stories than Bob Hope. "Jerry Ford was the first person to make golf a contact sport. When he yelled, 'Fore!', you never knew if he was telling people to get out of the way or predicting how many spectators he was going to hit."
And again: "My new partner asked me what I shot. I said, 'I shot in the low 70s.' He said, 'Honestly?' I said, 'What's that got to do with it!"' (ed. note: For too many people today, "honesty" has too little to do with anything.)
One day the zoo-keeper noticed that the orangutan was reading two books -- the Bible and Darwin's Origin of Species.
In surprise he asked the ape, "Why are you reading both those books?"
"Well," said the orangutang, "I just wanted to know if I was my brother's keeper or my keeper's brother."
Have you ever tried to accomplish a task using the wrong tool? It’s like trying to turn a slotted screw with a Phillips’ screwdriver! They don’t fit, the screw doesn’t turn. You need the right tool to match the requirements of the job. Building a household of faith is much the same way. Our Scripture lessons for today tell us God needs willing hearts, attitudes of reconciliation, and “just the right person with the right gifts for the right job.” You may wonder if you possess the right tools/skills for “faith-building” - you do, God has already given them to you. So stop hitting that nail with the handle of the screwdriver!
+ The sentence "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter in the alphabet (developed by Western Union to test telex/twx communications).
+ The only 15-letter word that can be spelled without repeating a letter is uncopyrightable.
+ In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them to mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's."
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