Monthly Archive

"Even if you've been fishing for 3 hours and haven't gotten anything except poison ivy and sunburn, you're still better off than the worm." read more..

"Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critic read more..

"I would never want to reach out someday with a soft, uncallused hand -- a hand never dirtied by serving and shake the nail-pierced hand of Jesus." - Bill Hybels read more..

"When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer." - Corrie Ten Boom, author and Holocaust survivor read more..

"Some people can't find Jesus in the same way that a thief can't find a policeman." read more..

"Sacred cows make the best hamburger." - Mark Twain read more..

“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night, in the dusty recesses of their minds, awake in the day to find it was all vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may... read more..

"The man who gives in when he is wrong ... is wise. The man who gives in when he is right ... is married." read more..

"Discipline is that great quality few people use that enables them to be constructively busy all the time. Even in discouragement and defeat, discipline will rescue you and usher you to a new place to read more..

"We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about." - Charles Kingsley read more..

"The Christian life isn't difficult--it is impossible. If we don't know that, we will try to do things ourselves. Faith is not necessary when we think we can do it ourselves. Faith comes along when we read more..

"It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it." - Sam Levenson read more..

"If you are always shouting at your children, when it's really serious, they won't h-e-a-r you. A whisper beats a shout." - Mark Victor Hanseni read more..

"Your children need your presence more than your presents." read more..

"Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought." - Albert von Szent-Gyorgyi read more..

"Put your troubles in a pocket that has holes in it." read more..

"Better a witty fool than a foolish wit." - Shakespeare read more..

"What a father says to his children is not heard by the world; but it will be heard by posterity." - Jean Paul Richter read more..

"I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow read more..

"I have a God-given talent. I got it from my dad." - Julian Wakefield read more..

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it... Through violence you may murder th read more..

My friend's 5 year old granddaughter looked at the stars one night and exclaimed, "God's home! All his lights are on!"... read more..

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up." - Robert Frost read more..

A gushy reporter told Jack Nicklaus, "You are spectacular, your name is synonymous with the game of golf. You really know your way around the course. What's your secret?" Nicklaus replied, "The holes... read more..

"Some ministers would make good martyrs; they are so dry they would burn well." - Charles Haddon Spurgeon read more..

"Just when I was getting used to yesterday, along came today." read more..

A bell is no bell 'til you ring it, A song is no song 'til you sing it, And love in your heart Wasn't put there to stay - Love isn't love 'Til you give it away. -- Oscar Hammerstein from "The Sound O... read more..

"Mountains of gold would not seduce some men, yet flattery would break them down." - Henry Ward Beecher read more..

"Something's wrong when kids run wild and dogs are sent to obedience school." read more..

"People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them 'Benjamin Franklin' said it first." - David H. Comins read more..