STOP AND THINK - Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. (Helen Keller, American author and lecturer) This is the last day of the first month of a new year. Do you remember...
STOP AND THINK - All men die, but few men ever really live. (Jim Brown, American pastor) Living is one thing; being alive might be another. Some people seem to get more out of life than others, don’t they? It might be because they put more into it. But, whatever the...
STOP AND THINK - Everybody has to live for something. Whatever it is becomes “Lord of your life” whether you think of it that way or not. (Tim Keller, prominent pastor and author) What are you living for? Fame, fortune, recognition? Do you aspire to be an Olympic...
Time is a commodity that we can’t buy, can’t get back. It doesn’t matter if you made the most of it or wasted it, once it has passed, it’s gone. So the question is, what do we do with the limited time we have? None of us know exactly how much that is. It’s easy to...
STOP AND THINK - Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. (Sydney J. Harris, American journalist) That’s a pretty strong statement. Sounds like Harris is saying that...
STOP AND THINK - The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices. (Frederick II, the Great, 18th century king of Prussia) Discovering truth is not only the task of scientists and...
STOP AND THINK - If we love people even when they are unlovable, then we provide an opportunity for them to change. (Ken Blanchard, author and management expert) Wow! How do you love someone who is unlovable? Blanchard doesn’t tell us how, but he points to the benefit...
STOP AND THINK - I've found that worry and irritation vanish into thin air the moment I open my mind to the many blessings I possess. (Inspiration Line) We can really be discouraged, almost depressed, can’t we, when we are burdened with concerns and problems? Too...
Recently, I was sitting in a class my church was offering. The speaker was discussing the story Jesus told about the man who was going on a journey and entrusted his wealth to three other people to take care while he was gone. In this story, two of the people doubled...
STOP AND THINK - Each time a person … acts to improve the lot of others … he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and [joined by other such acts) … these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. (Robert F. Kennedy,...
STOP AND THINK - If wrinkles must be written upon our brows, let them not be written upon our hearts. (James A. Garfield, 20th president of the United States) Wrinkles seem to be an inevitable indication of age. Or, perhaps, wrinkles appear on the brow as a result of...
STOP AND THINK - Keep your face always toward the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you. (Walt Whitman, 19th century American poet and essayist) Some people seem always to be looking into the shadows, afraid of the light and wanting to hide from life’s...