Arguments You don’t beat a thesis with an antithesis; you beat it with a better thesis. (Jack Kemp, late American politician) Kemp’s comment would seem to be so helpful in today’s difficult political scene. Instead of always trying to prove the other fellow wrong by a...
Principles When you base your life on principles, 99% of your decisions are already made. (Dave Ramsey, financial advisor) Too many of us today seem to live our lives on the basis of feelings, circumstances, a popular current blog, or podcast values. They change so...
More Than Words Words are only part of the way meaning is conveyed. There’s almost always more. (Brent Sandy, author) Do you remember what it was like to watch your children learn how to use words? We often marveled at how quickly their vocabulary grew. We soon...
Words The words and actions of other people are a reflection of them, not of us. (Jesse Deloe, writer) We’ve all learned that the old saying that “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” is simply not true. Words do hurt, but Deloe’s idea...
Guard Your Mind We must be careful what we allow to access our minds today, for it may entice, captivate, and enslave our hearts tomorrow. (Christine Trier, young career woman) Our minds are constantly being bombarded with all kinds of information, data, and...
Election Day The most important office, and the one which all of us can and should fill is that of private citizen. (Louis Brandeis, 20th century US supreme court justice) Perhaps you never thought of yourself as holding an “important office” in your government, but...
Ego Learn to admire others. It is the first step to overcome your ego. (Ehsan Sehgal, Dutch-Pakistani author and journalist) We don’t like to think we’re egotistical or proud, but there are times when we realize that we’ve fallen into a “me first” frame of mind. Maybe...
Jesus Speaks: The Alpha and the Omega Jesus was sent by God to visit earth over 2,000 years ago. What He said was recorded by eyewitnesses in the book of Mathew, Mark, Luke, and John in the Bible. After His death Jesus appeared to John and told him to write down what...
Anger Anger, resentment, and jealousy [don’t] change the heart of others – [they] only change yours. (Shannon L. Alder, author) Sometimes when we’ve been wronged or someone has hurt us badly, it feels so good to get really mad and vent our anger somehow. But that good...
Habits We cling to the familiar and never stop to think... If we keep doing what we've always done, we will keep getting what we've already got. (Henry Ford, auto pioneer) “We’ve always done it that way” is just about the worst possible reason for continuing. Albert...
Equality The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. (Aristotle, 4th century B.C. Greek philosopher) From the U.S. Declaration of Independence more than two centuries ago to today’s loud voices and demonstrations, equality is a much used and...
Destiny We write our own destiny. We become what we do. (Madame Chiang Kai-shek, late Chinese political figure) Making choices through life pretty well determines what we become. Choices result in actions; we make a choice and we move on. The sum of those choices...