Treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend all the care, kindness, and understanding you can. (Og Mandino, late American author) How would our lives be changed if we followed Mandino’s advice? How would it affect our community, our...
It is not what we do that determines who we are. It is who we are that determines what we do. (Charles Ryrie, professor and author) The saying “What you do speaks so loud, I can’t hear what you say” suggests that actions speak louder than words. As Ryrie says, it’s a...
If you want to stand out, you must prepare to stand alone. (Author unknown) It’s not wrong to want to be a leader, but today’s quote offers some good advice. Often there will be opposition, differing opinions, questionable counsel. As someone else has said, “You...
Like a good meal, life is meant to be savored, not just consumed. Be present. (Kary Oberbrunner, motivational speaker and author) Often we are in such a rush that we eat fast food and hardly take time to enjoy the tasty flavors. Oberbrunner takes such behavior to...
Look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see, and wonder at what makes the universe exist. Be curious. (Stephen Hawking, late theoretical physicist) Hawking claimed to be an atheist, yet his suggestion sounds a bit like a person of...
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow. (Woodrow Wilson, 28th president of the United States) Although some people seem to know it all, most of us are well aware that there is a lot we don’t know and a lot that would be helpful to know....
Social change always comes when the next generation decides to no longer accept what the last generation accepted. (Mike McCaman, consultant) While McCamen’s observation is obviously true, its results can be either good or not so good. When we disregard traditions...
Get a life in which you are not alone. Find people you love, and who love you. And remember that love is not leisure, it is work.” (Anna Quindlen, author and columnist) Some people seem to be lonely even when they’re in a crowd of people, whether it’s at work or...
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always be where you’ve always been. (James Emery White, pastor and author) White concludes, “For most of us, that’s not good.” His suggested solution: “Constantly innovate. Try new things.” Whether it’s personal habit,...
Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th U.S. president) What Eisenhower said about American would be true of any nation and its people. The bigger question, however, is “What is...
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 19th century essayist) Emerson’s sentiment might be summed up in the popular expression, “Stop and smell the roses.” Apparently, even in his day people were so busy with the activities of...
Good health and good sense are two of life’s greatest blessings. (Publlius Syrus, 1st century B.C. Latin writer) Benjamin Franklin said that taxes and death are the two certainties of life. Syrus, on the other hand, suggests two great blessing of life. When you’re...