STOP AND THINK - Nobody can hurt me without my permission. (Mahatma Gandhi) We’ve all known a few people who seem to have their feelings hurt very easily. The slightest misunderstanding will offend them. It may be difficult to manage, but in reality, we can be hurt by...
STOP AND THINK - Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. (H. L. Mencken, 20th century American journalist) God has created us with minds that can accumulate knowledge but also can soar with imagination and creativity. We have more than just brains; we...
STOP AND THINK - The two engines that drive communication [are] having something to say and being able to say it in sentences that aren’t half dead. (Thomas Merton, 20th century Anglo-American social activist and poet) When someone is talking on and on without getting...
STOP AND THINK - A nation’s greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members. (Mahatma Gandhi, 20th century nationalist in India) History has demonstrated that nations that mistreat or ignore the weak will eventually collapse, On the other hand, nations that...
STOP AND THINK - Create as much Heaven on Earth as possible with everyone near and dear. (Inspiration Line) Chelle Thompson, editor of Inspiration Line, wrote: “My grandma was always ‘biding her time’ until she could get to Heaven. In the meantime, her life was fairly...
STOP AND THINK - We will bankrupt ourselves in the vain search for absolute security. (Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States) What makes you feel secure? In what are you putting your hope? A retirement fund? Savings accounts? Possessions?...
STOP AND THINK - Nothing is useful which is not honest. (Benjamin Franklin, a founding father of the United States) The proverb, “Honesty is the best policy,” has lost some of its luster in a world where dishonesty seems to pay off too often. The gains of dishonest...
STOP AND THINK - Nobody can hurt me without my permission. (Mahatma Gandhi) We’ve all known a few people who seem to have their feelings hurt very easily. The slightest misunderstanding will offend them. It may be difficult to manage, but in reality, we can be hurt by...
STOP AND THINK - Prosperity is a way of living and thinking, and not just having money or things. (Chinese fortune cookie) We really didn’t need a fortune cookie to tell us that—or, did we? In modern American, it seems that prosperity, indeed, may simply mean more and...
STOP AND THINK - God Himself doesn’t propose to judge a man until he is dead. So why should you? (Popular one-liner) The Bible does say there will be a judgment after death, but does that mean there should not be any judging during one’s lifetime? It’s true that we...
STOP AND THINK - One can acquire everything in solitude—except character. (Henri Stendahl, 19th century French writer) Stendhal (pen name for Marie- Henri Beyle) raises an interesting concept. We can develop certain abilities and skills by ourselves, perhaps, but how...
STOP AND THINK - When we have enough clarity to turn "Life’s Lemons" into sweet lemonade, we realize what a gift those lemons were! (Inspiration Line) When life’s trials hit us, it’s easy to consider them as “lemons,” the distasteful, sour events that are so hard to...