STOP AND THINK The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can DO wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot. (Mark Twain) Samuel Clemens (his real name) rightly observed...
STOP AND THINK The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor. (Vince Lombardi, football coach) Coach Lombardi’s success proved the validity of this statement. His...
STOP AND THINK Man is always inclined to be intolerant towards the thing, or person, he hasn't taken the time adequately to understand. (Robert R. Brown) If we haven’t seen or heard about something before, we’re likely to disbelieve or discount its...
STOP AND THINK If I could look at myself from God’s perspective, what would I see as my true needs? (Oswald Chambers) We sometimes speak of peoples’ “felt needs,” the personal requirements that one senses he or she must have. The question might...
STOP AND THINK Forgive others, not because they deserve forgiveness, but because you deserve peace. (Jonathan Lockwood Huie, author) Forgiving someone who has offended or hurt you is necessary but it is not easy. It’s human nature to be defensive and protective,...
STOP AND THINK What someone is begins to be revealed when his talent abates, when he stops showing us what he can do. (Friedrich Nietzsche, 19th century German philosopher and poet) We most often judge someone by what he or she does and can do. It’s their...
STOP AND THINK They dread the idea of going against the current of the times. In a word, the opinion of the day becomes their religion, their creed, their Bible, and their God. (From J. C Ryle: Dangers For Young Men) Ryle was writing about a fear of others’...
STOP AND THINK Beware of fretting, murmuring, complaining, and giving way to an impatient spirit. The lessons that we learn on a sick-bed, when we are shut out from the world, are often lessons which we should never learn elsewhere. (Author unknown) These statements...
STOP AND THINK Now there are more overweight people in America than average-weight people. So overweight people are now average. Which means you've met your New Year's resolution. (Jay Leno, American humorist) Well, that’s one way to look at it. But...
STOP AND THINK We have opened the book of 2013; it’s called Opportunity. The first chapter was yesterday, New Year’s Day. The year’s pages are blank. We are going to put words on each page ourselves. (Paraphrased from Edith Lovejoy Pierce, poet,...
STOP AND THINK New Year's Day is every man's birthday. (Charles Lamb, English essayist, 1775-1834) On our birthdays we look back at the past, grateful for what has been achieved, but eager for the next year. So it is with the beginning of each new year:...
STOP AND THINK New Year's Eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe . . . and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights. (Hamilton Wright Mabie, American essayist,...