Regard your sickness as a blessing in disguise - a good and not an evil - a friend and not an enemy. (Author Unknown) That’s not easy to do, is it? When we’re sick, weak, and hurting, it’s hard to think positively about our...
God is more interested in our attitudes than our actions. (Mike Lee, pastor) We often say that actions speak louder than words, and that’s very true. We can tell what a person is thinking by what he does more than just by what casino online he says. In the...
Because faith makes invisible things real and visible things unreal, earthly dissatisfaction becomes the road to heavenly satisfaction. (Joni Eareckson Tada, evangelical author and founder of a compassion ministry) It’s a paradox that people of...
I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. (Helen Keller) Many people dream of doing something really great, hoping perhaps for world recognition, to make a fortune, maybe even...
Tell me and I’ll forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I’ll understand! (Chinese proverb) Sounds like a principle right out of a teacher’s manual, doesn’t it? We need instruction and example, but we learn best by doing. And if...
Do not be daunted by the enormity of the world’s grief. Do justly, now. Love mercy, now. Walk humbly, now. You are not obligated to complete the work, but neither are you free to abandon it. (Attributed to the Talmud, Jewish rabbinic writings) When we look at...
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. (Galileo Galilei) Life is little more than a journey of discovery. As someone has said, “When we stop learning, we’re dead.” We should be constantly learning,...
Time, whose tooth gnaws away at everything else, is powerless against truth. (Thomas Henry Huxley, 19th century English biologist) What an amazing statement from a scientist! It seems as though science is always telling us about the changes that time brings,...
Real change and emotional growth come by facing our weaknesses and personality defects as others see us. (Ted W. Engstrom, late compassion ministry leader) Engstrom also said, “Backslappers help us feel better about ourselves, but we don’t actually profit...
What we do is not as important as who we do it for. (Tom Julien, missionary and author) Another popular adage: What we do is not as important as what we are. Both are clearly exposed by what we do. Julien’s important emphasis points to the question of...
Be sure no time is so well spent as that which a man spends on his knees. (J.C. Ryle, 19th century Anglican bishop) Unlike faithful Muslims who recite memorized lines several times a day, some Christians pray only before meals and at bedtime, often...
A leader is a man who knows the road, who can keep ahead, and who can pull others after him. (John Mott, YMCA leader and 1946 Nobel Peace Prize winner) Some people aspire to be leaders, but don’t seem to realize that you’re not a leader if no one is...