STOP AND THINK - No matter how long we’ve traveled on the wrong road, we can always turn around. (Gil Scott-Heron, musician and author) Sometimes we become so bogged down in a rut that we fail to realize we’re following a path to nowhere. Somewhere we got on the wrong...
STOP AND THINK - Progress depends on human choices and human courage. (Michael J. Gerson, speech-writer and author) A lot of events and people must be involved in creating the future. It’s not happenstance, and it isn’t fate. As Gerson says, human involvement is...
STOP AND THINK - Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you . . . you will be neither successful nor happy. (Napoleon Hill, American author of the New Thought movement) Hill adds that you will not be happy, “… until you have...
STOP AND THINK - When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless. (Chris Colfer, actor, singer, and author) You have probably run into someone who...
STOP AND THINK - Never judge reality by your own limited experiences. (Robert Schuller, televangelist and author) People are inclined to think that their personal experiences represent the totality of reality. How they respond to a given situation is how they think...
STOP AND THINK - Be someone for somebody. (Mother Teresa) No one wants to live in isolation. Though some are less gregarious than others, still they profit from some relationships even if they are few and infrequent. But, for those who are isolated because of disease,...
Embrace the harshest conditions and see what beauty might unfold as a result of them.
STOP AND THINK - If you are not using what you already have, you won’t use what you think you need. (Ken Duncan, Australian professional photographer) We are often tempted to say, “If I only had (fill in the blank), I could do ….” But the question, as Duncan points...
STOP AND THINK - Life is a series of choices between the bad, the good, and the best. Everything depends on how we choose. (Vance Havner, 20th century evangelist) Many people don’t have a lot of trouble resisting what is bad for them, whether it’s a matter of diet,...
Temptations are everywhere. It’s your job to avoid them. (2 Minutes a day. 100 Devotionals) It’s obvious, isn’t it? We are constantly faced, either directly or by innuendo, with opportunities to do wrong, to give in to baser emotions. Even magazine ads and TV...
STOP AND THINK - Men are often thoughtless: “[They] will not reflect on the end of their present course, and the sure consequences of their present days.” (J. C Ryle, 19th century Anglican bishop) Speaking to young men, Ryle continued, “[They] wake up to find they are...
STOP AND THINK - Love is very much a matter of actions rather than emotions. (Jerry Bridges, Christian author) In a world flooded with songs, movies, and stories of love, it’s really hard to understand what genuine love is. Many times it is identified with lust or...