STOP AND THINK - Only one decision pleases God: obedience. (Charles Swindoll, pastor and author) In the universal struggle of mankind to know and please God, men have developed many different images of God and established the “rules” they think they must follow to...
STOP AND THINK - A girl’s true beauty is the reflection of her inner happiness. (Anonymous) Physical beauty is paramount in the minds of many young men and women, so this comment is a helpful reminder of what is really most important in life. One’s outward appearance,...
STOP AND THINK - Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you. (James Freeman Clarke, 19th century American theologian and author) The U.S. Declaration of Independence suggests that among our rights is “the pursuit of happiness.” Sounds like...
STOP AND THINK - I am . . . convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing and which . . . misses happiness as well. (Mary Cholmondeley, 19th-20th century English novelist)...
STOP AND THINK - Happiness is quite simply good health and a bad memory. (Earnest Hemingway, 20th century American author and journalist) We could probably agree that health and happiness often go together. Poor physical health can affect our emotional health, so we...
STOP AND THINK - Happiness is not the pursuit of thrills or gratification of sensual desires. It is, instead, the pursuit of virtue. (Chuck Colson, former presidential advisor, cultural commentator, and prison reformer) People seem to be motivated more by their...
STOP AND THINK - The strength and happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going that way too. (Henry Ward Beecher, 19th century American clergyman and reformer) Apparently, there is a spiritual aspect to happiness. According to...
STOP AND THINK - Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. (Storm Jameson, 20th century English journalist) Someone, indeed, may find happiness in any one of Jameson’s elements. However, many have...
STOP AND THINK - You will find as you look back upon your life that the moments when you have really lived are the moments when you have done things in a spirit of love. (Henry Drummond, 19th century Scottish evangelist) The love Drummond spoke about is probably not...
STOP AND THINK - The farther you go...the harder it is to return. The world has many edges and it's easy to fall off. (Anderson Cooper, American journalist and TV personality) I’m not sure what Cooper may have had in mind when he made this statement, but it’s an axiom...
STOP AND THINK - To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is swear off having ideas. (Leo Burnett, 20th century advertising executive) Mistakes, unfortunately, are a part of life. No one lives without them. Thomas Edison, the famous inventor, said...
STOP AND THINK - Almost all unhappiness in life comes from the tendency to blame someone else. (Brian Tracey, motivational speaker and author) It started way back in the beginning. Adam’s excuse to God for his sin was, “The woman … she gave me …” And Eve said, “The...