Self-Control I think chocolate makes my clothes shrink! (Coffee mug adage) This is an example of a humorous attempt to avoid facing reality. We know that if we really want our “shrinking clothes” to fit, we need to do something about diet and...
Your Mind What goes into a mind comes out in a life. (Greg Groeschel, motivational speaker) What do they say in the computer world? GIGO: garbage in, garbage out. If bad data is entered, bad data will come out. In Mark 7:20 Jesus similarly...
Prayer Lord, help me slow down andnotrushthroughwhatido. (Humorous prayer) Sometimes we can be very contradictory people. As in another silly prayer, “Lord help me be less independent, but let me do it my way.” We pray for patience, but we want...
Happiness Sometimes life knocks you on your [bottom]… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them. (Steve Maraboli, behavioral scientist) Do we really need a scientist to give...
Worry Worry, by nature, is the product of a lack of faith and trust in God. (John MacArthur, pastor, author) Jesus said, “Can all your worries add a single moment to your life? And if worry can’t accomplish a little thing like that, what’s the...
Mysteries Mystery is not the absence of meaning; it is the presence of more meaning than we can fully comprehend. (Dennis Covington, American author) We seem to love mysteries. Whodunit movies, TV shows, and books are very popular across...
In the Storm We are all in this together… we are all in the same boat. (Amanda Miles, young author) How often have you heard something like that about our recent sequestration? But Amanda sees it differently: “Although we may all be in the...
Reason We must start by teaching our kids not what to think but how to think. (John Stonestreet, Worldview author & speaker) Stonestreet continues, “In the information age, accumulated facts and information are confused with expertise or...
Zeal Sometimes success is due less to ability than to zeal. (Charles Buxton, 19th century English writer) Sometimes we are surprised when a great achievement is discovered, and we learn that the person responsible did not have the apparent skills...
Do Your Best If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly. (G. K. Chesterton, 19th-20th century English writer). Students are often challenged to do their best, to always strive for excellence, so, Chesterton’s statement seems so...
Keep Trying For us there is only the trying. The rest is none of our business. (T. S. Eliot, 20th century essayist) How do you respond when you try to do something, and it doesn’t work? Do you give up, thinking it’s no use to keep trying?...
Know Yourself The person I look up to most is the person who isn’t defined by what others think. (Author unknown) In a self-centered world like ours, many people find their identity and worth in what other people think about them. They make their...
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