When we share our faith with our friends and acquaintances, our hope is that they will listen with open minds and accept the call of the gospel. If we could read the minds of our listeners, we might be surprised to discover what they are thinking, “I don’t care how much you know until I know how…
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“Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.” It was Elihu who observed, “Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment”. There are some who have had twenty years’ experience, and there are others who have had one year�…
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There is an old saying that says, “Trifles make perfection but perfection is no trifle”.
When we contemplate this for a moment, we perceive its truth. In great works of art, it is that added touch that makes the ordinary painting a masterpiece. In athletics, a runner may win every race by a f…
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One of the most beautiful chapters in our Bible is Paul’s love chapter (1 Corinthians 13). Drummond in his book, “The Greatest Thing in the World” analyzes it and finds that love is made up of nine ingredients which Paul deals with one at a time. These ingredients when properly mixed together …
It has been said that the thought is the father of the deed. This is so. No one ever robbed a bank without first thinking, “I’m going to rob a bank.” Every act, every crime, every good deed is first a thought and then a fact.
It may sound over simplified but all we have to do in order to do…
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There is an old saying that says, “Trifles make perfection but perfection is no trifle”.
When we contemplate this for a moment, we perceive its truth. In great works of art, it is that added touch that makes the ordinary painting a masterpiece. In athletics, a runner may win every race by a f…
Today we saw a copy of the Los Angeles Times of Sunday, December 17. 1905. That paper is almost 64[1] years old. In it were ads for ladies dresses for $2.00 each and men’s suits for $16.00. In the society section there was news of coming events while the obituary column listed those who had just d…
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In the south there is an old man with a row boat who ferries passengers across a mile wide river for ten cents. Asked “How many times a day do you do this?” he said, “As many times as I can because the more I go the more I get, and if 1 don’t go, I don’t get.” This old man knows well a l…
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I fall else fails, try reading the directions.” How many times have we heard this advice after endless attempts to put together a child’s toy that comes ‘knock-down’. We think, “there’s nothing to this”, until we try to piece together the many strange-looking pieces and find to our dis…
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Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.” This quotation is taken from a plaque said to have been posted over the desk of General Douglas MacArthur. Someone else has sai…
