Someone once said, “I can resist everything in the world except temptation”.
Why do we give in to temptations when we know it is a mistake? The reason temptations are so difficult to resist is that they are part of our nature and they come from inside us. James says that, “Everyone is tempt…
Your attitude, more than your aptitude will determine your altitude. This short pithy saying means that you attitude is more important than how talented you are when it comes to being able to fly high, that is, be successful, in whatever you are doing. Sport teams look for more than raw ability when…
The water pump in our little travel trailer sometimes loses its prime. When this happens, the motor will run but there is still no water. To get water again it is necessary to prime the pump. Once primed, the water flows freely again.
We may be like the water pump; we too, can lose our prime. …
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John Glenn has said that there is no cure for the common birthday. As the days pass, we inexorably age, wrinkles appear, body parts wear out, and the birthdays continue to arrive until we die. Someone once noticed that after age 30 the body seems to have a mind of its own; instead of the quick deft …
“If you aren’t fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm,” Vince Lombardi once said. Vince Lombardi was a famous football coach who was passionate about his game and demanded that his players share his zeal and enthusiasm. Any player who didn’t play his heart out for the team …
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Are we green and growing or ripe and rotting? This question was a favourite of Ray Kroc, the founder of the McDonalds hamburger chain, who said, “As long as you’re green, you’re growing. As soon as you’re ripe, you start to rot”.
The need for a successful business to keep growing also a…
An ageing, once beautiful movie actress decided that she wanted a series of portraits taken by the same photographer who had shot some wonderful pictures of her some 30 years earlier. After a considerable search, he was located and commissioned to take the pictures. When he delivered the proofs to…
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G.Bruno said, “Truth does not change because it is not believed by a majority of people.” To this William Penn would agree, for he said, “Right is right, even if everyone is against it”. Prior to Columbus discovering America, people believed that the earth was flat. Thinking so did not …
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The Los Angeles County Library recently added the two millionth book to its collection. This is graphic evidence of the truth of Solomon’s remark that “of making many books there is no end.”
Solomon continued his observations by saying that “much study is a weariness of the flesh….
Solomon made a startling statement that will surprise a great many people who do not regularly read their Bible. He tells us ‘Don’t bother to pray if you don’t have time to read the Bible’. This is admittedly a very loose translation. His exact words were, “One who turns away his ear from …
