Bible commentator Matthew Henry, after being robbed, wrote this in his diary: Let me be thankful - first because I was never robbed before. Second, because although they took my wallet they did not ta...
Ann Landers wrote about a person she knew who said the greatest gift he ever received in his life was a note his dad gave him on Christmas. ...
Dorothy Parker once wrote of the dancer Isadora Duncan, “There was never a place for her in the terrible slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths.” What a wonderful tribute ...
Two writers who were bitter rivals were both attending the same party. One had recently had a book published, and the other commented to him, “I read your new book, and liked it. Who wrote it for you?...
Years ago when the Salvation Army celebrated its 100th anniversary, their journal, The War Cry, wrote of the founding of the organization and its founder, General William Booth. This significant sente...
Dick Bass and Frank Wells became the first persons to climb the tallest mountain on each continent. They wrote a book about their adventures called "Seven Summits." Now Bass has written another book c...
When George Whitefield, the eighteenth century British evangelist, first sailed to America, he wrote in his journal that the ship's cook had a drinking problem. When he was reproved about his sins, th...
Malcolm Muggeridge wrote about Mother Teresa after he had seen her work in Calcutta: “The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted, uncare...
Years ago, Bob Dylan wrote a great truth in one of his songs. He said: “You may be an ambassador to England of France; You may like to gamble, you might like to dance; You may be the heavy-wei...
Carl Henry wrote in Twilight of a Great Civilization: "We may even now live in the half generation before all hell breaks loose, and if its fury is contained we will be remembered, if we are remembere...
David Jeremiah wrote: "It would be nice to be told, when we leave on a long car trip, something like this: 'I want you to know that you are going to reach your destination safely and on schedule. Rega...
In the Old Testament we often find the Israelites "murmuring." What a wonderful expression. In the church we often find people murmuring, too. The only thing some people are willing to give is advice....
ohn Fawcett was the beloved minister of a small, rural church. He was called to a larger church in the city, but at the last moment he changed his mind....
Dr. E. Stanley Jones, the famous missionary, wrote a charming and delightful autobiography called A Song of Ascents. He tells about a layman, a newspaper-man, a mutual fried, who was called upon to co...
Hans Christian Andersen wrote of a mirror that made every good and pretty thing look bad. Don’t many of us have just such a distorted view of life? Good looks bad; and bad looks good. We must ...
An evangelist wrote about a wise physician who told a young doctor, "I've been practicing medicine for a long time. I've prescribed many things. But in the long run, I've learned that the best medicin...
Bruce Thielemann once wrote, “The pulpit calls those anointed to it like the sea calls its sailor; and like the sea, it batters and bruises, and does not rest...To preach, to really preach, is to die ...
Leo Cummins once wrote up a list of "Murphy's Laws" for ministers. They include the following: 1) The amount of flack received on any one subject is inversely proportionate to that subject's real valu...
Mignon McLaughlin wrote, "One of life's few really reliable pleasures is to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week." That fits with what one grandfather said about his grandchildren: "I ...
William Satchell wrote a novel about early migrant workers going through the forests of New Zealand's Northland province. They followed after the timber cutters looking for the gum from stumps and bra...