Voltaire stated: "If a miracle occurred in the market place of Paris and in the presence of 2,000 men, I would rather disbelieve my own eyes and the 2,000." The point is that facts alone will never br...
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...
Have you seen any of these words of wisdom from bumper stickers? "He who laughs last thinks slowest", "Hard work has a future payoff. Laziness pays off now", "All generalizations are... ...
Bob got home from work at his usual hour of 5 p.m., only to discover that it had not been one of his wife's better days....
Kant wrote his famous philosophical work at the age of seventy-four. Verdi wrote Ave Maria at the age of eighty-five. At the age of eighty Tennyson wrote Crossing The Bar, Goethe finished Faust, and M...
It is easy to misunderstand the counsel we receive from others, isn't it? Charlie Stink was constantly being advised by his friends and co-workers that he should have his name changed. Finally he agre...
A mother looked out a window and saw Johnny playing church with their three kittens. He had them lined up and was preaching to them. The mother turned around to do some work, but soon she heard meowin...
In the book, Salt, the author describes a fictional character (though based on fact) who left the southern Appalachians to live and work in Kansas....
It has been said that the green sea slug survives by eating only once in its entire life. That doesn't seem to work for any other creatures, especially humans. It wouldn't be much fun either. We need ...
Did you hear about the professor who was so absent-minded that when he fell down the stairs, he got up and said, "Wonder what all that noise was about?" All Christians need to work on their memories. ...
It is said that when the great Italian artist Raphael was painting one of his frescoes in the Vatican, two church cardinals were watching and criticizing his work. One said that the face of the apostl...
"Only those who love the Church," Wallace M. Alston, Jr. of Princeton, NJ's Nassau Presbyterian Church observed, "and believe in that for which it stands can be expected to support it with their stewa...
A police dog responds to an ad for work with the FBI."Well," says the personnel director, "You'll have to meet some strict requirements. First, you must type at least 60 words per minute."Sitting down...
A minister was making a wooden trellis to support a climbing vine. As he was pounding away, he noticed that a little boy was watching him. The youngster didn't say a word, so the preacher kept on work...
Let Go As children bring their broken toys With tears for us to mend, I brought my broken dreams to God, Because He was my friend. But then, instead of leaving Him In peace, to work alone, I hung arou...
Under Construction Most of us have experienced what happens to motorists when one of those huge graders goes to work on a highway repair job. When the machine is operating on a busy road, traffic is h...
A teacher asked her group of 1st graders to draw something on their papers - whatever they wished. The teacher came around and saw little Frankie and he was busy at work. She said, "What are you...
A well-respected surgeon was relaxing on his sofa one evening just after arriving home from work. As he was tuning into the evening news, the phone rang. The doctor calmly answered it and heard the fa...
The church loses its effectiveness without the ability to send forth the work it is intended to be doing....
A man applied for a job as a handyman. The prospective employer asked, "Can you do carpentry?" The man answered in the negative. "How about bricklaying?" Again the man answered, "No." The employer ask...