June 13, 2008

On the Economy of Education

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Derek BokIf you think that education is expensive, try ignorance....


May 23, 2008

On Values

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Roy DisneyIt's not hard to make decisions when you know what your values are....


May 20, 2008

Best Advice?

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Fortune Magazine shares the best advice ever given to leaders of finance, entertainment, technology, and military. There are many good and some not-so-good nuggets of counsel in the collection. Here's a couple gems: "Always assume positive intent." - Indra Nooyi...


May 8, 2008

On Carrying Burdens

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Lena HorneIt's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it....


May 4, 2008

On Leading & Loneliness

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John MaxwellIf you're leading others and you're lonely, you're not doing it right. Think about it. If you're all alone, that means nobody is following you. And if nobody is following you, you're not really leading....


April 14, 2008

On Identity

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Earl NightingaleA man is what he thinks about all day long....


March 25, 2008

On Effort

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Wayne HuizengaNo one ever drowned in their own sweat....

On Fault

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Henry FordDon't find fault, find a remedy....


January 23, 2008

On Change Catalysts

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Rosabeth Moss CanterWe change when it hurts too much not to change....


January 21, 2008

On Loyalty

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Karl MenningerLoyalty means not that I agree with everything you say, or that I believe you are always right. Loyalty means that I share a common ideal with you and that, regardless of minor differences, we strive for it, shoulder...

On Regret

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Mark TwainTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in...


November 17, 2007

Leaving a Legacy by John Weber

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John wrote this on August 16, 2007. On November 1, 2007, He returned to the Lord who created and redeemed him. John Weber Here's the challenge for ALL MEN... For each husband, every father. Leave behind something that will be...


November 12, 2007

On Optimism, Pessism, & Realism

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William Arthur WardThe pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails....

On Exhorting

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Bob MoawadBy choosing to believe and expect the best about people, you are able to bring out the best in them....


November 7, 2007

On Wisdom

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AristophanesWise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same life....

On Faithfulness

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John WeberDon't strive to be spectacular. Just strive to be faithful....


November 6, 2007

On Vision

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The classic, just for the sake of being archived... Bill HybelsVision is the painting of a picture that brings passion in people....

On Temptation

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Martin LutherTemptations, of course, cannot be avoided, but because we cannot prevent the birds from flying over our heads, there is no need that we should let them nest in our hair....


October 24, 2007

On Optimism

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Steve BallmerNothing good happens without optimism....


October 21, 2007

Responsibility & Consequence

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E.C. McKenzieIt is easy to dodge our responsibility be we cannot dodge the consequences of dodging our responsibilities....

More, on Vision

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From a Church in Sussex, England C. 1730A vision without a task is but a dream; a task without a vision is drudgery: a vision and a task is the hope of the world....


October 18, 2007

On Preparing to Win

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Paul "Bear" BryantShow class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself....

Vision Check

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Two recent quotes came my way regarding vision... Gordon Quick, founder, CEO Mentors"Creating a clear and compelling vision statement is not a simple matter." and Bill HybelsNothing matters more than the ownership of a vision. I spent extended time in...


October 11, 2007

On Action

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Henri BergsonThink like a man of action, act like a man of thought....

On Circumstance

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Christian BoveeIt is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence over us. The same wind that carries one vessel into port may blow another off shore....


October 10, 2007

In Business, and in Faith

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Lynette Chiang, Customer Evangelist, Bike Friday"Difficult people who become believers end up your biggest evangelists."...

On Doing Good

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John WesleyDo all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as...


October 6, 2007

On Religion

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I've been talking with a high school friend about the difference between religion and relationship. I saw this quote, which speaks to the issue: Oscar Wilde Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief....


September 29, 2007

On Perseverance

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Samuel JohnsonThe business of life is to go forward....

On Excellence

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Sam WychePeople will let you wander around in mediocrity all you want. But at the top of the hill, enemies await....


August 15, 2007

Perseverance Defined

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David AllenFocus on positive outcomes and continually take the next action on the most important thing....


August 10, 2007

Baby Steps

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Mark TwainThe secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks and then starting on the first one....


August 3, 2007

On Mediocrity

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Seth GodinOnly talented people fret about mediocrity....


August 2, 2007

Hi! Anxiety?

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David Kekich Anxiety is caused by a lack of control, organization, preparation and action....


July 22, 2007

Reflective Theology

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Max Lucado "We treat others as we perceive God is treating us."...


March 24, 2007

Moo-ving Messages

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Rick Warren"A lot of preaching today is what I call longhorn preaching, as in the longhorn cattle found in Texas. This style of preaching has a point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between!" Fortunately, our...


March 8, 2007

Proverbs #183

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No soul can be bathed in the fellowship of divine communion and then descend to earth to play the bore and the bully....

Proverbs #182

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If you want to keep your friends, do not give them away....


August 28, 2006

On Teaching

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Albert EinsteinIt is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge....

On Understanding

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Elbert HubbardHe who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words....

On Learning

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UnknownWho is too old to learn is too old to teach....


August 14, 2006

On Servant Leadership

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Mwai Kibaki“Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others."...


July 12, 2006

On Fulfilling Vision

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John MaxwellA great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position....

On the Search for Good

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Joseph JoubertWhen you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees....


July 8, 2006

On Growth

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John MaxwellIf we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone....

On Opinions

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John LockeNew opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common....

On Communication

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George Bernard ShawThe single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place....


July 3, 2006

Feelings/Actions

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Taken from a movie preview...Your feelings don't mean anything to anyone except yourself. It's how you treat the ones you love that matters the most....


March 8, 2006

QOTM: on prayer

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Mike MoweryNever underestimate the power of softly pleading to Jesus for others....


March 4, 2006

QOTM: 4, on love

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Quote of the Moment:"If Jesus loved the way we love, he would have lived to a ripe old age."...


February 27, 2006

Another way to Look at Life

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From the inbox:Good health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die....


January 5, 2006

QOTM: 3, on trust and direction

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I saw these while doing some Web searching for a writing assignment. I can't tell you if the attribution is correct, but whaddayagonnado? Mother TheresaI know God won't give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust...


August 9, 2005

Proverbs #181

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When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to look like a nail....


May 4, 2005

Proverbs #180

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Be more concerned with making a life than making a living....

Proverbs #179

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Reputation is your photograph. Character is your face....

Proverbs #178

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Have your tools ready and God will find you work....


November 9, 2004

Proverbs #177

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True faith is the real hero of honest intellect....

Proverbs #176

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Pride hides a man's faults to himself and magnifies them to everyone else....

Proverbs #175

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Trial is the school of trust....


August 11, 2004

Proverbs #174

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Character is how you are known by God, regardless of the reputation by which you are known by men....

Proverbs #173

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Praise is a debt we owe unto the virtues of others....

Proverbs #172

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You are a success if you are where God has assigned you service....


July 12, 2004

QOTM: 2, on choices

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Max LernerWhen you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil....

QOTM: 1, on wisdom

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Quote of the Moment: Martin H. FischerKnowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification....


June 2, 2004

Proverbs #171

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One can see God in everything, but sees Him best with eyes shut....

Proverbs #170

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Great opportunities come to those who make the most of small ones....


April 28, 2004

Proverbs #169

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The threads of habit are so small that one does not realize how strong they may become when woven into chains....

Proverbs #168

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Long range goals are the best remedy to short-term frustrations....


March 31, 2004

Proverbs #167

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If you want to see how important you are in the world, stick your finger in a pan of water and see the hole that is left....

Proverbs #166

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The key that unlocks heaven doesn't fit every church door....

Proverbs #165

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Faith is a higher faculty than reason....


March 15, 2004

Proverbs #164

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The person who never makes a mistake never makes anything....

Proverbs #163

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The wonder is not that the great God would do such great things, but that He would stoop so low and do such little things as well....

Proverbs #162

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If others speak ill of you, live in such a way that nobody can place belief in them....


February 19, 2004

proverbs #159

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There is no worse error than to seek an intellectual remedy for a moral grief....

proverbs #158

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Throw mud and you will have dirty hands, regardless whether you hit your mark....

proverbs #157

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Faith is the soul's intake. Love is the soul's outlet....


February 4, 2004

proverbs #156

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If God wants you on the mission field, neither your money nor your prayers will ever prove an acceptable substitute....

proverbs #155

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There is no "home" and "foreign" distinction in God's missionary vocabulary....

proverbs #154

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He who holds a false doctrine, holds it first in his own thinking and then seeks it in the Bible as a second source....


January 13, 2004

proverbs #153

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Some people will make a cloak out of a very small scrap of religion....

proverbs #152

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When a lawyer dies, he lies still....

proverbs #151

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Those who know God will be humble. Those who know themselves cannot be proud....


December 10, 2003

proverbs #150

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Shallow minds, like shallow waters, are easily ruffled....

proverbs #149

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You haven't begun to give until you feel glad over it....

proverbs #148

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When one sells principle for popularity, he is soon bankrupt....


November 21, 2003

proverbs #147

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It is far easier to build a temple than to be one....

proverbs #146

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Some men are known by their deeds, while others are known by their mortgages....


November 20, 2003

proverbs #145

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A good memory is required to accompany a lying tongue....

proverbs #144

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The present moment is divinely set. The present responsibility is the Master's will....


November 12, 2003

proverbs #143

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God doesn't ask for preachers for the harvest -- but for laborers....


November 6, 2003

proverbs #142

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Some people devote all their religion to going to church....

proverbs #141

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Tact is merely the art of saying nothing when there is nothing to say....


October 3, 2003

proverbs #140

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meekness is not weakness but strength harnessed for service....

proverbs #139

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beat not out thy brains to fathom the unrevealed....

proverbs #138

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there can be no peace where pride reigns....


September 29, 2003

proverbs #137

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there is nothing too small worth to do well....

proverbs #136

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to not diffuse the Christ is to misuse the Christ....

proverbs #135

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be careful what you say, for you speak for all eternity....


September 18, 2003

proverbs #134

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God will accept a broken heart, but he must have all the pieces....

proverbs #133

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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint kneebound in prayer....

proverbs #132

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if you're doing no good that will live after you, you are not ready to die....


August 29, 2003

proverbs #131

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when approaching an intersection of temptation, turn to the right....

proverbs #130

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lie down with dogs and you'll get up with fleas....


August 28, 2003

proverbs #129

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promises may make friends; performances keep them....

proverbs #128

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tarry at a promise until God meets you there. He always returns by that road....


August 27, 2003

proverbs #127

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in speech, discretion is often more beautiful than eloquence or fluency....

proverbs #126

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the mud thrower is certain to get plastered....


August 19, 2003

proverbs #125

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the best cure for a stiff neck is bent knees....


August 15, 2003

proverbs #124

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one who builds walls and not bridges lives a very lonely life....


August 14, 2003

proverbs #123

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reputation is a bubble certain to burst when one attempts self-inflation....

proverbs #122

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in the light of the ideal, we all stand condemned....


August 13, 2003

proverbs #121

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boasting of a strength is a weakness....

proverbs #120

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if you spent as much time praying as you do griping, you'll find yourself without a reason to gripe....


August 11, 2003

proverbs #119

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ability means responsibility; power to do is duty....


August 8, 2003

proverbs #118

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many a prisoner in bondage to feelings mistakenly perceives himself to be free....

proverbs #117

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freedom is not the right to do as you please, but to liberty to do as you ought....

proverbs #116

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if we would be free at the circumference, we must be safe at the center....


August 6, 2003

proverbs #114

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the devil's choloform is the denial of sin....

proverbs #115

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It is of no advantage to be near the light if one's eyes are closed....


August 5, 2003

proverbs #113

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character is like a fence: all the whitewash in the world will not strengthen it....

proverbs #112

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do not practice excessive humility....


July 29, 2003

proverbs #111

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false friendship is the ivy that decays and ruins the walls it embraces....

proverbs #110

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the millionaires of eternity are the givers of time....


July 23, 2003

proverbs #109

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a gracious word is an easy obligation....

proverbs #108

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the tree does not often fall at the first stroke....


July 17, 2003

proverbs #107

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you who belong to the Christ do so because of the missionary effort of another. Who in eternity will have said the same of you?...

proverbs #106

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the minds of many are like concrete -- thoroughly mixed and permanently set....


July 16, 2003

proverbs #105

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gossip -- the art of saying nothing that leaves nothing unsaid....

proverbs #104

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don't be content to be a reflector of the Christ; rather, be a radiator!...


July 15, 2003

proverbs #103

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one is wise who refrains from using a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought....


July 14, 2003

proverbs #102

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praise is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul....

proverbs #101

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the straight and narrow path is the only road that has no traffic problem....


July 9, 2003

proverbs #100

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the good work done by an unknown person is a vein of water flowing hidden under ground, secretly making all above it green and pleasant....

proverbs #99

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one may show his chief command of language by knowing when to remain silent....

proverbs #98

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the dog that stops to chase fleas on its tail oft loses its game dinner....


June 20, 2003

proverbs #97

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and I won't say this is for Chris, but...this one's for Chris:let every bird sing its own note.(disclaimer: the previous proverb is not meant to imply that Chris at any time supresses the unique songs eminating from any individual bird...


June 6, 2003

proverbs #96

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many a man has nothing to say and spends a lifetime saying it....

proverbs #95

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he is progressing who doubts his doubts....

proverbs #94

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let no man imagine how he can pursue a good end by evil means....

proverbs #93

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emotion is no substitute for action...

proverbs #92

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while ten men wait for something to turn up, one man turns something up...

proverbs #91

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the tribunal of conscience exists independant of edicts and decrees....

proverbs #90

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nothing that we lose by yielding is worth what we gave....


May 23, 2003

proverbs #89

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some read just enough to keep themselves misinformed....


May 22, 2003

proverbs #88

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he who delays his repentance pawns his soul with the devil....


May 21, 2003

proverbs #87

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the peace of the soul consists in absolute resignation to the will of the Christ....


May 20, 2003

proverbs #86

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beat not out thy brains to fathom the unrevealed....


May 15, 2003

proverbs #84

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knock down a hypocrite in the church and you'll upset a dozen outsiders who leaning up against him....


May 14, 2003

proverbs #83

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pretending to be rich has kept many people poor...


May 9, 2003

proverbs #82

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count on this: the wages for sin will never be lowered....


May 7, 2003

proverbs #81

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patiently waiting is occasionally the highest way of doing God's will....


May 3, 2003

proverbs #80

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thankfulness is the soil in which joy thrives....


May 2, 2003

proverbs #79

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It is easier to go down a hill than up it, but the view is from the top....


May 1, 2003

proverbs #78

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there is no use arguing with the inevitable. the only argument with the north wind is to put on your overcoat....


April 30, 2003

proverbs #77

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sin is an ill guest, for it always sets its lodging on fire....


April 28, 2003

proverbs #76

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every effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves....


April 13, 2003

proverbs #75

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one today is worth two tomorrows....

proverbs #74

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today is yesterday's pupil....

proverbs #73

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Truth has no corners....


March 28, 2003

proverbs #71

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he who blows upon dust fills his eyes with it....


March 26, 2003

proverbs #70

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a good conscience is a soft pillow....


March 20, 2003

proverbs #69

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a man of cruelty is God's enemy....

Proverbs #85

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It is an awful responsibility to own a Bible....


March 19, 2003

proverbs #68

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"one of these days" is none of these days....

proverbs #67

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hypocrisy is the homage that vice pays to virtue....


March 18, 2003

proverbs #66

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our worst enemies are the friends who have failed to find us profitable....

proverbs #65

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tall trees catch much wind....


March 17, 2003

proverbs #64

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courage consists not in hazarding without fear, but in being resolutely minded in a just cause....


March 7, 2003

proverbs #63

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pity the man with a giant brain and a tadpole backbone...


March 6, 2003

proverbs #62

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one example is worth a thousand arguments....


March 5, 2003

proverbs #61

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an idle man tempts the devil to tempt him....

proverbs #60

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God is constantly withholding from us things we think would be blessings, but which would direct attention to ourselves, instead of to Him....


March 3, 2003

proverbs #59

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silence isn't always golden. sometimes it is just plain yellow....

Proverbs #58

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He buys honey dear, who licks it from the thorns....


March 1, 2003

proverbs #57

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clipping a tiger's claws never makes him lose his taste for blood....


February 28, 2003

proverbs #56

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the way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear....


February 27, 2003

proverbs #55

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above all, learn to acquiesce in the truth as soon as it is discovered....


February 26, 2003

proverbs #54

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if we allow our worries, anxieties, careworn questionings to brood in our hearts, they will soon break up our peace as tiny gnats will make a paradise uninhabitable....


February 25, 2003

proverbs #53

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