God and Nations

Sometimes a nation abolishes God, but fortunately, God is more tolerant.

Taking an Angle

Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely at an angle.

Andre Gide

Justice and Mercy

Since we have been the recipients of maximum mercy, who are we to suddenly demand justice from others? Charles Swindoll

Simple

Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. Steve Jobs

The Secret

The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Acting like a Grown up

Rising above the fray is a grown up thing to do.

The Ingredients of Progress

Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.
Thomas A. Edison

Resistance

Remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. Henry Ford

Honorable Failure

Rather fail with honor than success by fraud.

Solphocles

The Quest

The quest for truth, at least the truth about the most important things, cannot be divorced from the quest to become the kind of person we need to become.

C. Stephen Evans

Frowning on Fun

A Puritan is someone who is deathly afraid that someone, somewhere, is having fun.

Talk about What you Care About

The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about. CS Lewis

Generous Words

Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

Dale Carnegie