God’s Quarter
Several years ago a mother gave her son two quarters. One was for his Sunday School offering. The other was for an ice cream cone on the way home from Sunday School. One Sunday, Billy was flipping a quarter in … Continue reading →
Tag Archives: Choices and Decisions
What is Courage?
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
Continue reading →The Wonderful Weirdness of You
“Don’t settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God created you to be.” – Craig Groeschel
Continue reading →Expect Temptation
“Expect temptation to your last breath.” – Anthony the Great
Continue reading →Be Careful with Do-Goodism
“You’ve got to be careful with do-goodism, you know. The do-gooders do more harm than a little. If you’re not careful, the do-gooders will do you in. Any help that doesn’t help a person to help himself is criminal because … Continue reading →
Get Up and Do Something
Dr. Karl Menninger, the famous psychiatrist, once gave a lecture on mental health, and then answered questions from the audience. “What would you advise a person to do,” asked one man, “if that person felt a nervous breakdown coming on?” … Continue reading →
Sacrificing Health
”The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.” – Arthur Schopenhauer
Continue reading →Just Report for Duty
“Father to son, after family prayers: ‘Son, don’t give God orders. Just report for duty.’”
Continue reading →Look At What You Have
“If you look at what you have in life, you’ll always have more. If you look at what you don’t have in life, you’ll never have enough.” – Oprah Winfrey
Continue reading →Interrupted by God
“We must be ready to allow ourselves to be interrupted by God.” – Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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