To Quote
April 1, 1996
CONVICTION
If you don't make up your mind, your unmade mind will unmake you.
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
It ain't so much what folks don't know,
It's that they know so much that just ain't so.
COURAGE
True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever the cost.
Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.
Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end?
HONESTY
The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself.
The man who is brutally honest enjoys the brutality quite as much as the honesty. Possibly more.
LEADERSHIP
The Christian who is ambitious to be a star disqualifies himself as a leader.
A leader is a person with a magnet in his heart and a compass in his head.
LIFESTYLE
If God does not enter your kitchen, there is something wrong with your kitchen. If you can't take God into your recreation, there is something wrong with your play. We all believe in the God of the heroic. What we need most these days is the God of the humdrum, the commonplace, the everyday.
Our calling and purpose as followers of Christ is to love God completely, to love self correctly, and to love others compassionately.
MATERIALISM
Any problem that can be solved with money isn't a problem. It's an expense.
The essence of life today is not having—it is having to have.
Most of us would be willing to pay as we go if we could just finish paying for where we've been.
The main emotion of the adult American who has had all the advantages of wealth, education, and culture is disappointment.
REPENTANCE
One thief on the cross was saved, that ...
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