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Life's Lessons "When you wrap a flag around the Cross, you make both impotent." - Mark Lowry "If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you." - George Bernard Shaw "Before you go minister, define the boundaries of your hypocrisy." - Tony Campolo "No matter how little you have, you can always give some of it away." - Catherine Marshall "If you have ADD, you shouldn't learn to ride a motorcycle until you learn to drive a wheelchair." - Mark Lowry "With hurricanes, earthquakes, fires out of control, mud slides, tornadoes, flooding and severe thunderstorms tearing up the country from one end to another, with the threat of bird flu and terrorist attacks, are we sure this is a good time to take God out of the Pledge of Allegiance?" - Jay Leno "But you have to pray. You have to listen to the voice who calls you the beloved because, otherwise, you will run around begging for affirmation, for praise, for success. And then you're not free." - Henri J.M. Nouwen "We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give." - Winston Churchill "If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble." - Bob Hope "Life is a series of recoveries." - Mark Lowry "Strength is the capacity to break a chocolate bar into four pieces with your bare hands - and then just eat one of the pieces." - Judith Viorst "Few sinners are saved after the first twenty minutes of a sermon." - Mark Twain "One thing is clear to me. You can't know everything you'd like to know. You can't do everything you'd like to do. You can't read everything you'd like to read. You must hold onto some things and let go of others. Learning to make that choice is one of the big lessons of this life." - Gordon Atkinson "Although He's regularly asked to do so, God does not take sides in American politics." - George J. Mitchell "Dumb people don't know they're dumb." - Charles Lowry "If someone wants to know how indispensable they are, they need to get a glass of water, stick their finger in it, pull it out and see how big a hole they leave." "The self-righteous have their fig leaves so tightly bound that they have forgotten the seeping wounds beneath the foliage." - Mark Lowry "A proud man is seldom a grateful man, for he never thinks he gets as much as he deserves." - Henry Ward Beecher "He who thinks that he is finished, is finished. How true. Those who think that they have arrived, have lost their way. Those who think they have reached their goal, have missed it. Those who think they are saints, are demons." - Henri Nouwen, The Genesee Diary "What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal." - Albert Pike "Politics trims the bush, the Gospel cuts the root." - Mark Lowry "The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality." - Brian Tracy "Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your gold and good health have vanished." - Og Mandino "Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom and charity." - William Menninger "Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss it, you will land among the stars." - Les Brown "The true measure of a man is the height of his ideals, the breadth of his sympathy, the depth of his convictions, and the length of his patience." "Broken pots spill more water." - Mark Lowry "Advice is like snow - the softer it falls, the longer it dwells and the deeper it sinks into the mind." - Samuel T. Coleridge "You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance." - Franklin P. Adams "Any fool can count the seeds in an apple. Only God can count all the apples in one seed." - Robert H. Schuller "Never allow anyone to rain on your parade and thus cast a pall of gloom and defeat on the entire day. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealousy and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower but any foolish child can pull it to pieces." - Og Mandino "The best thing parents can spend on their children is time, NOT money." "A little nonsense now and then, is cherished by the wisest men." - Willy Wonka "Gentlemen, with the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh, I should die." - Abraham Lincoln "Count your nights by stars, not shadows; count your life with smiles, not tears." - Italian Proverb "The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith, and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety." - George Mueller "We must have faith but it is doubt that causes us to learn." "Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives, is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see." - Corrie ten Boom "Every happening - great and small - is a parable whereby God speaks to us and the art of life is to get the message." - Malcolm Muggeridge "Whenever you see food beautifully arranged on a plate, you know someone's fingers have been all over it." - Julia Child "The longer the line of preparation, the more likely to intersect the line of opportunity!" - Bob MacKenzie (who learned it from Ron Kerr, who first heard it from the famous cornet virtuoso and conductor of Detroit's Belle Isle Band in the 1950s) "The quickest way for a parent to get a child's attention is to sit down and look comfortable." - Lane Olinghouse "There are two things I've learned: There is a God. And, I'm not Him." "A lie is still a lie if everyone believes it, and the truth is still the truth if no one believes it." - Dan Scott "Life is too important to be taken seriously." - Oscar Wilde "A man who is the same at 50 as he was at 20 has wasted 30 years." - Muhammad Ali "There are no illegitimate children, only illegitimate parents." - Leon R. Yankwich "Familiarity breeds contempt, and children." - Mark Twain "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose." - James Elliot "Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself." "For people who want to succeed in life, I strongly recommend some four letter words: work, risk, guts, zest." "He who laughs ... lasts." "For one minute of anger, there are sixty seconds of happiness lost." "Don't repay kindness, pass it on." "Listen to the viewpoints of others but don't be so open-minded that your brain falls out." - Donald H. Timmer "If you want what you have never had, you must do what you have never done." - Eastman Curtis "You can even get used to hangin' - if you hang long enough." "Always tell the truth, but don't always be telling it!" "I always watch the words I speak and keep them nice and sweet. For I never know, from day to day, the ones I'll have to eat." "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing." - Edmund Burke (1729-1797) "Life is 10 per cent of what happens to you, and 90 per cent of how you respond to it." - Charles Swindoll "When all is said and done, there's a lot more said than done." - Bob MacKenzie "People gather bundles of sticks to build bridges they never cross." - Dovie Lowry, 1869-1967, Baptist Preacher's wife, Saltillo, TX "Excellence: Doing the best you can With what you have Every chance you get." - Derric Johnson "Enjoy the little things for, one day, you will look back and realize they were the Big Things." - Jim Mustian "Ideas are like children - your own are wonderful." "Have a blast while you last." - Barbara Johnson "It's easier to get forgiveness than permission." "Even if you are on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers "I don't have to attend every argument I'm invited to." "Time flies whether you're having fun or not!" - Cheryl Buckley "Every time you get a chance - hush." - Holman Cox "Sometimes the majority only means that all the fools are on the same side." - Michael W. Smith "Consider the postage stamp; its usefulness consists in the ability to stick to ONE thing till it gets there." - Josh Billings "Even when you fall flat on your face, you're still moving forward." "Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt "Never borrow sorrow from tomorrow." - Helen Steiner Rice "The only difference between a rut and a grave is the depth." - Gerald Burrill "Many a time, we've been down to our last piece of fatback. And I'd say, 'Should we eat it or render it for soap?' Your Uncle Jed would say, 'Render it down. God will provide food for us poor folks, but we gotta do our washin.'" - Granny, The Beverly Hillbillies "When you get to a certain age, you say, 'If they like it, Great. If they don't, TOUGH!'" - Vestal Goodman "Get happy in the same clothes you got mad in." "God needs spiritual fruit, not religious nuts." "We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." - Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Paleontologist, Jesuit priest and philosopher "Worry is wasting today's time to clutter up tomorrow's opportunities with yesterday's troubles." "The thing that's cool about music is how unnecessary it is. Of all things, music is the most frivolous and the most useless. You can't eat it, you can't drive it, you can't live in it, you can't wear it. But your life wouldn't be worth much without it." - Rich Mullins "There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of one small candle." - Inscription found on a small new gravestone in Britain