QUOTES/ WORSHIP VISSION

WORSHIP VISSION

71 QUOTES FOR LIFE

1. WORTHWHILE MAN

"It is easy enough to be happy When life goes along like a song But the man worthwhile is the man who can smile When everything goes wrong"

2. ANYONE CAN

Anyone can make mistakes That is why a pencil has an eraser
Anyone can blossom a smile That is why teeth are white
Anyone can give a handshake That is why there are five fingers
Anyone can think high That is why the head is on the top
Anyone can share a bit of their tea That is why cup has a saucer
Anyone can walk alone That is why the shadow goes with him.

3. WHEN ALL IS LOST

When all is lost, and all forgotten Do not weep any more!! For that is when God is closest To your mortal game.

4. ON HOARDING WEALTH

Riches are intended for the comfort of life, but the purpose of life should not be the hoarding of riches only, A wise man was asked, "Who is fortunate and who is unfortunate?". He replied:

'That man was fortunate who spent and gave away whereas he was unfortunate who died and left behind. Pray not for that good for nothing man who did nothing, for he passed his life in hoarding riches and did not spend them'.

5. LOST CUSTOMERS

The Canadian Manufacturers Association found in a survey that out of every 100 customers lost,
* 1 was lost because of death
* 3 were lost when their favorite salesman left the company
* 5 left to buy from a friend or relative
* 9 left because they found they could buy at lower prices else where.
* 14 quit buying because of unadjusted complaints
* 68 quit buying because the employees of the company were indifferent and showed a lack of interest in the customer.

6. BE A LEADER, NOT A BOSS

Bosses drive their people
Leaders coach them
Bosses inspire fear
Leaders enthusiasm
Bosses say "Get here on time"
Leaders get there ahead of time
Bosses fix the blame for the breakdown.
Leaders fix the breakdown
Bosses say "Go", Leaders say, "Let's Go"
Bosses use people Leaders develop them.

7. MY HEART GOT THERE FIRST

It was a winter season. The temperature was below zero. A well clad gentleman was coming down from the Himalayas to the plains. He met an old man, almost bare bodied, making his way towards a high Himalayan shrine. "Old man" said the gentleman well protected from cold,"How can you walk up in this cold? what is your secret?". "You see" replied the old man cheerfully,"My heart got there first without bothering about the weather. It is easy for the rest of me to follow it".

8. ONE THOUGHT

One thought I have in my hold So deep it is and broad And equal to my every need It is the thought of God At night my gladness is my prayer I drop my daily load. And every care is left there Upon the thought of God

.9. THAT IS FOR YOU

At a party, a young wife advised her husband, "For the third time you have gone back for ice-Cream. Don't you feel shy? "Why should I? " he answered "I keep telling them it is for you."

10. THERE ARE THREE SIDES

The Chinese have a famous saying."To every question there are three sides; my side, your side and the right side.

11. EXCESS BAGGAGE- SHORTERN TRIP

You body is the baggage you must carry through life. The more excess baggage, the shorter the trip.
Arnold H. Glasgow

12. TWO CLASSES

Society is based on two classes. Those who have more dinners than appetite and those who have more appetite than dinners.
- Nicholas Chamfort.

13. A HUMAN'S GREATNESS

A human is as great as the dream he/she dreams As great as the value he/she redeems and the happiness he/she shares. A human is as great as the truth he/she speaks As great as the help he/she gives As great as the destiny he/she seeks As great as the life he/she lives.

14. MIDDLE AGED PERSON

A man asked his friend, "When does a person become middle aged?"
The friend replied "When he stops growing upwards and starts growing sideways".

15. DOES GOD USE OUR BATHROOM?

Child : "Mummy , does God use our bathroom?
Mummy : "No, my son, why do you ask?
Child : Then why does daddy beat on the door and shout "Oh god, are you still in there?"

16. HE IS RICHER?

"Our income should be like our shoes: If too small,they will gall and pinch us: but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. But wealth, after all, is a relative thing since he that has little, and wants less, is richer than he that has much, but wants more"
- Lord Chesterfield

17. THE BEST

The best King is thinking
The best wealth is health
The best cure is Nature cure.
The best culture is agriculture.
The best 'ism' is patriotism
The best city is simplicity
The best fare is welfare
The best ship is friendship
The best love is True-love
The best day is today.
Saco. V.H. Stephen

18. FIRST ENGLISH CHURCH BUILT IN INDIA

St Mary's Church inside Fort St George in Chennai is historically one of the most important buildings in India. It is the first English Church built in India. Robert Clive, an extraordinary English man who never lost a battle, was married to Margaret Makelyne in the Church 1753.

18 A. FROM HEAD TO FOOT

The name of the parts of the human body are used in a figurative sense in the following Passage :

M. Ramesh is the Head of a college in his town. He has to face many difficult situations. He cannot afford to turn a deaf ear or a blind eye to what happens on the campus. He should be capable of nosing trouble. On important occasions, he has to mouth past hands. He has many responsibilities to shoulder. Though he deals with the students with a stern hand, he has a soft heart. Often he has to stomach unpleasant things. In the morning he elbows his way into a crowded bus. In the evening he foots the distance home.
Prof S. Jagadisan
19. MANIACS

Bibliomaniac - A Person having a craze for collecting books.
Dipsomaniac - A person having a sickly desire for alcohol.
Theomaniac - A person who believes that he is God.
Pyromaniac - A person who has an irresistible desire to set fire.
Monomaniac - A person having an unreasonable interest in any particular thing, one idea or area of thought.
Megalomaniac - A person with a false impression that he is great and powerful.
Kleptomaniac - A person with an irresistible desire to steal.
Anglomaniac - A person having craze for anything English.
Xenomaniac - A person having an excessive attachment to foreign things.

20. I WILL DO SOMETHING

The best of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying not "What a lovely sermon", but "I will do something". St Francis De Sales.

21. PUTTING THE WATCHES TO THE EARS

Two priests, known for their long winding sermons were having a chat. One said, "It looks very bad when people start looking at their watches in the midst of the sermon. The other said, "That is tolerable, worse is when the listeners start putting their watches to the ears to check whether the watches have not stopped".

22. ONLY 4,000 DAYS TO EDUCATE AND DEVELOP GOOD NATURE

A man of science made the following calculation on human life expectancy. Seventy years of life yield 25,550 days. Remember that a period of twenty years is gone, almost before you begin to live. Reduce 7,300 days. Remainder -18,250 days.
Then the one item sleep reduces 6,080 days leaving 12,170 days. For recreation and occupation we will reduce 4,060 days. Remainder 8,110 days. Then reducing the time used in drinking, dressing, bathing etc, will leave you with not over 4,000 days in a long life in which you have to educate and develop good nature.

23. I NEED HIM

A free thinker saw an old lady saying her prayers with devotion. "Woman", he said, "You are wasting your time because the Lord does not need your prayers" "I know", replied the old lady very calmly and said, "But I need Him"

24. THREE TREASURES

1 have three treasures that I guard and cherish! The first is love, the second is contentment, the third is humility. Only the loving are courageous, only the contented are magnanimous, only the humble are capable of command.
Lao Tse

25. MORE LUCID THOUGHT

If there is righteousness in the heart there will be beauty in the character.
If there is beauty in the character, there will be harmony in the home. If there is harmony at home, there will be honesty in the business. If there is honesty in the business. There will be order in each nation. When there is order in each nation, there will be "Peace" in the world.

26. WHERE DO YOU LOOK FOR HIM?

Do you aspire to worship Him in the temples?
Then learn, first, to worship Him in
the broken cottage. Learn to go out
into the highways and hedges. And
look for him in the ragged and the
naked, in the oppressed and the
heavy loaded, in those who have
lost hope and in those who are
struggling in the midst of poverty
and pain. Look for the Lord in them.
Frank Weston

27. WISDOM FROM KAHLIL GIBRAN

The fear of hell is hell itself, and the longing for paradise is paradise itself.
Oh, heart, if the ignorant say to you that the soul perishes like the body, answer that the flower perishes, but the seeds remain. This is the law of God.
Man's values are in the few things he creates and not in the many possessions he amasses. They say if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something more about himself.

28. LORD GIVE ME THE GRACE TO CHANGE MYSELF

A wise, old middle - eastern mystic said this about himself. "I was a revolutionary when I was young and all my prayer to God was. "Lord, give me the energy to change the world'. As I approached middle age and realized that my life was half gone without my changing a single soul, I changed my prayer to. "Lord, give me the grace to change all those who come into contact with me. Just my family and friends. I shall be satisfied. Now that I am an old man and my days are numbered, I have begun to see how, foolish I have been. My one prayer now is "Lord, give me the grace to change myself". If I had prayed for this right from the start, I would not have wasted my life.

29. MISERY WILL OVERTAKE THE EVIL DOER

A foolish man learning that Buddha observed the principle of great love which commends the return of good for evil, came and abused him. Buddha was silent. When the man had finished his abuse, Buddha told him. "Son, if a man declined to accept a present made to him, to whom would it belong?" And the man answered, "In that case it would belong to the man who offered it.
"My son", said Buddha, "Though you have hurled abuses at me, I decline to accept them, and request you to keep them yourself".

Misery will overtake the evil doer without fail.

Human collects more than they need when the sparrow builds its nest in the wide forest, it builds, only on one branch of a tree. The deer when thirsty drinks from the river only as much as its stomach can contain. Man alone wants to grab and collect and hoard more than what he wants. We collect things because our needs are empty.
- Swami Chinmayananda

30. EACH ONE IS RIGHT

One upon a time some blind men came across an elephant. The elephant was gentle and patient. The blind men surrounded the elephant and held in their hands different parts of his body.
One said while holding the trunk of the elephant, "Surely the elephant is like a snake". "No, No" argued the other while holding the ear of the elephant, "The elephant is like a fan" You are wrong" shouted the third, holding the tail of the elephant, "the elephant is just like a broom".
"The elephant is like a wall" insisted the fourth, holding the elephants mid-section.
The fifth felt the foot of the elephant and declared, "you are all wrong! The elephant is just like a pillow."
And so they argued and argued for three days and three nights. But each was sure that he was the only one who was telling the truth.
Even so, the Truth is one, but it is described differently. Each one is right, because he describes the Truth from a different angle. When you know the Truth through inner vision, all controversies end.

31. ARE YOU GOD?

One cold evening a little boy of about six was standing in front of a stone window. The little boy had no shoes and his clothes were mere rags. A young woman passing by saw the little boy, took the child by hand and led him to the store. There she bought him a pair of new shoes and a complete suit of warm clothes.

They came back outside on to the street and the woman said to the child. "Now you can go home and have a very happy holiday". The little boy asked, "Madam, are you God?" She smiled at him and replied, "No son, I am just one of His children" The little boy then said, "I knew you had to be some relation"
-Dan dark.

32. MOST BEAUTIFUL THING IN THE WORLD

Hoping to paint 'the most beautiful thing in the world' an artist asked three people what they thought it might be.
"Faith", replied the clergy man, "you will find it at every altar".
'Love', said a young bride, "Love builds poverty into riches, it sweetens tears; makes much of little. Without it there is no beauty".
"Peace is the most beautiful thing in the world" answered a weary soldier, "war is ugly. wherever you find peace, you find beauty"
"Faith, love, peace! how can I paint them!" wondered the artist.
Entering his home he saw the faith in the eyes of his children and love in the eyes of his wife. And in his home, he saw the peace that love and faith had built.
So he painted 'the most beautiful thing in the world'. And he called it "Home".

33. I ONLY WANTED TO BE WITH YOU

A doctor was busy in his study when his small son came in and stood silently by. The doctor, pre-occupied with his work, put his hand into his pocket, took out a coin and offered it to the boy, "I do not want any money daddy" the lad said.

After a few moments the doctor opened a drawer of his desk, took out a candy bar and offered this to his son. Again he was refused.

A little impatient, the busy doctor asked, "Well, what do you want?"
"I do not want anything. "The boy replied, "I only wanted to be with you".

34. "LOOKUP"

In the days of sailing ships, a young and inexperienced seamen was sent in a storm to remove a broken part from the mainmast. In spite of the raging wind, the youngster climbed up swiftly and did the job. When it was time to descend, he looked down and saw the vessel tossing and rolling in the ugly sea.
Suddenly his courage left him. He felt dizzy and faint. He called to the mate on the deck below "I am going to fall"! The mate shouted back "Do not look down, boy. Look up". The young seaman did as he was told and came down safely.

If more people would "look up" when everything seems to be going wrong, they would find that their lives would begin to "look up" too.

35. POSITIVE SPEECH - LEADS TO POSITIVE ACTION

Positive speech leads to positive action. Utter the following words clearly and decisively as soon as you wake up in the morning. Feel the enthusiasm and the life they bring you.
A - I am awake, alive and alert
B - I am benevolent, broad minded, bountiful.
C - I am cheerful, courageous and confident
D - I am determined, definite and decisive.
E - I am energetic, enthusiastic and enlivening
F - I am free, fearless and friendly.
G - I am grateful, generous and gracious
H - I am healthy, hopeful and happy

36. HE WHO CONQUERS THE MIND CONQUERS THE WORLD

A snake and a mouse happened to live in the same barn, full of haystacks. The farmer put in his hand to take out some hay and instantly the snake bit him. The mouse thrust its little head out at the same time. The farmer sighted him and muttered indifferently, "Ah, it's just a wee mouse" The next day, the mouse bit the farmers hand, while the snake peered out. Catching sight of the snake, the farmer screamed "My God, the snake bit me" and fainted with sheer terror.
It is our fear that creates terror. It is fear that emasculates and saps our courage. So he who conquers the mind conquers the world.

37. I HAVE LEARNT TO LIKE WHAT I GET

Traveler : What kind of weather are we going to have today?
Shepherd : The kind of weather I like"
Traveler : How do you know it will be the kind of weather you like?
Shepherd : "Having found out, sir, that I cannot always get what I like, I have learnt always to like what I get. So I am quite sure we will have the kind of weather I like".
Happiness and unhappiness are in the way we meet events,
not in the nature of those events themselves.
- Anthony De Mello

38. ANALYZE YOUR MIND AND REMOVE THE WOLF

Once upon a time, a light footed lamb, cautiously approached a murmuring stream in the forest. He was thirsty and drank from the stream with his ears erect, listening to every sound. Suddenly he heard an abrupt sound. He looked back. Whom could he see? It was that fierce faced wolf he often dreamt of in his frightening dream.
The wolf stared at the poor lamb and said, "How dare you make the water muddy! Now, how am I to drink from this stream?"
"Sir", replied the lamb, humbly, "water is flowing from you to me".
"Never mind, you rascal", shouted the wolf "Why did your father utter abusive words to me?" To this the poor lamb had no reply. The wolf then proceeded to jump upon the lamb and devour it.
There are many pretexts for carrying out a wicked design. One should analyses one's mind and remove the wolf from one's personality as soon as possible.

42. THREE THINGS

There are three things that if a man does not know, he cannot live long in this world; what is too much for him, what is too little for him and what is just for him.

43. THE SEVEN SINS

Politics without principle
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice
- Mahatma Gandhi

44. DEVELOPMENT OR GROWTH

"Can you tell me who made you?" The pastor asked the small boy.
The youngster thought a moment. Then he looked up at the pastor and said, "God made part of me"
"What do you mean, part of you" asked the pastor
"Well" answered the boy, "God made me little. I grew the rest myself".
Growing the rest is a lifetime job for everyone".

45. HEAVEN & HELL

A man spoke with the Lord about heaven and hell "I will show you hell", said the Lord, and they went into a room which had a large pot of stew in the middle. The smell was delicious, but around the pot sat desperate people who were starving. All were holding spoons with very long handle which reached into the pot. But because the handle of the spoon was longer than their arms, it was impossible to get the stew into their mouths. Their suffering was terrible. "Now I'll show you heaven", said the Lord and they went into another room stood the first one. There was a similar pot of delicious stew and the people had the same long - handled spoons, but they were well nourished, talking and happy. At first the man did not understand. "It is simple", said the Lord. "You see they have learned to feed each other.

46. IT'S A BIBLE

A salesman went to a house selling a dictionary. 'I tell you" said the house wife to the sales man, "I don't want a dictionary. I already have one. There it is, lying over there on the table". "Lady, you can't fool me", retorted the salesman, "That's no dictionary, that's a Bible". "How can you be so sure about it?" asked the woman, her eyes opened wide in amazement. "That's easy" said the salesman,"By the dust on it".

47.BUT BY DEEDS

Not by birth does one become an outcaste, Not by birth does one become a Brahmana, By deeds one becomes an outcaste, By deeds one becomes a Brahmana,
- The Buddha

48.ATTITUDE TO WORK

Back in the middle ages, a dispatcher went out to determine how laborers felt about their work. He went to a building site in France.
He approached the first worker and asked, "What are you doing?"
"What, are you blind?" the worker snapped back. "I am cutting these impossible boulders with primitive tools and putting them together the way the boss tells me. I am sweating under the blazing sun. It's back-breaking work, and it's boring me to death".
The dispatcher quickly backed off and retreated to a second worker. He asked the same question, "What are you doing?"
The worker replied, "I am shaping these boulders into usable forms, which are then assembled according to the architect's plan. It's hard work and sometimes it get's repetitive, but I earn five francs week and that supports the wife and kids. It is a job. It could be worse, too".
Some what encouraged, the dispatcher went on to a third worker, "And what are you doing?" he asked.
"Why, can't you see?" said the worker as he lifted his arm to the sky. "I am building a cathedral".
Now that's the joy of working.

49. THE WOMAN WHO BUILT THE DAM

As I build this dam
I bury my life
The dawn breaks,
There is no flour in the grinding stone
I collect yesterday's husk for
today's meal.
The sun rises. And my spirit sinks
Hiding my baby under a basket
and biding my tears I go to build the dam.
The dam is ready, It feeds their sugarcane fields making the crop lush and juicy. But I walk miles through forests in search of a drop of drinking water.
I water the vegetation with drops of my sweat. As dry leaves fall and fill my parched yard.
Daya Pawar "Silent spring"

50. CACTUS & CATERPILLARS

I asked the Lord to give me a bunch of flowers but, the lord gave me cactus, ugly and full of thorns. I asked the Lord to give me lovely butterflies. But the Lord gave me hairy caterpillars, horrible and obscene. I was shocked, disappointed and grieved. After many days I saw the cactus burst into bloom. Those hairy caterpillars also turned into lovely butterflies, flying and dancing in the spring wind. How unfathomable God's purpose is.

51. DREAM OF THE WEEK

The grass dreams a dream in the soil. Then has sprouts, flowers and fruits. By autumn the leaves of grass fall. Then it is as if the dreams of the grass have gone. Yet the seeds dropped beside the old stalk dream the dream the following year.
One grass dies in one year, the next grass will die within the year. Grass after grass repeats the dream timelessly. The grass never gives up the dream. Does not consider it's dream only as it's own. The dream is dwelling in successive dreams. Dream the dream of the time; how they will be a million years later.
Yoshinei Miya.

52. LIVE IN FREEDOM

"Live, live in this world. This world is so marvelously beautiful. It is our world, our earth to live upon, but we do not live. We are narrow, we are separate, we are anxious, we are frightened human beings, and therefore we do not live, we have no relationship, we are isolated, despairing human beings. We do not know what it means to live in that ecstatic blissful sense.
I say one can live that way only when one knows how to be free from all the stupidities of one's life. To be free from them is only possible in becoming aware of one's relationship, not only with human beings, but with ideas, with nature, with everything".

53. ON EDUCATING WOMEN

Jawahar Lal Nehru : "Education of a boy is the education of one person, but education of a girl is the education of the entire family".

Chinese saying : If you want to plan for a year plant wheat, if you wish to plan for ten years grow trees. But if you want to plan for one hundred years educate your women.

54. LITTLE WORDS FOR HUMAN RELATIONS

The most important six words "I admit I made a mistake"
The most important five words "I am proud of you"
The most important four words "What is your opinion"
The most important three words "If you please"
The most important two words 'Thank You"
The most important one word "We" And the least important word, U.

55. THE SILVER LINING

After taking the children to school one rainy morning, I stopped at a fast food restaurant and ordered breakfast. Except for some un cleaned paper cups, boxes and potato chips littering the tables, there was no sign of other customers in the restaurant.
A young woman walked in with a boy, aged five or six. They had no sooner sat down to order than a man, slightly hunched and wearing a tottered coat, came in. He inched towards a littered table and slowly examined each of the boxes, looking for leftovers. When he picked up a cold french fry and put it to his mouth, the boy whispered to his mother, "Mum, that man is eating other's food".
"He is hungry and doesn't have any money, the mother whispered back.
"Can we buy him a burger? "No, I think he'll take only what others don't want", the mother replied.
When the waiters handed mother and son two take out bags and they approached the door to leave, the boy suddenly removed a burger from his bag and took a small bite from it. Then he ran back to where the man sat and placed it on the table before him.
Surprised, the vagrant looked gratefully at the boy as he turned and disappeared. As I left the restaurant, I saw that the blue sky was coming out from' under the leaden clouds.

56. FOOTPRINTS

Lives of great men all remind us: We can make our lives sublime And departing, leave behind us Foot prints on the sands of time.
57. WITHOUT YOU - GOD - I'M NOTHING

I am a spark, make me a Flame
I am a string, make me a Lute
I am an anthill, make me a Mountain
I ! am a drop, make me an Ocean
I am a feather, make me a Wing
I am a beggar, make me a King
For, without you, we can do nothing.

58. REPENTANCE

If there is no repentance, there can be no pardons. Some years ago a murderer was sentenced to death. The murderer's brother to whom the state was deeply indebted to for former service, besought the governor of the state for his brother's pardon. The pardon was granted, and the man visited his brother with the pardon in his pocket. "What would you do", he said to him "if you received a pardon". "The first thing I would do he answered, "is to track down the judge who sentenced me, and murder him; and the next thing I would do is to track down the chief witness and murder him".

The brother rose, and left the prison with the pardon in his pocket.

59. ON SERMON

"How late do you usually sleep on Sunday morning?"
"It all depends"
"On what?
"The length of the sermon"

60. I KNOW THE BIBLE

A small girl told her pastor that she knew everything in the Bible. The pastor was amused and remarked that she might know a few things, but not quite well. "Oh yes, 'was the quick reply, "I do know all that is in it".
Her mother, who had been listening rebuked the child for saying such a thing. The daughter was persistent and said, "But mother I do". There is grand mothers favorite picture, three dead leaves, a lock of Bobby's hair when he was a baby, a love letter from daddy, and a recipe for brown bread. That's all there is in the Bible".

61. NOT AFRAID OF POMPOUS RELIGION

About a hundred years ago, England was to send a very important Anglican Church dignitary as metropolitan of Calcutta. The Brahmin priests got wind of it. They were perturbed. This foreign religion might become a threat to their own tradition. They must investigate. So they sent one of their men to assess the situation. He wandered around the city till he came to the Bishop's residence. It was a vast sprawling, opulent mansion. As the man stood at the gate, the Bishop walked down the steps, arrayed in his magnificent robes. He stepped, into the waiting carriage drawn by two horses, with a position sitting at the rear. "Have no fear", one priest said "This is not a religion we need fear".
The priests were relieved, and rightly relieved, for the pomp and splendor of organized Christianity holds no appeal for any genuine seeker after truth.

62. ON CHRISTMAS

Christmas! But where is the spirit of Christmas in human hearts. Men and Women feast upon rich food amid bursts of laughter. There are not even the least sentiments of the eternal at the bottom of their hearts, neither the bright serenity of joy, nor the depth of devotion, what a great difference, in the religious feast of our country.
Rabindranath Tagore

63. PALM MONDAY

The donkey awakened. His mind savoring something pleasant, He arched his neck and walked around with mincing steps.
"That group of people by the well", he said. "I'll go and show myself to them".
They took no notice "Throw your garments down, he said crossly "Don't you know who I am?"
They stared at him in amazement. Someone threw a stone,
"Miserable infidels"! he muttered as he turned away in rage, "I'll go down to the market. Some good people are sure to be there. But it was the same.
"The palm branches! Where are the palm branches?" he shouted - "Have you forgotten?"
Dazed he returned to his mother "Foolish child", she said gently. "Without him you can do nothing".

64. A CHILD'S PRAYERS

Morning
I thank Thee Lord, for sleep and rest, For all the things that I love best, Now guide me through another day, And bless my work and bless my play, Lord, make me strong for noble ends, Protect and bless my loving friends, Of all humankind good Christians make, All this I ask for Jesus sake. Amen
Evening
Lord, send me sleep that I may live, The wrong I've done this day forgive, Bless every deed and thought and word, I've rightly done, or said, or heard, Bless relatives and friends always. Teach all the world to watch and pray, My thanks for all my blessings take, And hear my prayer for Jesus's sake Amen

65. STOPPING TO LISTEN

A man working in an ice plant amid the ice, and the sawdust in which it was stored, lost a valuable watch. His fellow workmen searched with him for more than two hours, but were unable to find it. They left the plant for lunch and returned to find a little boy with the watch in his hand. "How ever did you find it?" they inquired. He replied, "I just lay down in the sawdust and heard it' ticking. We, too, cannot find God by intensive, bustling search, but must be still, and (know that I am God).

66. LIVE IN PRESENT

Trust no future, however pleasant. Let the past bury it's dead! Act - act in the living present! Hearts within and God overhead.
N.W. Longfellow

67. HE'S SWIMMING-WITH GOD

The goldfish died after living in a bowl that was in the family lounge. The first time the baby sitter came over after the fish died, she immediately noticed the empty bowl, "Where's the fish? she asked Without hesitating, the family's three year old shot back, "Oh, he's swimming with God".

68. FOOT PRINTS IN THE SAND

By Mary Stevenson
written in 1936
One night I dreamed I was walking
Along the beach with the Lord.
Many scenes from my life flashed across the sky.
In each scene I noticed footprints in the sand.
Sometimes there were two sets of footprints.
Other times there were one set of footprints.
This bothered me because I noticed that
During the low periods of my life when I was
Suffering from anguish, sorrow, or defeat,
I could see only one set of footprints,
So I said to the Lord, "You promised me,
Lord, that if I followed You,
You would walk with me always.
But I noticed that during the most trying periods
Of my life there have only been
One set of prints in the sand.
Why, When I have needed You most,
You have not been there for me?"
The Lord replied,
"The times when you have seen only one set of footprints
Is when I carried you.
69. GOOD LUCK? BAD LUCK? WHO KNOWS?

There is a Chinese story of an old farmer who had an old horse for tilling his fields. One day the horse escaped into the hills and when all the farmers neighbors sympathized with the old man over his bad luck, the farmer replied, "Bad luck? Good luck? Who knows?" A week later the horse returned with a head of wild horses from the hills and this time the neighbors congratulated the farmer on his good luck. His reply was, "Good luck? Bad luck? Who Knows?". Then when the farmer's son was attempting to tame one of the wild horses, he fell off its back and broke his leg. Everyone thought this very bad luck. Not the farmer, whose only reaction was "Bad luck? Good luck? Who Knows?". Some weeks later the army marched into the village and conscripted every able - bodied youth they found there. When they saw the farmer's son with his broken leg they let him off. Now was that "Good luck? Bad luck? Who knows? "

70. HE CHANGED ME

Bishop Emerson Colaw writes that during one Lenten season he went to see a drama that portrayed the life of Jesus. "The man Born to be King reached it's climax in the crucifixion scene. The three Marys entered and approached the Roman guards. Mary, the mother of Jesus, spoke to the Captain requesting permission to minister to the needs of her son. He roughly pushed her away. Then one of the other women came forward and sought permission, adding, "For old times sake". The captain refused her request also. Then with a sweeping motion of her hand she loosed her golden hair so that it could cascade down her back. "Mercellus", she asked, "have you ever seen hair like this" And then she thrust out a foot and asked, "And have feet ever danced for you like these feet?"
Incredulity was on his face. In amazement he said, "Mary Magdalene how you have changed!" Slowly, with dramatic emphasis, she turned so that her back was to the audience and she was facing Christ on the cross and slowly said, "Yes, Mercellus, I have changed, He changed me!".

71. "I JUST WANT SOMEONE TO LOVE ME" '

The story is told about a childless couple who wanted to adopt a little boy approximately six years old. They had visited several adoption agencies and finally found a child that was a match for their family. As they visited the child the wife said, "If you would come and live with us you could have your own private room, a nice yard with play equipment and all the toys and clothes you could ever want. Would you like to come and live with us? The little boy hesitated a moment and said, "No, I don't think so."
The couple was stunned. They felt that they had offered the child everything a child could want. The husband said to the boy, "We've offered you everything anyone could want. What more do you want? In words far beyond his years the child replied," I just

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