Real Life Ministries
"God's Really God ... You Really Matter to Him"
Etc.
Thoughts to Make You Think
- You can usually make more money, but you can never make more time.
- You can't be a smart cookie with a crummy attitude.
- How you live matters way more than where you live.
- Teamwork makes any project more productive.
- Measure twice, cut once.
- If at first you don't succeed don't try skydiving.
- You'll always miss every shot you don't take.
- Don't let what has been keep you from what can be.
- Failure can be a good thing if you learn from it.
- You can't really put anything behind you until you're willing to face and deal with it first.
- If you think you can, you're right. If you think you can't, you're right.
- Yesterday ended last night.
- Pride and shame seem so very different but both have the same effect ... they keep you from God.
- Show me your friends and I'll show you your future.
- Successful people don't do things differently, they do different things.
- Why do we park in a driveway and drive on a parkway? Have you ever wondered what the best thing was before sliced bread?!
- You'll never be able to enjoy all the beauty of the ocean until you're willing to lose sight of the shore.
- Never let what you think others might be thinking about you cause you to think more or less of yourself than you should. Actually, you'd worry a whole lot less about what others think about you if you realized just how little they do!
- Have you ever seen a seeing-eye cat?
- Decide what you want written on your grave stone and spoken at your funeral and start living it today.
- Persistence pays off. Consistancy is powerful.
- The measure of a man or women isn't in what they do or who they are in public, it's in what they do and who they are in private.
- Even eagles need a push.
- Prisons are an earthly picture of hell. There has to be a place to contain rebellion for now and for ever.
- Just because something looks good doesn't mean it is ... the most poisonous mushrooms are some of the most beautiful.
- Raising teenagers is like nailing Jello to a tree.
- Pay now, play later. Play now, pay later.
- Humble yourself or be humiliated. The choice is yours.
- We're not bodies with spirits, we're spirits with bodies. We're not human beings having a spiritual experience, we're spiritual beings having a human experience --- and sometimes it stinks.
- People don't care what you know until they know that you care. (Remember, it's "show & tell" NOT "tell & show.")
- There's a 100% death rate.
- The mighy oak is just a nut that held its ground.
- Choices have consequences. Inherent in the existence of a choice is a consequence. Make good choices and you'll get good consequences. Make bad choices and you'll get bad consequences. Impulsive reactions rather than insightful responses often wind up leaving despair and destruction in the end.
- No child ever dreams to grow up and one day to be an addict living on the street.
- Teardrops are older than raindrops.
- Don't be afraid to trust your unknown future to God. Since He inhabits eternity He's already there.
- Love people, use things.
- Bigger isn't always better. Goliath was huge, but, he had rocks in his head.
- Commitment sometimes means being willing to be unhappy for a little or long while if need be.
- We often don't see things as they really are ... we see them as we really are.
- It's never too late to be what you might have become.
- A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not the reason for which ships are built.
Quotes
(From Serious to Silly to Significant)
- "Even God can't sink this ship" - Builder of the Titanic
- "Amazing. It was just amazing. Everyone just started goin' nuts." - Jason McElwain
- "Better to remain silent and thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt." - Abraham Lincoln
- "There is a joy in the journey, there's a light we can love on the way, there is a wonder and wildness to life and freedom for those who obey." - Michael Card
- "Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face." - Dave Barry
- "I'm going to do something different with my life." - Craig Gross
- "Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room." - Winston Churchill
- "Sometimes we choose to make sacrifices; we tighten our belts to pay for the education of our children, or we give up a treasured day off to help a friend in need. And then there are the sacrifices in which we have no say - like Isaac experiences as described in Genesis 22 - which are thrust upon us without warning or survival instructions." - Carol Kent
- "Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
- "He [God] is strong, so you don't have to be, you will find the strength you seek in the courage to be weak." / "There has never been a night without a dawn." / "Help me cast aside these chains of my self-sufficiency, give me back the trusting heart that sets me free." - David Baroni
- "A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five." - Groucho Marx
- "I'm a sports writer, not a theologian. I never imagined being a faith writer. I'm still amazed when I speak in churches, or when people come to me with questions about faith." / "Real faith writing should be about real life." - Terry Pluto
- "Do not count your chickens before they are hatched." - Aesop (from The Milkmaid and Her Pail)
- "'To Write Love on Her Arms' is about cutting. It's about depression. It's about addiction. It's about suicide." - Unknown (CAUTION: VERY GRAPHIC)
- "How many observe Christ's birthday! How few His precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep holidays than commandments." - Benjamin Franklin
- "If You're not in it I don't want to be there ... I don't have a life to spare." - Brent Vernon
- "Abortion is advocated only by persons who themselves have been born." - Ronald Reagan
- "Run steady, run straight." - Knute Larson
- "As if you could kill time without injuring eternity." Henry David Thoreau
- "Days will come and years will pass by but You Lord will reign forever on high." - Denver Bierman
- "The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem, it has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one." - Albert Einstein
- "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha." - A Laughing Baby
- "Even if you're on the right track you'll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
- "Across the street or around the world the mission's still the same, proclaim and live the truth in Jesus' Name." - Steve Green
- "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart." - Helen Keller
- "Oh, I want to know You more." - Steve Fry
Funny Stories
Two New York men who had never been out of the city decided that they had had it with city living, so they bought a ranch down in Texas in order to live off the land like their ancestors.
The first thing they decided they needed was a mule. So they went to a neighboring rancher and asked him if he had a mule to sell. The rancher answered, “No, I’m afraid not.”
They were disappointed, but as they visited with the rancher for a few moments one of them saw some honeydew melons stacked against the barn and asked, “What are those?” The rancher, seeing that they were hopeless city slickers, decided to have some fun. “Oh,” he answered, “those are mule eggs. You take one of those eggs home and wait for it to hatch, and you’ll have a mule.” The city slickers were overjoyed at this, so they bought one of the melons and headed down the bumpy country road toward their own ranch. Suddenly they hit an especially treacherous bump, and the honeydew melon bounced out the back of the pickup truck, hit the road, and burst open. Seeing in his rearview mirror what had happened, the driver turned his truck around and drove back to see if he could retrieve his mule egg.
Meanwhile a big old Texas jackrabbit came hopping by and saw this honeydew melon burst in the road. He hopped over to it and, standing in the middle of that mess, he began to eat. Now here came the two city slickers. They spied their mule egg burst open and this long-eared creature in the middle of it. One of the men shouted, “Our mule egg has hatched! Let’s get our mule.”
But seeing those two men coming toward it, the jackrabbit took off hopping in every direction with the two city fellows in hot pursuit. The two men from New York gave everything they had to catch him, but finally they could go no farther. Both men fell wearily onto the ground gasping for air while the jackrabbit hopped off into the distance. Raising up on his elbow, one of the men said to the other, “Well, I guess we lost our mule.” The other man nodded grimly. “Yes, but you know,” he said, “I’m not sure I wanted to plow that fast anyway.”
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A little boy was overheard talking to himself as he strutted through the backyard, baseball cap in place, toting ball and bat. He was heard to say, “I’m the greatest hitter in the world.” Then he tossed the ball into the air, swung at it and missed. “Strike one!” Undaunted he picked up the ball, threw it into the air and said to himself—“I’m the greatest baseball hitter ever,” and he swung at the ball again. And again he missed. “Strike two!” He paused a moment to examine his bat and ball carefully. Then a third time he threw the ball into the air. “I’m the greatest hitter who ever lived,” he said. He swung the bat hard again, missed a third time. He cried out, “Wow! Strike three! What a pitcher! I’m the greatest pitcher in the world!”
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A woman in an extended care facility was given a party to celebrate her 100th birthday. Her pastor came to offer his congratulations. Later he said, “Her mind was very keen and she was joyfully alert. When I arrived it was obvious she was completely caught up in the excitement of the party." A local TV reporter had come to interview her. When he asked her, ‘Do you have any children?’ she said, ‘Not yet!’”
