In 1986 Desmond Tutu, an anti-apartheid and social rights activist and Anglican bishop, recounted the story of the whites coming to South Africa. “When they came,” the bishop said, “the blacks had the land and the whites had the Bible.” Then, he said, the whites wanted to teach the blacks to pray. “So we bowed our heads and closed our eye...
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When Robert Burns on his deathbed spoke to his beloved nephew, he patted his well-worn Bible and said, “Read the Book and be a good man and when you come to the place where I am now, you will know that that’s all that’s important.”
The Bible is the Magna Carta of human rights. It is the sailor’s compass. It is the shepherd’s staff....
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Fast Lane Magazine once conducted a poll among 400 men between the ages of 18 and 34. Their question was, “Other than yourself, what person would you like most to be like?”
In response to the question, number one on the list of those polled was Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North. Number two was President Ronald Regan. Number three was Clint Eastwood, and tie...
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Fulton Sheen, the late Roman Catholic bishop, once proposed that since America had a Statue of Liberty on the East Coast, the country should establish a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast.
It was said that during the years of his presidency Harry Truman kept on his desk a sign that stated, “The buck stops here.” It consistently reminded him that h...
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Milton Cunningham tells that when he was in Africa, he was seated at a banquet table with the Litunga of Barotseland and members of his family. The Litunga was one of the paramount royal chiefs of Africa. His kingdom was in the western providence of Zambia. Milton says, ”I was seated next to a young African lady about 20 years old who was a member of the Litunga...
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Buckner Fanning, pastor of the Trinity Baptist Church, San Antonio, said that early in his ministry that he was preaching a revival meeting at one of the churches in Bogalusa, Louisiana. In the last service of that revival they asked a young man who had not been a Christian for a long time to give his testimony. As he stepped out on the platform Buckner said it was as...
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I talked with a businessman this past week who made an investment some time ago. At the present time, he is getting back every month as much as his original investment. Do you know what he said to me? He said, “I wish I had been able to put more into it.” If you ever look at life as the kind of investment that brings back to you according to what you put i...
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Some time ago the Baptist preacher Carlyle Marney quoted Herodotus as saying, “The greatest tragedy that could come to any person’s life is to aspire to do much and then to achieve little.” And Marney said, “No, that is not so. The greatest tragedy is to aspire to do something, and to do it, and then to discover it’s not worth doing.&rdqu...
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In 1909 Pierre Curie, a man who along with his wife discovered radium, was run over by a wagon and killed instantly. The loss of her husband was a devastating experience to Madam Curie emotionally. Thereafter for months, she wrote personal notes to him daily in her diary. In one of those notes, she described the funeral service and how they gathered by the graveside a...
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