"Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."   - Benjamin Disraeli

Actual bumper stickers:

 We're born naked, wet, & hungry. Then things get worse.

 It's as bad as you think, and they are out to get you.

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Whether you think you can or not, you are right. -- Henry Ford

We don't necessarily recognize success when we see it. When Hamilton College celebrated its centennial, one of its most famous alumni,

Alexander Woolcott, was asked to give a major address. Woolcott opened his speech this way: "I send my greetings today to all my fellow alumni

of Hamilton College, scattered all over the world. Some of you are successes, and some of you are failures--only God knows which are which!"

It's hard to recognize success. We don't always know it when we see it.

Jesus was able to recognize success and he wasn't going to allow the crowds to define it for him.

J. Ellsworth Kalas, If Experience Is Such A Good Teacher Why Do I keep Repeating The Course, Nashville: Dimensions, 1994, p. 88.

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As a child, I suffered many things that I would consider to be injustices or abuse. My father died only nine months old, and I spent much of my early childhood alone while my mother worked. Later in my child hood, my mother married a man who was very abusive to me and to my mother, not only emotionally but physically Even so, I have never once felt myself to be a victim.

Rather, I choose to believe that I am a beloved child of God. God is up to something in my life that is ultimately for my good. He has a purpose in allowing bad things to happen, and his purpose extends not only to my life alone, but to the lives of others whom I may influence or help. -- Dr. Charles Standley

Keep your face to the sun and shadows will always be behind.

Between the great things we can't do and the small things we won't do lies the danger that we shall do nothing.

Ravi Zacharias in his book "Can man live without God?" tells the following story. A young somewhat cocky cowboy was riding his horse one day when he spied a hunched over old farm hand on a mule. Deciding to have a little fun the young cowboy drew his 6 shooter and told the old man to get down of his mule. He then asked the old man "if he had ever danced" and began to empty his revolver at his feet with great laughter. The old man slowly turned back to his mule (unamused) and put his hand into his pack and drew a shotgun and aimed it at the now bulletless young cowboy and he said "did you ever kiss a mule?" To which the young cowboy said with fright "no but I have always wanted to!" There is nothing like a bullet for motivation. While the Lord does not put a gun to our heads he does give us the stories of the Bible for direction and motivation, are you listening.

"When the followers of Jesus Christ lose their interest in heaven they will no longer be happy Christians and when they are no longer happy Christians they cannot be a powerful force in a sad and sinful world."  -- A.W. Tozer, Who Put Jesus on the Cross?, 105 --

"I have opinions of my own, but I don't always agree with them."  -- George Bush --

In his book of sermons "The Living Faith," Lloyd C. Douglas tells the story of Thomas Hearne, who, "in his journey to the mouth of the Coppermine River, wrote that a few days after they had started on their expedition, a party of Indians stole most of their supplies. His comment on the apparent misfortune was: 'The weight of our baggage being so much lightened, our next day's journey was more swift and pleasant.' Hearne was in route to something very interesting and important; and the loss of a few sides of bacon and a couple of bags of flour meant nothing more than an easing of the load. Had Hearne been holed in somewhere, in a cabin, resolved to spend his last days eking out an existence, and living on capital previously collected, the loss of some of his stores by plunder would probably have worried him almost to death. "How we respond to "losing" some of our resources for God's work depends upon whether we are on the move or waiting for our last stand.

-Eugene L. Feagin, Leadership-Vol. 10, #4.

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