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Last updated 7/25/10
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EASTER
When the Sun was up the Son was out!
ECONOMY
Israel got in trouble when they worshiped a gold bull – watch out for putting your trust in a “bull” market
I don’t mind that my son makes more money than I did on my first job. What disturbs me is that he’s only six, and it’s his allowance!
Why did God create Gentiles? Somebody had to pay retail – Van Crouch
EDUCATION
When you stop learning you stop leading
The more you learn, the more you earn
I never let my schooling interfere with my education – Mark Twain
Schools teach us what to think but not how to think – John Maxwell
If you want to change you output, you have to change your input – Zig Ziglar
Learn, earn and return – these are the three phases of life – Jack Balousek
The tassel is worth the hassle – Robert Schuller
The boy got five Fs on his report card and one D. Dad said, “Obviously he’s spending too much time on one subject”.
To get into Who’s Who you have to know what’s what
A B.A. degree adds an average of $1 million earnings in a lifetime, a professional degree, $4 million
Formal education will earn you a living, self-education will earn you a fortune
He knows so little and knows it so fluently!
In school they said, “Pie are squared. No, pie are round. Cornbread are squared” – Van Crouch
The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after – Newton D. Baker
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday – Abraham Lincoln
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance – Derek Bok
All who have meditated on the art of governing Mankind are convinced that the fate of empires depends on the educating of youth – Aristotle
52% of Harvard graduates in the 17th century became ministers
We need both information and inspiration. The first puts us in the know, the second puts us on the grow
Inspiration without education leads to frustration
Give one hour a day to something 6 days a week and you’ve amassed 312 hours of study in a year. You can do anything or learn anything if you only will commit the needed time to it
The first hour of the morning is the rudder for the rest of your day, so as you stretch your physical muscles when you crawl out of bed, you also need to stretch your mental and spiritual muscles
The only thing more painful than learning from experience is not learning from experience
It’s whatever you learn after you know it all that counts – John Wooden
There is no such thing as a full grown tree. The day a tree stops growing is the day it dies. Likewise in our minds and hearts. We have to keep growing. There is such a thing as growing old without getting old. Never quit your education regardless of how many degrees you may have
I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow - Woodrow Wilson
If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions? - Scott Adams
Smartness runs in my family. When I went to school I was so smart my teacher was in my class for five years - Gracie Allen
A university is a place where ancient tradition thrives alongside the most revolutionary ideas. Perhaps as no other institution, a university is simultaneously committed to the day before yesterday and the day after tomorrow - Ronald Reagan
Old principals never die, they just lose their faculties
You need to get (or stay) smarter than the next person, which means that you have to be committed, in some form, to school for life - Tom Peters
He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me - Thomas Jefferson
We're trying to build a university our football team can be proud of - former Oklahoma U. president
Curiosity is more important than knowledge - Albert Einstein
EFFORT
Every day do something that will inch you closer to a better tomorrow
Folks who never do any more than they get paid for, never get paid for any more than they do – Elbert Hubbard
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second – William James
If you run in place you can expect to get passed
Unless a man undertakes more than he possibly can do, he will never do all that he can – Henry Drummond
You only give 75% today, you can’t give 125% tomorrow to make up for it – John Wooden
There are no traffic jams on the second mile – Zig Ziglar
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little “extra” – Zig Ziglar
EMOTION
Princess Diana/ she appeared so beautiful on the outside but the autopsy showed that she bled to death on the inside
People don’t make you angry, they just reveal the anger that is already within you
Run your emotions or you will be run by them – Burke Hedges
Resentment does as much good as drinking poison then waiting for the other person to die
Half of our mistakes are caused by feeling when we ought to think, the other half from thinking when we ought to feel
ENCOURAGEMENT
When down in the mouth, remember Jonah. Everything came out all right in the end
Praise makes good people better and bad people worse – Thomas Fuller
Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul – John Maxwell
Keep chin up and knees down! – Dr. Erdman
One buffalo to another after a cowboy told him how mangy, ugly and stinky the buffalo was – “Did I just hear a discouraging word?”
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being – Von Goethe
A minute of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
ENGLISH LANGUAGE
It is tough for kids right from the start. Think of how we spell our numbers. One doesn’t have a “wuh” letter in it anywhere and it has an “e” that you don’t even need. Two on the other hand has a “wuh” in it that you don’t use. Weird. We drive on parkways and park on driveways. Note the different pronunciations for bomb, tomb, comb, home, some, from, Tom, back to bomb
Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham? If the plural of
tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2 indices?
Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what language do people: Recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a wise guy are opposites?
You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on. English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are out, they are invisible.
Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"?
ENTHUSIASM
Ignorance on fire is better than knowledge on ice – Burke Hedges
Burke Hedges’ motto – “Fire, ready, aim”.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm – Vince Lombardi
People who never get carried away should be – Malcolm Forbes
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life – Edward Butler
Enthusiasm is the yeast that raises the dough – Paul Meyer
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas - Henry Ford
In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions - Henry Ward Beecher
Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn - John Wesley
A salesman minus enthusiasm is just a clerk - Harry Banks
One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life - Edward Butler
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel - Carl Buehner
ENVY
There is a fable that Satan's agents were failing in their various attempts to draw into sin a holy man who lived as a hermit in the desert of northern Africa. Every attempt had met with failure; so Satan, angered with the incompetence of his subordinates, became personally involved in the case. He said, "The reason you have failed is that your methods are too crude for one such as this. Watch this." He then approached the holy man with great care and whispered softly in his ear, "Your brother has just been made Bishop of Alexandria." Instantly the holy man's face showed that Satan had been successful: a great scowl formed over his mouth and his eyes tightened up. "Envy," said Satan, "is often our best weapon against those who seek holiness
Envy provides the mud that failure throws at success - John Mason
Every other sin hath some pleasure annexed to it, or will admit of an excuse: envy alone wants both - Robert Burton
Envy is a littleness of soul, which cannot see beyond a certain point, and if it does not occupy the whole space feels itself exclude - William Hazlitt
Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive - Havelock Ellis
Envy is the art of counting the other fellow's blessings instead of your own - Harold Coffin
ETERNAL SECURITY
The Baptist Barber gave one guy such a close shave that no stubble had returned in three weeks. He went back and asked if the beard would ever grow again to which the barber said, “Well you know how we Baptist barbers believe, once shaved always…”
ETERNITY
He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity is wise for a moment, but a fool forever – Tillotson
ETHICS
The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants – General Omar Bradley
EVANGELISM
God lives in a mobile home – YOU
Jesus wasn’t in the Tabernacle or the Temple but in the Towns talking, teaching, touching
We can’t win the world by ringing church-bells but we can by ringing doorbells and prayer-bells
Prayer without evangelism is an arrow shot nowhere
Why do we sing “Onward Christian Soldiers” when most of the army has gone AWOL?
Conscience tells me to go; Calvary compels me to go; Pentecost propels me to go
Instead of “rescuing the perishing”, too often we are busy rescuing the perishables. It has become a job for us in just keeping the “saved” saved
2/3rds of God’s Name is “Go”! and half of Satan’s name is “sat”. And remember that the Gospel has a GO in it. So we need some sold out go-go girls and go-go guys to “go into all the world and preach” Christ
We need more knowing and more growing but even more going
In America today Islam is growing at the rate of 16%, Hinduism at 12% but Christianity is only growing at the rate of 9%
Evangelism is to the church what CO2 is to carbonated water. A church without the fizz of evangelism will soon fizzle out
Evangelism and discipleship are not competitors, they are companions
At the end of World War II, Robert Woodruff, president of the Coca-Cola Company from 1923 to 1955, had a mission. "In my generation," he declared, "it is my desire that everyone in the world have a taste of Coca-Cola." With a vision and dedication rarely matched in corporate American culture, Woodruff and his colleagues spanned the globe with their soft drink. Why is it all right for people to feel that passionate about a soft drink but not about taking Christ to the world?
We must either evangelize or fossilize!
Here’s Christ’s method – when he reached out to the woman at the well. He 1) broke the rules, 2) broke the ice, 3) broke the news
When an emergency vehicle screams by everything else is required to pull over to the side of the road and stop. Evangelism is an emergency mission. All else must come to a stand still.
There is an urgency in this emergency
We missed him. Our chance to change things came and passed and we did not know it was there. A dark-skinned little boy sat through Sunday School classes for three years at a great Baptist Church (First Church, San Antonio) but someone missed him. His name was Sirhan Sirhan, and at age 24 he shot and killed Senator Robert Kennedy. In a welter of words and the shudder of grief throughout our nation, the persistent thought keeps recurring—someone missed him. (Dr. Jimmy Allen, former pastor of First Baptist Church, San Antonio, Texas in Pulpit Helps, May, 1991
Emergency rooms are made for bloody people. They are made for messy situations and so is the church
“Worship is not a greater calling than evangelism (or to replace evangelism) – Imagine the captain of the boat calling for rescuers to save drowning sailors only to have his crew bow down and say, “Praise you captain. Glory be to the captain!” True worship would be in their obedience to the Captain’s word – Rescue the perishing!” – Ray Comfort
The world is sick of the abominable showman that has gone to the sawdust trail to find a gold dust trail, playing the crusade charade
The evangelist’s mission is one of discovery and recovery
Spend to save! People will empty their pockets for a live project but not for a dead church savings account
“Well you’ll never get in our church!” Fine! God hasn’t been able to get into your church so why would I think I could?
Being saved means being sent
Don’t miss you church on the way to your church (Acts 3, Luke 10)
The church is not a hideout
If 10,000 people live around your church there will be an average of four of them to die each week. Winning one soul a month doesn’t quite cut it
He didn’t place us here to play second fiddle but to blow a trumpet
Prayer without evangelism is an arrow shot nowhere
Jesus said to enter into the closet but He didn’t say to stay there. We need to enter in then interact
Some read our tracts, all watch our tracks
Some want to be His lawyers, arguing His case, but while He sometimes needs apologists, He needs apostle more. We do not have a secret to be hidden but a story to be heralded - Vance Havner
EVOLUTION
Order has never yet been created out of chaos. To believe that would be like believing that a tornado could go through a junkyard and a 747 jet come out on the other side
There is no science without criticism. Any science that weathers the criticism and survives is a better theory for it – Charles Thaxton, chemist
EXAMPLE
When I saw the unwearied patience, that unflagging zeal, those enlightened sons of Africa, I became a Christian at his side, though he never spoke to me about it – Stanley, on observing David Livingstone
There is just one way to bring up a child in the way he should go, and that is to travel that way yourself – Abraham Lincoln
Your actions speak so loudly, that I cannot hear what you say – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Don’t worry that your children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you – Robert Fulghum
The church has the unique ability to tarnish the reputation of Him who never did anything wrong – Tommy Tenney
People do what people see
EXCELLENCE
The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little word “extra” – Zig Ziglar
No one remembers how fast you did a job, but how well you did it
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way – Booker T. Washington
It was said of the prophet Daniel that he had an “excellent spirit”
Excellence does a common thing in an uncommon way
Every job is a self-portrait of the person who did it. Autograph your work with excellence
Mediocrity is doing things sort of right; excellence is doing them exactly right
Hit the ball over the fence and you can take your time going around the bases
If you write a better book, preach a better sermon or build a better mousetrap than your neighbor, the world will make a beaten path to your door – Emerson
The best thing you can do is do the best thing you can do; the best thing you can do is do the thing you do the best
If you are a 6 you will only draw 6’s or less. Move up to the higher bracket. Decide to be an 8 or 9, then a 10 and you will begin to attract 8’s, 9’s and 10’s around you
Excellency is not only doing things right but doing right things
How is it that we never have time to do something right the first time, but we always have time to do it over?
If he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who have never known neither victory nor defeat – Teddy Roosevelt
If the individual is failing you need a new player, but if the whole team is failing you need a new coach. The leader must examine his own level of excellence
Don’t just seek to be better than your contemporaries or your predecessors, seek to be better than yourself
Things ignored deteriorate, things inspected improve
Mediocrity is a region bounded on the North by indecision, the South by compromise, the East by negative thinking and the West by a lack of vision
Men are developed the same way gold is mined. Several tons of dirt must be moved to get an ounce of gold. But you don’t go looking for dirt. You go looking for gold – Dale Carnegie
John Maxwell has what he calls a “daily dozen deeds for dreamers”. These will go along with our study under the letter X – “examine, exchange, expose, express, expect, exercise, extract, exclude, exceed, exhibit, explore, extend”
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing – Harriet Braiker
Whatever you think is good enough for now, add 10% to it
EXCITEMENT
Excitement is like a forest fire; you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away – Denis Waitley
Revival brings excitement – goose bumps, pulpit thumps, pew jumps and Forrest Gumps. Don’t let it bother you. It’s easier to cool down a fanatic than to warm up a corpse
Church ought to be an invigorating experience. At the close of one service the pastor asked his people to greet the visitors and tell them their names. One lady extended her hand to as visitor and said, “Hi, I’m Gladys Dunn”, to which the bored guest replied, “and I am glad’s done too”
There are a lot of folks who shout like Comanche Indians on Saturday at the ball game then sit like wooden Indians on Sunday at church
If the saints would show up, the backsliders fess up, the tithers pay up, the dry bones shake up, the sleepers wake up and the preachers fire up, God would stand up and send a mighty revival
If the church would stand up the world would sit up and take notice
There is no high higher than the Mighty High!
Excitement is contagious, but so is a lack of excitement
If the sinners are sinnin’ how come the saints aren’t saint’n? – Bob Harrington
Some churches start out with fizz and end up with fizzle. They start with a fever and end with a chill. They sizzle then fizzle, fry then freeze, shooting up like rockets then falling down like rocks
Weed out the dullards; nurture the nuts - Tom Peters
EXCUSES
A man may fall many times but he won't be a failure until he says someone pushed him – Elmer Letterman
He who excuses himself accuses himself – Gabriel Meurier
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don’t believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can’t find them, make them – George Bernard Shaw
Don't make excuses; make good – Elbert Hubbard
We are all manufacturers. Making good, making trouble, or making excuses
The worst buy is an alibi
All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you – Dr. Wayne Dyer
Blame throwers are worse than flame throwers
The next time you feel like GOD can't use you, just remember...Noah was a drunk, Abraham was too old, Isaac was a daydreamer, Jacob was a liar, Leah was ugly, Joseph was abused, Moses had a stuttering problem, Gideon was afraid, Samson had long hair and was a womanizer, Rahab was a prostitute, Jeremiah and Timothy were too young, David had an affair and was a murderer, Elijah was suicidal, Isaiah preached naked, Jonah ran from God, Naomi was a widow, Job went bankrupt, Peter denied Christ, The Disciples fell asleep while praying, Martha worried about everything, Mary Magdalene was, well you know, The Samaritan woman was divorced, more than once, Zaccheus was too small, Paul was too religious, Timothy had an ulcer...AND Lazarus was dead! So no more excuses now. God can use you to your full potential. Besides you aren't the message, you are just the messenger.
You can make money or you can make excuses. You just can’t make both at the same time.
There are reasons and there are results. And reasons don’t count! – Burke Hedges
EXERCISE
We can’t afford to not exercise. Endorphins are natural legal “uppers”. A few minutes of running reaps hours of producing.
EXPECTATION
Ben Franklin's quote: "Blessed is the one who expects nothing, for he shall receive it."
I heard a story the other day about a man who went to the fortuneteller who looked in the crystal ball and said, "Oh, my. This is not good. I look in this ball and see that you will be poor and unhappy until you're 45 years old." The guy said, "Oh, that's terrible. Well, then what's going to happen?" The fortuneteller said, "You'll get used to it."
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me – George Bernard Shaw
EXPERIENCE
Experience enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it, again
Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment
It is necessary for you to learn from others' mistakes. You will not live long enough to make them all yourself – H. G. Rickover
Experience is the name everyone gives to his mistakes – Oscar Wilde
It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts – John Wooden, Hall of Fame basketball coach
Experience is the hardest teacher. It gives you the test first and the lesson afterward
The arrogance of the young is a direct result of not having known enough consequences. The turkey that every day greedily approaches the farmer who tosses him grain is not wrong. It is just that no one ever told him about Thanksgiving – Harry Golden
There is only one thing worse than learning from experience, and that is not learning from experience - Archibald MacLeish
When a person with experience meets a person with money, the person with experience will get the money, and the person with money will get the experience!
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