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Last updated 7/26/10
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RACE/RACISM
The Los Angeles riots were not caused by the Rodney King verdict. The Los Angeles riots were caused by rioters - Rush Limbaugh
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd - Bertrand Russell
I never believed in Santa Claus because I knew no white man would be coming into my neighborhood after dark - Dick Gregory
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character - Martin Luther King, Jr
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu walked by a construction site on a temporary sidewalk the width of one person. A white man appeared at the other end, recognized Tutu, and said, "I don't make way for gorillas." At which Tutu stepped aside, made a deep sweeping gesture, and said, "Ah, yes, but I do."
Some of us came over on the Mayflower, others came over on a slave ship, but we're all in the same boat now!
I miss the '70's where you had shows like 'The Jefferson's' and 'All In The Family' where Black people could be Black and white people could be white. Racists could be racists, and non-racists could be non-racists, but it was talked about - Queen Latiffa
Racism isn't born, folks, it's taught. I have a two-year-old son. You know what he hates? Naps! End of list - Dennis Leary
Racial superiority is a mere pigment of the imagination
READING
The man who never reads will never be read; he who never quotes will never be quoted. He who will not use the thoughts of other men’s brains, proves that he has no brains of his own – Charles Spurgeon
What enters your life determines what exits your life – Mike Murdock
The man who doesn’t read has no advantage over the man who can’t read – Mark Twain
If you read 20 minutes a day at average reading speed you will read around 20 200-page books in a year’s time. The average American only reads 1 book a year. How many read even one?
I also believe in the importance of listening to tapes. Tapes will help to trigger your imagination. Mary Kay Ash never gets into her car without turning on a motivational tape. The average American drives 12,000 miles to and from work each year. If you spent all of that drive time listening to tapes you could receive a Junior College education in around a year
Leaders are readers
I would never have more investment in my closet than in my bookshelf - Mike Murdock
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking - Albert Einstein
REALITY
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one – Albert Einstein
REDEMPTION
Robbers put the man in the ditch, Religion left the man in the ditch, Redemption pulled the man out of the ditch
Today He is not dressed with a towel around His waist but a garment to His feet
In the Old Testament sheep die for the shepherd; in the New Testament the shepherd dies for the sheep
A man fell in a pit and couldn’t get himself out:
HUMAN SYMPATHY said, “I feel for you down in the pit”
LOGIC said, “It’s likely that someone would fall into that pit”
RELIGION said, “Only bad people would fall into a pit”
MATHEMATICS calculated how he fell into the pit
SCIENCE measured how deep was the pit
FUNDAMENTALISM said, “You made the pit now sleep in it”
IRS asked if he were paying taxes on the pit
SELF-PITY said, “I’m in a worse pit than you”
CHARISMATIC said, “Just confess that you’re not in a pit”
OPTIMISM said, “You could be in a worse pit”
PESSIMISM said, “You will get in a worse pit”
PSYCHOLOGY said, “It’s normal to be in a pit”
POSSIBILITY THINKING said, “Visualize yourself out of the pit”
WELFARE said, “We can subsidize your pit”
BAPTISTS said, “Once in the pit always in the pit”
HUMANISM says, “We’re all in the same pit”
PHILOSOPHY said, “You can learn great lessons from the pit”
BUDDHISM said, “You’re in the pit because of your past life”
ASCETICISM said, “Stiffen your lip and endure the pit”
INDIFFERENCE said, “So what if you’re in the pit”
POLITICS asked if it were a Democrat or Republican pit
THE NEWS wanted to do a feature story on the pit
SKEPTICISM said, “I don’t really believe you’re in a pit”
CINICISM said, “What’s the motive behind your being in the pit?”
REDEMPTION took him by the hand and lifted him out of the pit!
RELATIONSHIPS
Dealing with people – 1) be friendly, 2) be fair, 3) be frank, 4) be firm – Robert Schuller
To that we can add, be forgiving
Zoological word erinaceous – has to do with the hedgehog/porcupine family. They have a lot of good points but get too close and you’ll pay for it. Prickly people. We need each other then needle each other
To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell – Thomas Merton
Anything unrecognized becomes uncelebrated. Anything uncelebrated becomes unrewarded. Anything unrewarded eventually exits your life – Mike Murdock
It’s more important to get along with people than to get ahead of them – John Maxwell
You can’t make the other fellow feel important in your presence if you secretly feel that he is a nobody – Les Giblin
The lone ranger becomes a very lonely ranger
There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull: How do you hang on to someone who won't stay? And how do you get rid of someone who won't go? - Danny DeVito
The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black at heart: mark and avoid him - Cicero
He drew a circle that shut me out - heretic, rebel, a thing to flout,
But Love and I had the wit to win: we drew a circle that took him in - Edwin Markham
Jesus prohibits a vertical approach to God that neglects a horizontal approach to people - Jack Hayford
No one can be wrong with man and right with God - Harry Emerson Fosdick
Human clay finds its moisture in relationships and will evaporate into dust without them - Beth Moore
The most important single ingredient in the formula for success is knowing how to get along with people - Theodore Roosevelt
I will pay more for the ability to deal with people than any other ability under the sun - John D. Rockefeller
RELIGION
Religion offers rules – Jesus offers rest
Religion whitewashes a man, redemption washes a man white
Religion often regards what God discards and discards what God regards
Pharisees are more interested in winning arguments than in winning souls
Paul said to “beware of dogs”, “dogmatic” denominational, doctrinal dogs
Religion takes something easy and makes it hard, takes something simple and makes it complicated, takes something free and makes it expensive
Methodist church was once persecuted for preaching on the streets. A century later they persecuted the Salvation Army. Why? For preaching on the streets
The Pharisee is more concerned about winning an argument than winning a soul
Religion’s emphasis is on what man does for God, Redemption’s is on what God has done for man
Religion says do, do, do – redemption says done, done, done
Everyone acknowledges the expertise of the trained professional until we come to theology. Then, everyone's an expert - Jack Hayford
In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion - Thomas Jefferson
He who steadily observes the moral precepts in which all religions concur, will never be questioned at the gates of heaven as to the dogmas in which they all differ - Thomas Jefferson
Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle - Thomas Jefferson
What all agree upon is probably right; what no two agree in most probably is wrong - Thomas Jefferson
REMNANT
Remnants come together to make a whole cloth. Every church has its remnant
There were ten Old Testament revivals. All broke out from a little remnant
REPENTANCE
When a man undertakes to repent toward his fellowmen, it is repenting straight up a precipice; when he repents toward law, it is repenting into the crocodile's jaws; when he repents toward public sentiment, it is throwing himself into a thicket of brambles and thorns; but when he repents toward God, he repents toward all love and delicacy. God receives the soul as the sea the bather, to return it again, purer and whiter than he took it – Henry Ward Beecher
Jesus was the first to respond to John’s altar service. If Jesus went forward what makes you so good that you can’t?
God can’t cover what we don’t uncover
Repentance means spelling it out and spilling it out
There’s a huge difference between penance, penitence and repentance
To five of the seven churches in Revelation Jesus says “repent or else…”
Don’t just squeeze a couple of eyedroppers in prayer and repentance – break the whole vase. That’s what Mary did
There are tears that are no more than the surface slush of an iceberg – E.M. Bounds
Jonah cried “Yet 40 days and Ninevah shall be destroyed”. God has set timeframes and dates for people to repent. The Word says of Jezebel – “And I gave her space to repent of her fornication, and she repented not” (Rev 2:21). “Space” there is the word chronos – a chronological order of time.
Don’t try to reprogram when you need to repent
Complacency leads to compromise and compromise leads to complicity with the world’s ways
Epitaph on gravestone in England – “I have sinned, I have repented, I has trusted, I have loved, I shall rest, I shall rise, I shall reign”
He can't acquit it if we don't quit it. If you did it, admit it
Though you cannot go back and make a brand new start, my friend,
Anyone can start from now and make a brand-new end
No matter how far you have gone on a wrong road, turn back - Turkish proverb
RESENTMENT
You will never get ahead of others as long as you are trying to get even with them
RESPECT
Whatever you respect will move toward you, whatever you disrespect will move away from you – Mike Murdock (that works in money, friends, pets, people, God, blessings, etc)
You can’t collect what you don’t respect – Mike Murdock
RESPECTABILITY
Though everyone has an equal right to speak, not all have earned an equal right to be taken seriously – Hubert Humphrey
RESPONSIBILITY
Responsibility is simply responding to His ability
I am responsible to people but not for them – John Maxwell
Don't measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability – John Wooden
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do – Edward Everett Hale
Many use alibis instead of abilities
This is a story about four people named Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done and Everybody was asked to do it. Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about that! After all, it was Everybody's job. Everybody thought Anybody could do it, but Nobody realized that Everybody wouldn't do it. It ended up that Everybody blamed Somebody because Nobody had wound up doing what Anybody could have done!
Nobody makes a greater mistake than he who does nothing because he could only do a little –Edmund Burke
You can’t assert your rights until you assume your responsibilities
If you want children to keep their feet on the ground, put some responsibility on their shoulders – Abigail Van Buren
Accountability breeds response-ability – Stephen Covey
No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself – William Penn
God gave us two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Success depends on which one you use. Heads you win, tails you lose
Take your life in your own hands and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame – Erica Jong
Mayor LaGuardia when he was a judge, charged a black man for shoplifting a $50 fine, then fined everyone in the courtroom $1 for letting conditions get to the point that a man would have to steal to get groceries for his family
All people are created equal in at least one respect – they are all given 24 hours to begin the day with. What they do with separates the successes from the failures
Count your duties name them one by one, and it will surprise you what the Lord wants done
There’s no such thing as shoulda, coulda or woulda. If you shoulda and you coulda you woulda – Pat Riley
Do you have a strong WILL or a strong WON’T?
We need to take PRIDE in our work. PRIDE can be broken down to mean Personal Responsibility in Daily Effort
We have got circulate if we want to percolate
To be born free is a great privilege – to die free is a great responsibility
Man blames accidents on fate but takes personal responsibility when he hits a hole in one
We have a Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor; we need a Statue of Responsibility in San Francisco Bay
Rights decrease while responsibilities increase the farther you climb in an organization. Too many want to assert their rights when they need to assume their responsibilities
When the Challenger exploded Quality Control warned that it was not ready for flight. Process said “wait” but production said “the show must go on”. The result was catastrophe
Count your duties, name them one by one,
And it will surprise you what the Lord wants done
When duty comes a knocking at your gate,
Welcome him in; for if you bid him wait,
He will depart only to come once more
And bring seven other duties to your door - Edwin Markum
REST
For fast-acting relief try slowing down – Lily Tomlin
There is a bed in the midst of this bedlam (Mat 11:28)
Mattress advertisement – where the rest is better and we’re better than the rest
In Christ – a life of rest for the rest of life
RESURRECTION
The empty tomb in Israel is the only tourist attraction where people go to see nothing
Best evidence of a living Lord is a living, loving, laughing, listing church
The resurrection is not something to believe in but Someone to believe in – “I am the resurrection and the life…”
"I claim to be an historian. My approach to Classics is historical. And I tell you that the evidence for the life, the death, and the resurrection of Christ is better authenticated than most of the facts of ancient history ..." – E. M. Blaiklock, Professor of Classics, Auckland University
Buried with King Tutankamen’s dead body was a piled wealth of $14 million. Buried talents – no value at all. King Tut’s tomb was full but his life was so empty. King Jesus’ tomb is empty but His life is so full! – RG Lee
After the resurrection Jesus appeared to:
A female disciple – Mary
A fallen disciple – Peter
2 frustrated disciples – Emmaus road
Some fearful disciples, hidden behind closed doors
A faithless disciple – Thomas
Which is the more difficult, to be born or to rise again; that which has never been, be, or that which has been, be again? Is it more difficult to come into being than to return to being? - J. Claude Evans
REVELATION
Revelations cause revolutions
It takes more than knowledge from college
God alone sees the heart, the heart alone sees God
REVENGE
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes – Abigail Van Buren
REVIVAL
You not deep, you asleep! – Ronnie Webb
We need revival – let’s seed revival
Revival is not important, it is imperative
W need a red hot, blood bought, God wrought, Heaven sought, devil fought, Bible taught, angel brought, faith caught revival
When you feel the pull of desire and the push of discontent you know you need revival
Let your discontent give vent to a heaven-sent, heart-rent, knee-bent, energy-spent, God-lent revival
Jesus described today’s church as “miserable and poor and blind and naked”. He was describing a spiritual nudist colony
We have become lax with Laodicean lukewarmness, laziness, laxity, lovelessness, lifelessness and limp, loose, lethargy. We need revival
We need revival for survival. For revival there must be His approval. The approval comes after the removal. The removal causes an arrival. The arrival brings an upheaval. The upheaval is the revival and the revival guarantees our survival – and then the whole cycle starts over again
Acts 3:19-21 shows repentance, refreshing, return, then restoration. First the showers then the Son. First the refreshing then the returning. First the outpouring then the appearing
I stepped up on a log where I could have a better view of the surging sea of humanity. The scene that then presented itself to my mind was indescribable. At one time I saw at least five hundred swept down in a moment as if a battery of a thousand guns had been opened upon them, and then immediately followed shrieks and shouts that rent the very heavens – James Finley, Cane Ridge Revival (1801)
Some revival campaigns are just “pains”
I don’t mind bottle-feeding babies, it’s just having to part the whiskers that I don’t like – Don Brankel
There are those who turn the helmet of salvation into a nightcap
Many are satisfied with just an occasional stirring. Like old Rip Van Winkle they just wake up for a few nights during the Fall revival then sleep soundly the rest of the year
Planning for revival goes with praying for revival. If we ask for something we can't possible accommodate, it can only mean we didn't expect it - Mario Murillo
Revival is the defeating of the local demonic authority by prayer - Mario Murillo
Eternity will reveal a long, sad history of revival near-misses - Mario Murillo
Revival is a constant state of repentance - Charles Finney
RIGHTEOUSNESS
In Bible days wedding garments were offered free of charge to the poor. That means the man without the wedding garment had rejected a free offer
I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right, and stand with him while he is right, and part with him when he goes wrong - Abe Lincoln
RISK
What I’ve dared I’ve willed; and what I’ve willed, I’ll do! – Melville
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail – Emerson
Mankind owns four things that are no good at sea, rudder, anchor, oars, and the fear of going down – Antonio Machado
Cornell University Researchers wanted to know what people most regret. After surveying university employees, students, retired professors, and nursing home residents, they found that twice as many people were bothered more by what they did not do rather than what they had done. Missed opportunities were the most common of all regrets. Most regrets were from those who were unwilling to take chances. They feared too much the short-term consequence
that failure would bring
I'm just glad it'll be Clark Gable who's falling on his face and not Gary Cooper – Gary Cooper, on his decision not to take the leading role in Gone With The Wind
Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat – Theodore Roosevelt
We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out – Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962
So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we' ll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet” – Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and H-P interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer
Everything that can be invented has been invented – Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him – Dwight D. Eisenhower
You’ll miss 100% of the shots you don’t take – Wayne Gretzky
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go – T. S. Eliot
Be risk takers not caretakers!
Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps – David Lloyd George
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly – Robert Schuller
A man dies still if he has done nothing, as one who has done much – Homer
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover – Mark Twain
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing – Helen Keller
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are, “It might have been!” – John Greenleaf Whittier from poem, “Maud Muller”
Take chances to make advances
A turtle can’t get ahead without sticking his neck out once in awhile
You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety - Abraham Maslow
It is better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life - Elizabeth Kenny
You have reached stagnation when all you ever exercise is caution - John Mason
When your chances are slim to none, go with slim
You don't concentrate on risk, you concentrate on results - Chuck Yeager
First you jump off the cliff and you build your wings on the way down - Ray Bradbury
Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die - Stan Dale
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to bloom - Anais Nin
The truth is that life is dangerous, damaging to your health, and will eventually kill you. So you might as well live life to the fullest - John Maxwell
ROMANCE
It takes finance to have romance
Did you hear of the guy who wrote a love letter every day to his sweetheart? She married the postman
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