The best way to keep from stepping on other people’s toes is to put yourself in their shoes. Some of the best arguments are spoiled by people who know what they are talking about. The important thing is not how fast you are going, but where you are going. It is always easier to hate…
Author: Alan Holden
Truth
Beware of the half-truth–you may have gotten the wrong half. Beauty is mind deep. A lot of stuff that passes for food for thought these days is nothing but the baloney of propaganda. He who says he enjoys a cold shower in the morning will also lie about other things. Christianity helps us face the…
Trouble
Bearing your cross means suffering for your Savior, not for you sins. Suffering can be like a magnet that draws the Christian closer to Christ. The world’s most disappointed people are those who get what’s coming to them. Those who never take time to mourn never have time to heal. A toothache is a pain…
Trials
Often the same thing that makes one person bitter makes another better. The same sun melts ice and hardens clay. Disappointments are His appointments–so put Him between you and your circumstances. God will take care of what you go through; you take care of how you go through it. There are two ways we can…
Tongue
Anybody who thinks talk is cheap never argued with a traffic cop. Not to speak ill requires only silence. It takes a child two years to learn to talk—it takes a man all his life to learn how to keep his mouth shut. A bit of love is the only bit that will put a…
Tomorrow
Always put off until tomorrow what you should not do at all. Never let yesterday use up too much of today. Help others today and God will help you tomorrow. You don’t get much by starting tomorrow. The man who does his best today will be hard to beat tomorrow. Tomorrow is the busiest day…
Time
The longer you live, the quicker you can live a year. A supermarket is a place where you can spend an hour trying to find instant coffee. Nothing arrives more slowly and passes more quickly than a vacation. When one takes time to be better, he will enjoy better times. How time changes things—nearly every…
Thinking
The average man has sixty-six pounds of muscle, forty pounds of bone, and three and a half pounds of brain—which seems to explain a lot of things. I not only use all the brains I have but all that I can borrow. Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. It’s the quick thinkers…
Temptation
He who would not eat forbidden fruit must stay away from the forbidden tree. The best way to escape evil is to pursue good. Anybody who thinks talk is cheap never argued with a traffic cop. To master temptation, let Christ master you. Don’t keep your eye on temptation while praying not to be led…
Temperance
Temperance is the nurse of chastity. A night club is a place where the tables are reserved and patrons many times are not. Alcohol kills the living and preserves the dead. He that is a drunkard is a candidate for all vice. Intemperance is voluntary madness. The true worth of a man is to be…