Reputation is for time; character is for eternity. A company is known by the people it employs. The most destructive acid in the world is found in our sour disposition. No one raises his reputation by lowering others. You cannot build reputation on what you are going to do. Glass, china, and reputation are equally…
Author: Alan Holden
Repentance
Repentance means not only a heart broken for sin but from sin. Many people in mending their ways use very thin threads. Repentance is not only saying, “I’m sorry.” It is also saying, “I’m through.” Some so-called penitential crying is only hypocritical lying. To be good, you must first look and see that you are…
Religion
Religion should have no place in your life unless it has first place. A religion not worth exporting is not worth keeping at home. The man whose religion costs him nothing pays for what he gets. The person who argues most about religion usually has the least of it. Some people make a cloak out…
Profanity
Profanity is the use of strong words by weak people. Swearing is a lazy man’s way of trying to be emphatic. Profanity is an outward sign of stupidity. Profanity is evidence of the lack of sufficient vocabulary and brains. <<Back<<
Procrastination
Very few people are fast enough to keep up with all their good intentions. On the bypass of by and by, man arrived at the conclusion of never. Promises are like snowballs—they are easy to make but hard to keep. Never put off until tomorrow what you feel like doing today—tomorrow it may be against…
Principles
It’s possible to do the right thing for the wrong reasons. It’s never right to do wrong, and it’s never wrong to do right. Every day every Christian must choose among progression, discretion, and retrogression. The person with small principles draws small interest. When it comes to a solid principle, it’s better to be a…
Pride
A golfer has one advantage over the fisherman—he doesn’t have to show anything to prove it. He who has too much brass seldom has the necessary polish. The reason some computers run into trouble is that some of the punch cards think that they are holier than the rest. The most conceited man in the…
Prejudice
Accurate knowledge is the basis of correct opinion; the want of it makes the opinions of many people of little value. A lot of people will be unhappy in heaven when they discover that it is not the exclusive property of one denomination. The longest leap in the world is to jump to a conclusion….
Parents
A father is generally happier to have his child look like him than act like him. It ought to be the other way around. Most fathers try to bring up their sons to be as good a man as they meant to be . It’s hard to train a child in a way the parents…
Optimism
There is no sure thing as bad weather—there are just different kinds of good weather. It’s just as easy to look for the good things in life as the bad. An optimist looks at an oyster and expects to find a pearl—the pessimist looks at the oyster and expects ptomaine poisoning. The worst pest in…