When they first manufactured golf balls, they made the covers smooth. Then it was discovered that after a ball had been roughed up, one could get more distance out of it. So they started manufacturing them with dimpled covers. So it is with life; it takes some rough spots in your life to make you…
Author: Alan Holden
Heartbroken
Heartbrokenness has a purpose. A rabbi was asked a question by a pupil, referring to Deuteronomy 6:6–“And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be upon thy heart.” “Why is it said this way?” asked the pupil. “Why are we not told to place them in our heart?” The rabbi answered that it…
Bible
Not all biblical promises carry an unconditional guarantee. God’s Word is like a highway sign: you don’t have to pay any attention to it if you don’t care what happens to you. One truth from the Bible is worth more than all the wisdom of man. The value of the Bible is not knowing it,…
Backsliding
Backsliding is the easier thing to do–you do nothing. Backsliding begins in the knees. The devil will be satisfied with you if you are satisfied with him. People seldom lose their religion by a blowout–it is usually a slow leak. Backsliding begins when knee-bending stops. Backsliders usually are guilty of criticism, condemnation, and complaining. When…
Adversity
God gives burdens, also shoulders. –Yiddish proverb Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. –Helen Keller When you are face to face with a difficulty, you are up against a discovery. –Lord Kelvin In order to realize the worth of the anchor, we need to feel…
Actions
The person who rows the boat usually doesn’t have the time to rock it. Gardens are not made by singing “Oh, how beautiful,” and sitting in the shade. –Rudyard Kipling You don’t learn to hold your own world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well-hammered yourself. –George Bernard Shaw <<Back<<
Accidents
The worst thing about accidents in the kitchen is you usually have to eat them. A shin is a device invented for finding furniture in the dark. <<Back<<
Anger
I will not permit any man to narrow or degrade my soul by making me hate him. An angry man is seldom reasonable; a reasonable man is seldom angry. Don’t be angry with the people who are smarter than you–it isn’t their fault. Speak when you are angry and it will be the best speech…
Ambition
Every person should take some time daily to look at the road map of his ambitions. Easy is the enemy of ambition. The father of success is work–the mother of achievement is ambition. The ambition of many dieters is to be weighed and found wanting. <<Back<<