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| Search Results | Category |
|---|---|
| Love Maturity
Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'
-Erich Fromm
| Philosophy |
| Irish Spring
Whats Irish and comes out in the spring?
Paddy O'Furniture!
| Humor |
| Love One Another
John 15:12-13
"This is My commandment, that you love one another, just as I have loved you. "Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends.
| Bible |
| April 5th 1984
On this day in 1984, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar breaks the great Wilt Chamberlain's all-time career scoring record of 31, 419 by two points. (31,421)
| Sports Facts |
| Success
The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people.
-Theodore Roosevelt
| Philosophy |
| He has Risen
Matthew 28:6
He is not here; He has risen, as He said [He would do]. Come, see the place where He lay.
| Bible |
| Country Songs
What do you get when you play a country song backwards?
You get you house, tractor, wife, and dog back.
| Humor |
| April 4th 1974
On this day in 1974, Hank Aaron ties Babe Ruth's home run record by hitting his 714th run.
| Sports Facts |
| Excellence
If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
-Colin Powell
| Philosophy |
| The Tomb
Matthew 27:59-60
And Joseph took the body and [q]rolled it up in a clean linen cloth used for swathing dead bodies
And laid it in his own fresh (undefiled) tomb, which he had hewn in the rock; and he rolled a big boulder over the door of the tomb and went ...
| Bible |
| Blind Date
"How was your blind date?" a college student asked her roommate.
"Terrible!" answered the roommate. "He showed up in his 1932 Rolls Royce."
"Wow! That's a very expensive car! What's so bad about that?"
"He was the original owner."
| Humor |
| April 3rd 1936
On this day in 1936, the shortest boxing bout with gloves lasts a mere 10 seconds. Joe Louis won through a knockout against Max Schmeling.
| Sports Facts |
| Deceit
In a time of universal deceit- telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
-George Orwell
| Philosophy |
| Good Friday
Matthew 27:50
And Jesus cried again with a loud voice and gave up His spirit.
| Bible |
| Amish Life
What do you call an Amish guy with his hand up a horse's butt?
A mechanic!
| Humor |
| April 2nd 1931
On this day in 1931, a teenage girl strikes out both Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig in an exhibition game held in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
| Sports Facts |
| Risks
If you take no risks, you will suffer no defeats. But if you take no risks, you win no victories.
-Richard M. Nixon
| Philosophy |
| Bread of Life
John 6:35,54
"“I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty…. whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day”
| Bible |
| Differences
What's the difference between light and hard?
You an go to sleep with the light on.
| Humor |
| April 1st 1972
On this day in 1972, Major league Baseball Players stage their first collective strike.
| Sports Facts |
| Lighthouses
We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining - they just shine.
-Dwight L. Moody
| Philosophy |
| Repent in Dust and Ashes
Job 42:5-6
I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear, but now my eye sees you; therefore I despise myself, and repent in dust and ashes.”
| Bible |
| Will to Live
A man went to his lawyer and said "I would like to make a will but I don't know exactly how to go about it."
The lawyer says "No problem, leave it all to me".
The man looks somewhat upset ... "Well I knew you were going to take the biggest slice, but ...
| Humor |
| Respect
The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.
-William Lyon Phelps
| Philosophy |
| Buttons Falling
This morning as I was buttoning my shirt, a button fell off.
After that, I picked up my briefcase, and the handle fell off.
Then I went to open the door, and the doorknob fell off.
I went to get into my car, and the door handle came off in my hand.
Now ...
| Humor |