"If I sold my house and my car, had a big garage sale and gave all my money to the church, would that get me into Heaven?" I asked the children in my Sunday School class.
"NO!" the children all answered.
"If I cleaned the church every day, mowed the yard, and kept everything neat and tidy, would that get me into Heaven?"
Again, the answer was, "NO!"
"Lower your expectations of earth. This isn't heaven, so don't expect it to be."
- Max Lucado
"I'm not busy ... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy."
- Garrison Keillor
The wonderful comic, Sam Levenson, had a great answer to anti-Semites.
"It's a free world and you don't have to like Jews, but if you DON'T, I suggest that you boycott certain Jewish products, like .....
The Wasserman Test for syphilis, Digitalis, discovered by Doctor Nuslin,
Insulin, discovered by Doctor Minofsky,
Chloral Hydrate, discovered by Doctor Lifreich,
The Schick Test for Diphtheria,
Vitamins, discovered by Doctor Funk,
Calvin Coolidge, the 30th president of the United States, was popularly known as "Silent Cal."
One time at a party, a woman walked up to him and said, "My husband bet me I couldn't get three words out of you."
Coolidge replied, "You lose."
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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