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FORGET
FORGET It's very human to begin looking for something and then forget what you're looking for. Tennessee Williams tells a story of someone who f...

FORGIVENESS
FORGIVENESS Not long before she died in 1988, in a moment of surprising candor in television, Marghanita Laski, one of our best-known secular humanists an...

FORGIVENESS, Accepting
FORGIVENESS, Accepting Sen. Mark Hatfield recounts the following history: James Garfield was a lay preacher and principal of his denominational college. T...

FORGIVE AND FORGET
FORGIVE AND FORGET Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, was reminded one day of a vicious deed that someone had done to her years before. But ...

FOUNDATION
FOUNDATION The great architect Frank Lloyd Wright was given the challenge of building the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, one of the most earthquake-prone cities...

FOURTH OF JULY
FOURTH OF JULY French writer Alexis de Tocqueville, after visiting America in 1831, said, "I sought for the greatness of the United States in her commodio...

FREEDOM
FREEDOM The divine "scheme of things," as Christianity understands it, is at once extremely elastic and extremely rigid. It is elastic, in that it include...

FRIENDSHIP
FRIENDSHIP What is a friend? Friends are people with whom you dare to be yourself. Your soul can be naked with them. They ask you to put on nothing, only ...

FRIVOLITY
FRIVOLITY Don\'t refuse to go on an occasional wild goose chase. That is what wild geese are made for. Henry Haskins, Meditations in Wa...

FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT
FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT Every Christian will bear spiritual fruit. Somewhere, sometime, somehow. Otherwise that person is not a believer. Every born-again ind...

FRUSTRATION
FRUSTRATION It is said of one of the famous composers that he had a rebellious son who used to come in late at night after his father and mother had gone ...

FULFILLMENT
FULFILLMENT In his book Facing Loneliness, J. Oswald Sanders writes, "The round of pleasure or the amassing of wealth are but vain attempts to escape from...

FUNDAMENTALISM
FUNDAMENTALISM Amazing that I have nothing for this area!

FUNDAMENTALS
FUNDAMENTALS Race car driver Bill Vukovich won the famed Indianapolis 500 race in 1953 and 1954, a record of success few other driver...

FUND RAISING
FUND RAISING No illustrations yet. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comme...

FUNERAL
FUNERAL The poet, James Whitcomb Riley, has a poem in which he tells of the death of a worker in a shop. He pictures his fellow workmen standing around on...

FURY
FURY For hardy whalers, no ocean was too wide to cross in pursuit of their mighty prizes. In 1819, more than a dozen ships where laun...

FUTILITY
FUTILITY One night a thief broke into the single-room apartment of French novelist Honore de Balzac. Trying to avoid waking Balzac, the intruder quietly p...

FUTURE
FUTURE Theoretically, television may be feasible, but I consider it an impossibility--a development which we should waste little time dreaming about.

GAMBLING
GAMBLING Human beings are incurable optimists. They believe they have a pretty good chance to win a lottery, but that there is hardly any chance of their ...