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OPEN MIND
OPEN MIND An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or Practical rea...

OPPORTUNITY
OPPORTUNITY The Irish Potato Famine (1846-1851) resulted in a 30 percent drop in the population of the west of Ireland. The prolonged suffering of the Iri...

OPTIMISM
OPTIMISM I read about a schoolboy who brought home his report card. It was heavy with poor grades. "What have you to say about this?" asked his father. "O...

ORDERLINESS
ORDERLINESS Young Richard Sears was a railroad agent in Redwood, Minnesota when he discovered he could order watches from the manufacturer, then reship th...

ORDINARY
ORDINARY Chinese legend: A group of elderly, cultured gentlemen met often to exchange wisdom and drink tea. Each host tried to find the fines...

ORGANIZATION
ORGANIZATION Historians have related the heartwarming story of Abdul Kassem Ismael, the scholarly grand-vizier of Persia in the tenth century, and his lib...

ORIGINALITY
ORIGINALITY Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is no...

ORIGINS
ORIGINS Sign at a roadside stand New Jersey: "Eggs/Produce/Chicken." Charles Mathis in Catholic Digest, quoted in Reader's...

OVERCONFIDENCE
OVERCONFIDENCE Golf immortal Arnold Palmer recalls a lesson about overconfidence: It was the final hole of the 1961 Masters tournament, and I...

OVERDUE
OVERDUE The most overdue book in the history of library services was a copy of Febrile Diseases. It was checked out of the University of Cincinnati Medica...

OVERWHELMED
OVERWHELMED Shortly after I moved from Alaska to California, one of my studded snow tires went flat. The service-station attendant took a long look and th...

OWNERSHIP
OWNERSHIP I have held many things in my hand, and have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands that I still possess. ...

PAIN
PAIN We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities, and everyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they ...

PANTHEISM
PANTHEISM As pantheists readily admit, they believe that there is no real difference between good and evil "on the highest level of consciousness." The ab...

PARALYSIS
PARALYSIS Between the great things that we cannot do and the small things we will not do, the danger is that we shall do nothing. Adolph Mo...

PARDON
PARDON An item in the May 2, 1985, Kansas City Times reminds us of a story you may be able to use in an evangelistic message. The item had to do with the ...

PARENTING
PARENTING In the 1950s a psychologist, Stanton Samenow, and a psychiatrist, Samuel Yochelson, sharing the conventional wisdom that crime is caused by envi...

PASSION
PASSION I have but one passion; it is He, He only. Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf. -----------------------------...

PASTORING
PASTORING Three pastors got together for coffee one day and found all their churches had bat-infestation problems. "I got so mad," said one, "I took a sho...

PAST, living in
PAST, living in One man said to his friend: "Say, you look depressed. What are you thinking about?" "My future," was the quick answer....