RELIGIONS OR UNIVERSALISM
RELIGIONS OR UNIVERSALISM
Hence we find in non-Christian religions a restless sense of the hostility of the powers of the universe; an undefined feeling o...
RELIGION AND HEALTH
RELIGION AND HEALTH
People who practice their religious faith regularly may be getting some earthly benefits: They appear to be healthier compared to peop...
RELIGION, empty
RELIGION, empty
Let's accompany the British journalist David Pryce-Jones to Hereford Cathedral. While showing the cathedral to a pair of foreign gues...
RELIGION, irrelevance of
RELIGION, irrelevance of
When in comes to belief in God, Canada's young people are a lot like their elders, but they view religion as relatively unim...
REMEMBER
REMEMBER
It is gratitude that prompted an old man to visit an old broken pier on the eastern seacoast of Florida. Every Friday night, until his death in 1...
REMORSE
REMORSE
Sarah was rich. She had inherited twenty million dollars. Plus she had an additional income of one thousand dollars a day.
That'...
RENEWAL
RENEWAL
Dr. J. Elder Cumming contended that "in almost every case the beginning of new blessing is a new revelation of the character of God--more beautifu...
REPENTANCE
REPENTANCE
If we put off repentance another day, we have a day more to repent of, and a day less to repent in.
Source Unknown.
REPETITION
REPETITION
There is nothing so absurd but if you repeat it often enough people will believe it.
Dr. William James, the Father of Modern Psyc...
REPLY
REPLY
William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State in Woodrow Wilson's Cabinet, was interviewing a man who was seeking a diplomatic post in China. Brya...
REPUTATION
REPUTATION
In his book, I Almost Missed The Sunset, Bill Gaither writes:
Gloria and I had been married a couple of years. We were teaching sc...
RESEARCH
RESEARCH
Finagle's Rules for Scientific Research:
1. Do not believe in miracles--rely on them.
2. Experiments must be repro...
RESENTMENT
RESENTMENT
Camels may build up a pressure cooker of resentment toward human beings until the lid suddenly blows off and they go berserk. In Asia, when a c...
RESOLUTION
RESOLUTION
Our lives are fields that primarily contain weeds. We cannot produce strawberries. We can mow the weeds, but that effort alone will never produ...
RESOLUTIONS
RESOLUTIONS
Resolved, That I will do whatsoever I think to be most to the glory of God, and my own good, profit, and pleasure, in the whole of my duration...
RESOLVE
RESOLVE
The final draft of the Emancipation Proclamation was taken to Abraham Lincoln at noon on January 1, 1863. Twice the president picked up his pen to...
RESOURCES
RESOURCES
It was 1916, and Hattie Green was dead. Hattie's life is a sad demonstration of what it is like to be among the living dead. When Hattie di...
RESPECT
RESPECT
Clark Clifford shares this reminiscence of his former boss, Harry S. Truman: Every morning at 8:30 the President would have a staff meeting. One ...
RESPONSIBILITY
RESPONSIBILITY
When Queen Victoria was a child, she didn't know she was in line for the throne of England. Her instructors, trying to prepare her for...
REST
REST
According to a Greek legend, in ancient Athens a man noticed the great storyteller Aesop playing childish games with some little boys. He laughed and...