CALLING
CALLING
In the eleventh century, King Henry III of Bavaria grew tired of court life and the pressures of being a monarc...
CALLOUSNESS
CALLOUSNESS
If you live in a graveyard too long you stop crying when someone dies.
Traditional.
CALM
CALM
Here is an instruction on how to react to hungry pythons, as given to Peace Corpsmen serving in Brazil -- "Remembe...
CALVINISM
CALVINISM
When a Calvinist says that all things happen according to the predestination of God, he speaks the truth, and...
CARELESSNESS
CARELESSNESS
For want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the r...
CARNAL
CARNAL
What is carnality? According to the Greek dictionary, it means to have the nature and characteristics of the fle...
CAUGHT
CAUGHT
Robert Wood Johnson, the former chairman of Johnson & Johnson, was known to be a terror when he inspected his pl...
CAUTION
CAUTION
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POEMS
Oppor...
CELEBRATION
CELEBRATION
Author Leo Buscaglia tells this story about his mother and their "misery dinner." It was the night after hi...
CERTAINTY
CERTAINTY
When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not h...
CHALLENGE
CHALLENGE
It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.
Edmund Hillary.
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CHANCE
CHANCE
All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
CHANGE
CHANGE
Everything continues in a state of rest unless it is compelled to change by forces impressed upon it.
CHARACTER
CHARACTER
Character is much better kept than recovered.
Thomas Paine.
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CHARITABLE GIVING
CHARITABLE GIVING
If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune; or what is better, the greatness of thy sou...
CHASTITY
CHASTITY
A beautiful blond senior shares: "When we date, we start giving gifts, like flowers or candy. When a couple be...
CHEATING
CHEATING
"Marathoner Loses by a Mustache." So read the headline of a recent Associated Press story. It appeared that Ab...
CHILDLIKENESS
CHILDLIKENESS
Robert Fulghum wrote in the Kansas City Times, "Most of what I really need to know about how to live, and...
CHILDREN
CHILDREN
There is a stage in a child's life at which it cannot separate the religious from the merely festal chara...
CHILDREN, raising
CHILDREN, raising
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.