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He who would be a great artist must not follow low models. The artist must have a perfect model to copy; if he does not reach to it, he will reach far further than if he had an inferior model to work by. When a man once realizes his own ideal, it is all over with him. A great painter once had finished…

Christians, never be satisfied with being merely saved. Up with you! Away! Off! Go onward to the high mountains, to the clearer light, to the brighter joy! If saved, and brought, like the shipwrecked mariner, to shore, is that enough? Yes, for the moment it is enough to warrant the purest satisfaction…

A man who is in the sea, deep down under the water, taking a plunge, does not feel the weight of the water. But bring him out on the shore, put a great tub of water on his head, and see what a weight that is to him. So, while a man is in sin as his element, it is no burden to him. But when he is out…

My observation of personal character has been somewhat wide, and I cannot help bearing my testimony that I am greatly afraid of men who make loud professions of superior sanctity. I have had the misfortune to have known, on one or two occasions, superfine brethren, who were, in their own ideas, far above…

When a man ran in the Grecian games, if he had run halfway, and passed most of his fellows, and had then turned to look round and to rejoice over the distance which he had already covered, he would have lost the race. Suppose he had commenced singing his own praises, and said, “I have come down the hill,…

When Lee Ann Walker became aware that she was in violation of a new rule put into place by the USGA and R&A, she reported the infraction to officials and added 58 penalty strokes to her score at the 2019 Senior LPGA Championship. https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2019/10/16/lee-anne-walker-shoots-127-senior-lpga-penalty-strokes/40327737/…

11-year-old David Marcovici is passionate about orchids. He is not the only one. Orchid lovers really love their orchids. Many of them describe their hobby as an addiction. It even has a name, Orchidelirium. Orchid collectors travel far, pay top dollar, and are looking for rare specimens, rescuing discarded…

Ross Edgley’s long swim in the sea set a record for the longest in history. He swam completely around Great Britain’s 1,791-mile coastline. Edgley swam up to 12 hours a day, eating and sleeping on a support boat. He endured 37 jellyfish stings, a suspected torn shoulder, an open neck wound caused by…

Tim Tebow is playing for the Binghamton Rumble Ponies, the top Double-A team of the NY Mets. Tim said, “There’s so many other things that I could be doing that are a lot more money-driven and fame-seeking. But when I’m 50-years-old, that’s not going to matter. What matters is pursuing a passion and doing…

A new traveling museum recognizes more than one hundred failed inventions. The builders want to encourage humanity to “accept failure, learn from it, and truly achieve progress.” Some of the failed innovations are the Apple Newton, Google Glass, Harley Davidson Perfume, and the Kodak Digital Camera.—Jim…

We lose track of the significant when we obsess in the unimportant stuff. Police in Bothell, Washington have had to request that residents stop dialing 911 to report that they cannot log on to Facebook. “We will move mountains to help those in our community,” said a police spokesman. “However, we can’t…

At the same time each night, Jerry Lynn gets a loud reminder of the mistake he made 13 years ago. In 2004, the Penn¬syl¬vania man was trying to find the right spot to drill a hole for a TV cable. He had the bright idea of lowering an alarm clock, tied to a piece of string, down an air vent. He set it…

Researchers at the Mayo Clinic say they have cracked the code to being happy. They have been studying this for decades, working with tens of thousands of patients. Now they think they have found it. They key parts of the code are 1) focus on the right things. 2) Learn to compartmentalize your life and…

18 years ago, Jill Dejewskis decided to volunteer at a Vacation Bible School in a mobile home community near her house. She never expected that week to turn into a lifelong commitment. As she worked in the area, she discovered that many of the families living in the community lived near or below the…

Ingeborg Sjöqvist is the world’s oldest living Olympian. She is 100-years-old. In her younger days she was a high-diver competing in the 1932 and the 1936 Olympics for her native Sweden. While she fondly remembers the events surrounding the Los Angeles Olympics, the high-diving itself is heartbreaking.…

“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but many of the things they make it easier to do don’t need to be done.” –Andy Rooney --The Week, June 1, 2012 p. 17 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson and Rodger Russell We are guilty of Andy Rooney’s charge in other areas of our lives as well. We live in…

New research suggests that the best way to reach a goal is make a specific plan and follow it, but for those striving for several goals at once, planning is not as effective. The study which appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, compiled results from several experiments, which found that people…

Sometimes we just lose focus. It is easy to be distracted from the main thing. Bonnie Miller, a 45-year-old resident of Benton Harbor, Michigan lost her focus. She was walking and became distracted by her smart phone. She was texting while walking and walked right off the pier and into Lake Michigan.…

A Central Florida conservation group, while incubating milk snake eggs, discovered one milk snake with two heads. It only has one body, but about 3 inches from the front end, the snake branches into two heads. Biologist Daniel parker said the snake has two brains, which command a single body. They will…

Did you ever want to do something courageous? Is there some part of you that would like to accomplish something great? Would you like your loved ones to remember you as someone who accomplished something for the Lord, or for your fellow humans? What do you think about when you think of those kinds of…

Brad Pitt.says he suffers from a “psychological defect” that won’t let him go backward. He says that if “he is leaving his home and realizes he’s forgotten something, he is incapable of going back to get it.” He added, “if I’m driving down the road and I miss a turn, I have to keep going forward. I can’t…

Students at a Virginia school now have a hard time failing. Recently, the principal of West Potomac High School decided to stop issuing an “F” or failing grade. The latest edition of the school’s report card showed many students received an “I” for incomplete instead. The principal, Clifford Hardison…

Some would say he was just in the right place at the right time, but really, there was more to it than that. Craig Sager was twenty-two years old, and an eager sports reporter when Hank Aaron tied Babe Ruth’s 714 career home run record. On April 8, 1974, the day Aaron broke the record, the press box…

A Texas church has caused a stir in their community by putting a message on their sign reading, “Jesus Does Not Care.” Pastor Brian Swiggart, pastor of The Community at Lake Ridge, says people have been unhappy because they don’t look past the phrase itself. Some visitors believe the message is a satanic…