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Vol 10
Goldmines quotes and bulletin
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Vol
10
#1
Mar
2010
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Sermon
a little too long?
The
preacher asked a man who
got up to leave during the
service, “Where
are you going? “Out to get
a haircut,” the man
replied. “But why didn’t
you get it before you came
here?” “I didn’t
need it then.”
Happiness is in the heart,
not in the circumstances.
Just suppose "church" was
like "school" and you 'had
to maintain a passing
grade to stay in. How many
would "graduate?" How many
would "drop out?"
If absence makes the heart
grow fonder, some members
must be deeply in love
with the church.
Most of the world does not
read the Bible, but reads
carefully the lives – the
attitudes and actions – of
those who claim to follow
the Bible’s teaching.
Religion should be a
steering wheel, not a
spare tire.
One of the best evidences
of the inspiration of the
Bible is the fact that it
has survived the
fanaticism of some of its
friends.
- via The
Encourager, the weekly
bulletin for the Dongola
church of Christ,
Dongola, IL.
Gerald Cowan serves the
congregation as
minister. He may
be contacted at Geraldcowan1931@aol.com
“The church is the glue
that keeps us together
when we disagree. It
is the gasoline that keeps
us going during the tough
times. It is the
guts that enable us to
take risks when we need
to.” (Mary Nelson)
- From Leadership
Magazine
“Pray” is a four – letter
word you can say anywhere
– except in public
schools.
In our town where I held a
meeting the paper
reported—”Leon Hill came
to our town for a revival
meeting and did nobody any
harm.”
My faithful and wise maid
said in response to the
question of what keeps
people from praying, "To
stiff to bend, I guess."
“Prayer is the key of the
morning and the bolt of
the evening.”
- via THE SOWER,
a weekly publication of
the Arthur church of
Christ, Arthur, IL. Ron
Bartanen, who serves as
minister and editor, may
be contacted via their
website at http://www.arthurchurchofchrist.com
"Great wisdom is generous;
petty wisdom is
contentious. Great speech
is impassioned, small
speech
cantankerous."
[Chuang-tzu (369 BC - 286
BC), On Leveling All
Things]
“The true American
religious tradition, the
one that disciplines
power, subjugating it to
reason, truth and,
ultimately, an
all-powerful God, is not a
threat to liberty but its
best defender.”
[Judge Janice Rogers
Brown]
“No small concern of those
who created the
Constitution was the
prospect of legislative
tyranny, the exercise of
power for illegitimate
purposes carried out in
the name of the majority.”
[Gary McDowell] |
Vol
10
#2
Apr
2010 |
“If
your day is hemmed with
prayer, it is less likely
to come unraveled.”
"God
couldn't re-create the
world today in 7
days. He couldn't
get environmental impact
clearance permission in
under nine months." (Henry
L. Mencken)
- via THE SOWER, a
weekly publication of
the Arthur church of
Christ, Arthur, IL. Ron
Bartanen, who serves as
minister and editor, may
be contacted through
their website at http://www.arthurchurchofchrist.com
When shepherds start
speaking well of wolves,
the sheep are in big
trouble.
Do not laugh at those
who fall. There are, no
doubt, some slippery
places in your own path.
Even if happiness could
be bought, most people
would not pay the price.
They would still insist
that it be given to
them.
Even those who doubt
their ability have few
doubts about their
importance.
If you want to be sure
God will hear you when
you pray you must make
sure you hear Him when
He speaks.
Sermon Quotes
The best way to
compliment the preacher
on his sermon is to
bring somebody with you
to hear the next one.
Very few people find the
sermon too long if it is
helpful.
Too many folks would
rather hear a good
sermon on Sunday than to
live one during the
week.
It is easy to appreciate
any point of a sermon
that prods somebody
else.
- via The Encourager,
the weekly bulletin for
the Dongola church of
Christ, Dongola,
IL. Gerald Cowan
serves the congregation
as minister. He
may be contacted at Geraldcowan1931@aol.com
A GOOD
QUESTION? If someone were
to pay you ten cents for
every kind word you ever
spoke about people and
collect five cents for
every unkind word…...would
you be rich or poor?
- via The Central
Message, the weekly
bulletin of the Central
church of Christ in
Paducah KY. Jim
Faughn serves as an
elder and preacher for
the congregation.
He may be contacted
through the church’s
website: http://www.centralchurchofchrist.org
Attending church
services regularly is
like making a path
through the forest ~ the
more often you use it,
the less obstruction you
find in the way.
-
Selections from Bulletin
Digest; via The Central
Message, the weekly
bulletin of the Central
church of Christ in
Paducah KY. Jim
Faughn serves as an
elder and preacher for
the congregation.
He may be contacted
through the church’s
website: http://www.centralchurchofchrist.org
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Vol
10
#3
May
2010 |
Before
you run words through your
mouth, run them through your
heart and mind first.
Before you give anyone a
piece of your mind be sure
you can get by with what you
have left.
If you give a piece of your
mind to too many people they
may begin to think you are
not all there.
One who sings his own
praises is often a soloist.
If you want to criticize
someone, go look in your
mirror.
Criticism is the disapproval
of people who have faults
different from yours.
- via
The Encourager, the weekly
bulletin for the Dongola
church of Christ, Dongola,
IL. Gerald Cowan
serves the congregation as
minister. He may be
contacted at Geraldcowan1931@aol.com
Nature abhors a vacuum. When
a head lacks brains, nature
is apt to fill it with
conceit.
Fool fights with his own
shadow.
He who has an inflated ego
should wear heavy shoes.
Criminal: A person with
predatory instincts who has
not sufficient capital to
form a corporation. (Howard
Scott)
I would
rather be a coward than
brave because people hurt
you when you are brave. (E.
M. Forster, 1879-1970)
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Vol
10
#4
Jun
2010 |
Stay
Humble or Stumble.
- via The Lantern, Highway
church of Christ,
Sullivan, IL Visit
their website as http://www.highwaycofc.com
“HUMILITY is that strange
thing that the moment you
think you have it, you
lost it!” (Unknown
source)
THINK ABOUT IT—
What
you think of yourself is
much more important than
what others think about
you.
Silence
is foolish if we are wise,
but wise if we are
foolish.
The
weak can never
forgive. Forgiveness
is the attribute of the
strong. - Matatma Gandhi
- via THE SOWER, a weekly
publication of the Arthur
church of Christ, Arthur,
IL. Ron Bartanen, who
serves as minister and
editor, may be contacted
through the congregation's
website: http://www.arthurchurchofchrist.com
I wish people were always
as nice as they are when
they want something.
If arousing enthusiasm
were as easy as arousing
suspicion, just think what
we could accomplish.
If you want to succeed you
must be easy to start and
hard to stop.
It should be comforting to
know that God still has
His hands on the wheel of
the universe. There’s
nobody else I would trust
to drive this world or my
life.
The concern of Jesus was
not to get people out of
the slums. He walked the
squalid streets of the
world of his time getting
the slums out of the
people. – Paul Harvey
- via The Encourager, the
weekly bulletin for the
Dongola church of Christ,
Dongola, IL. Gerald
Cowan serves the
congregation as
minister. He may be
contacted at Geraldcowan1931@aol.com
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Vol
10
#5
Jul
2010 |
To be
innocent is to be not
guilty; but to be virtuous
is to overcome our evil
inclinations.
A PRAYER TO BE PRAYED MORE
OFTEN: "Dear Lord, please
keep your arm around my
shoulder, and your hand over
my mouth."
"LORD, thank you for this
beautiful day! Please help
me to see the beauty in
every day, and help others
to see the beauty in your
wonders. Guide me through
perils toward your brilliant
light. Amen." - Kate
E. Ritger, Prayer in All
Things
BEING "QUICK TO HEAR":
Always listen to the
opinions of others. It
probably won't do you any
good, but it will them.
"An optimist sees an
opportunity in every
calamity; a pessimist sees a
calamity in every
opportunity." -
Winston Churchill
THE LAW ENFORCEMENT
Assistance administration
spent $27,000 to find out
why inmates want to escape
from prison. (Trib-Bits,
Decatur Tribune, 9-5-'04)
- via THE
SOWER, a weekly
publication of the Arthur
church of Christ, Arthur,
IL. Ron Bartanen, who
serves as minister and
editor, may be contacted
through the congregation's
website: http://www.arthurchurchofchrist.com
A person may make many
mistakes in working for the
Lord, but he makes a much
greater mistake in not
working for Him.
- via The
Encourager, the weekly
bulletin for the Dongola
church of Christ, Dongola,
IL. Gerald Cowan
serves the congregation as
minister. He may be
contacted at Geraldcowan1931@aol.com
A good novel tells us the
truth about its hero; but a
bad novel tells us the truth
about its author. G. K.
Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
An invasion of armies can be
resisted, but not an idea
whose time has come."-
Victor Hugo
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Vol
10
#6
Aug
2010 |
All
I
have
seen
teaches
me
to
trust the Creator for all
I have not seen. (Emerson)
- via the Family
Matters, weekly bulletin
of the Jackson church of
Christ in Jackson, MO.
Edd Sterchi preaches for
the congregation, and he
may be contacted through
their website at http://www.jacksonchurchofchrist.com
Nothing is outside the
reach of prayer except
what is outside the will
of God.
- via The
Encourager, the weekly
bulletin for the Dongola
church of Christ,
Dongola, IL.
Gerald Cowan serves the
congregation as
minister. He may
be contacted at Geraldcowan1931@aol.com
God Himself doesn’t
propose to judge a man
until he is dead. So
why should you?
“God doesn’t call the
qualified; He qualifies
the called.”
“We don’t change the
message; the message
changes us.”
"Were there no God, we
would be in this glorious
world with grateful hearts
and no one to thank."
(Christina Georgina
Rossetti)
- via THE SOWER,
a weekly publication of
the Arthur church of
Christ, Arthur, IL. Ron
Bartanen, who serves as
minister and editor, may
be contacted through the
congregation's website:
http://www.arthurchurchofchrist.com
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Vol
10
#7
Sept
2010
|
Don’t
mistake a poor memory for
a clear conscience.
A
friend is someone who oils
the hinges of opportunity
for others.
Many
of
those
who
repent
loud
and
long
sometimes
only seem to be bragging.
Strange
isn’t
it?
People
repeat
some
scandalous
rumor
while
declaring they do not
believe it.
The
difference
between
a
smart
man
and
a
wise
man: a smart man knows
what to say; a wise man
knows whether or not to
say it.
The
true
test
of
loyalty
may
not
be
willingness
to tell your friends about
Christ, but to tell your
enemies about Him.
There
is
probably
some
good
in
every
person,
but
in some it is certainly
more difficult to find
than we expect it to be.
To
marry
a woman for her beauty is
like buying a house for
its paint.
When
Christ
was
on
the
cross
you
were
on
His mind.
-
via The Encourager, the
weekly bulletin for the
Dongola church of
Christ, Dongola,
IL. Gerald Cowan
serves the congregation
as minister. He
may be contacted at Geraldcowan1931@aol.com
TODAY’S
LAUGH:
“I
was
always
taught
to
respect
my
elders, but it keeps
getting harder to find
one.”
He who
kneels before God can
stand before anyone.
He who
is good at making excuses
is seldom good for
anything else.
-
via THE SOWER, a weekly
publication of the
Arthur church of Christ,
Arthur, IL. Ron
Bartanen, who serves as
minister and editor, may
be contacted through the
congregation's website:
http://www.arthurchurchofchrist.com
"Happy
he who learns to bear what
he cannot change." Johann
Friedrich Von Schiller
(1759-1805, German
dramatist, poet,
historian)
- H.
L. Gradowith For
more information on H.
L. Gradowith and
GRADOWITH POEMS e-mail
group visit http://www.geocities.com/fp5699/ -
the website of Tim
Smith, minister of the
Enon church of Christ in
Webb, AL.
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Vol
10
#8
Oct
2010 |
RANDOM
THOUGHTS—
“Our national life is
ended as soon as it has
lost the power of noble
anger. When it
paints over and apologizes
for its pitiful
criminalities and endures
its false weights and
adulterated food, dares
not decide practically
between good and evil, and
can neither honor the one
nor smite the other, but
sneers at the good as if
it were hidden evil, and
consoles the evil with
pious sympathy, the end is
come.”
--John Ruskin
“He who loses wealth loses
much; he who loses a
friend loses more; but he
that loses his courage
loses
all.”
--Miguel de Carvantes
A Wise Voice from the
Past:
Regardless of what you may
think of President Woodrow
Wilson, he gave us a very
wise warning when he said,
“The history of liberty is
the history of
resistance. The
history of liberty is a
history of the limitation
of governmental power, not
the increase of it.
When we resist the
concentration of power, we
are resisting the powers
of death. Concentration of
power precedes the
destruction of human
liberties.”
THOUGHTS ON GOVERNMENT—
“Government is a lot like
your digestive system—if
it is working right, you
hardly know you have it.”
“The national budget must
be balanced. The
public debt must be
reduced. The
arrogance of the
authorities must be
moderated and
controlled. Payments
to foreign governments
must be reduced if the
nation doesn’t want to go
bankrupt. People must
again learn to work
instead of living on
public assistance."
(Tillius Cicero, 55 B.C.)
"Character is like the
foundation of a house -
strong below the surface.
--Trib-Bits, Decatur
Tribune
MEMORABLE QUOTES
Words are best kept
sweet and soft because
someday you may have to
eat them.
What’s the use of
having ignorance if you
can’t show it? (Lou
Costello)
If you want to go
fast, go alone. If
you want to go far, go
together.
Any fool can
criticize, condemn and
complain, and most fools
do. (Benjamin
Franklin)
He can compress the
most words into the
smallest idea of any man I
know. (Abraham
Lincoln)
- via THE SOWER, a weekly
publication of the Arthur
church of Christ, Arthur,
IL. Ron Bartanen, who
serves as minister and
editor, may be contacted
through the congregation's
website: http://www.arthurchurchofchrist.com
- Everyone is a prisoner
of his own
experiences. No one
can eliminate prejudices -
just recognize them
(Edward R. Muggow).
- The only limit to our
realization of tomorrow
will be our doubts of
today. Let us move
forward with strong and
active faith (Franklin
Delano Roosevelt).
- But what happiness
except the simple harmony
between a man and the life
he leads? (Albert Camus).
- Your success and
happiness lie in you ...
Resolve to keep happy, and
your joy and you shall
form an invincible host
against difficulties
(Helen Keller).
- Cherish all your happy
moments: they make a fine
cushion for old age (Booth
Tarkington).
- Everything is funny as
long as it is happening to
somebody else (Will
Rogers).
- There are no grades of
vanity, there are only
grades of ability in
concealing it (Mark
Twain).
- Conscience is the inner
voice that warns us
somebody may be looking
(Henry Louis Mencken).
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Vol
10
#9
Nov
2010 |
“Character
is
like
the foundation of a
house—strong below the
surface.”
"It cannot be emphasized
too strongly or too often
that this great nation was
founded, not by
religionists, but by
Christians, not on
religions, but on the
gospel of Jesus Christ!"
(Patrick Henry)
- via THE SOWER,
a weekly publication of
the Arthur church of
Christ, Arthur, IL. Ron
Bartanen, who serves as
minister and editor, may
be contacted through the
congregation's website:
http://www.arthurchurchofchrist.com
A friend is someone who
will help you move. A real
friend is someone who will
help you move a body. --
Unknown
A friend is someone who
has an interest in you,
but not a controlling one.
- via The
Encourager, the weekly
bulletin for the Dongola
church of Christ,
Dongola, IL.
Gerald Cowan serves the
congregation as
minister. He may
be contacted at Geraldcowan1931@aol.com
Thanksgiving dinners take
eighteen hours to
prepare. They are
consumed in twelve
minutes. Half-times
take twelve minutes.
This is not
coincidence. (Erma
Bombeck)
I awoke this morning with
devout thanksgiving for my
friends, the old and new.
(Will Carleton)
“Thanksgiving Day is a
jewel, to set in the
hearts of honest men, but
be careful that you do not
take the day and leave out
the gratitude.” (E.P.
Powell)
“Remember God's bounty in
the year. String the
pearls of His favor. Hide
the dark parts, except so
far as they are breaking
out in light! Give this
one day to thanks, to joy,
to gratitude!” (Henry Ward
Beecher) |
Vol
10
#10
Dec
2010 |
LIFE
is
like
a coin. You can
spend it any way you
wish—but you can only
spend it once.
No matter what a man’s
past may have been, his
future is spotless. (John
R. Rice)
Dost thou love life? Then
do not squander
time. For that’s the
stuff life is made of.
(Benjamin Franklin)
Time wasted is existence;
used, it is life.
- via THE
SOWER, a weekly
publication of the
Arthur church of Christ,
Arthur, IL. Ron
Bartanen, who serves as
minister and editor, may
be contacted through the
congregation's website:
http://www.arthurchurchofchrist.com
What the new year brings
to you will depend in part
on what you bring to the
new year.
Do not let the new year
bring you a fresh start on
your same old habits.
-
via The Encourager, the
weekly bulletin for the
Dongola church of Christ,
Dongola, IL. Gerald
Cowan serves the
congregation as
minister. He may be
contacted at Geraldcowan1931@aol.com
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Vol
10
#11
Jan
2011 |
Education
helps one go from cocksure
certainty to thoughtful
uncertainty.
Education pays - unless you
happen to be the educator.
Most people don't really
fail. They just quit trying
to get things right.
If you are not able to make
good use of what you have,
perhaps you have too much.
It is better to wish you had
something you don't have
than to wish you didn't have
something you do have.
It is hard to identify good
luck. It looks so much like
something you have earned or
deserve.
Is thrift becoming
unfashionable or just
impossible?
- via The
Encourager, the weekly
bulletin for the Dongola
church of Christ, Dongola,
IL. Gerald Cowan
serves the congregation as
minister. He may be
contacted at Geraldcowan1931@aol.com
FRUSTRATION is not having
anyone to blame but
yourself.
- via THE
SOWER, a weekly
publication of the Arthur
church of Christ, Arthur,
IL. Ron Bartanen, who
serves as minister and
editor, may be contacted
through the congregation's
website: http://www.arthurchurchofchrist.com
Do not anticipate trouble,
or worry about what may
never happen. Keep in the
sunlight. (Benjamin
Franklin)
Failure is one thing that
can be achieved without
effort.
Ideas are funny things, they
do not work unless you do.
If swimming is so good for
your figure, how do you
explain whales!
I have never let my
schooling interfere with my
education. (Mark Twain)
Cynics regarded everybody as
equally corrupt... Idealists
regarded everybody as
equally corrupt, except
themselves. (Robert
Anton Wilson)
Everyone has a right to a
university degree in
America, even if it's in
Hamburger Technology. (Clive
James)
Exercise is bunk. If you are
healthy, you don't need it;
if you are sick, you
shouldn't take it. (Henry
Ford)
For a successful technology,
reality must take precedence
over public relations, for
Nature cannot be fooled.
(Richard Feynman)
God help those who do not
help themselves. (Wilson
Mizner)
If I had only known, I would
have been a locksmith.
(Albert Einstein)
I still believe in
liberalism today as much as
I ever did, but, oh, there
was a happy time when I
believed in
liberals... (G. K.
Chesterton)
Consistency requires you to
be as ignorant today as you
were a year ago. (Bernard
Berenson)
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Vol
10
#12
Feb
2011 |
Giving all
your love to others is no
assurance they will love you
back. Wait for love to grow
in their hearts, but if it
doesn’t, be content that it
grew in yours.
If you cut a person too much
slack you shouldn’t be
surprised when he becomes a
slacker.
Life is like a bath. The
longer you stay in it the
more wrinkled you get.
No rule of success will work
if you do not.
One cannot go anywhere by
straddling the fence.
People with tact keep
relationships intact and
have less to retract.
The grass next door may be
greener but it is just as
hard to cut.
Things could always be
worse. Suppose your errors
were counted and published
every day, like a baseball
player’s.
"Before a diamond shows its
brilliancy and prismatic
colors it has to stand a
good deal of cutting and
smoothing." -- Author
Unknown
Those who invite trouble
find it usually accepts the
invitation.
The trouble with going your
own way is that you may not
find your way back.
- via The
Encourager, the weekly
bulletin for the Dongola
church of Christ, Dongola,
IL. Gerald Cowan
serves the congregation as
minister. He may be
contacted at Geraldcowan1931@aol.com
It is much easier to be
critical than correct.
(Benjamin Disraeli)
“The gem cannot be polished
without friction, nor man
perfected without trials.”
(Chinese Proverb)
- via THE
SOWER, a weekly
publication of the Arthur
church of Christ, Arthur,
IL. Ron Bartanen, who
serves as minister and
editor, may be contacted
through the congregation's
website: http://www.arthurchurchofchrist.com
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