William Sydney Porter, better known by his pen name “O. Henry,” became one of
the most popular...
In May 2013, thirteen-year-old Arvind Mahankali correctly spelled the word “knaidel”
(a German-...
Though he would later be acclaimed as one of the greatest
inventors of history, Thomas Edison’s...
It
took less than ten seconds for Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt to cover the one
hundred meter...
Someone once observed that a
wasted life is really nothing more than a collection of wasted days....
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the...
A mother walked into her teenage son’s makeshift
weight room and watched him work out on the bench...
She said her
hands were ugly, and she tried to hide them, too.
But in God’s sight ‘twas different,...
Kreisler, the famous violinist, said, “Narrow is the road that leads to the life of a
violinist....
The nice thing about apathy is you don’t have
to exert yourself to show you’re sincere about it....
Too busy to read the
Bible, too busy to wait and pray;
Too busy to speak out kindly, to someone...
The Master was searching for a vessel to use;
On the shelf there were many—which one would He...
“Professor Drummond once described a man going into one of
our after-meetings and saying he wanted...
The Puritan John Brown wrote, “Many Christians are like children; they would
sow and reap the same...
Billy Bray was a Cornish miner who
accepted Jesus Christ as his Saviour in 1823 at the age of 29....
A farm boy got a white football for Christmas. He played
with it awhile and accidentally kicked it...
There
is a marker on a rock near the top of Mount Washington, marking the spot where
a woman...
Colonel George Washington Goethals, the man responsible for
the completion of the Panama Canal, had...
A number of years ago, the Associated Press released a study done by an agricultural school in Iowa...
“There is a marvelous medicinal power in joy. Most medicines are distasteful; but this, which
is...
