Commemoration of Crispin & Crispinian, Martyrs at Rome, c.285 Beginning a short series on prayer: Have you noticed how much praying for revival has been going on of late -- and how little revival has resulted? I believe the problem is that we have been trying to substitute praying for obeying, and it simply will not work. To pray for revival while ignoring the plain precept laid down in Scripture is to waste a lot of words and get nothing for our trouble. Prayer will become effective when we stop using it as a substitute for obedience.

The seal went into the restaurant and was asked by the waiter if he would like a Canadian Club on the rocks. He replied no thank you.

There grewe an aged tree on the greene; A goodly Oake sometime had it bene, With armes full strong and largely displayed, But of their leaves they were disarayde The bodie bigge, and mightely pight, Thoroughly rooted, and of wond'rous hight; Whilome had bene the king of the field, And mochell mast to the husband did yielde, And with his nuts larded many swine: But now the gray mosse marred his rine; His bared boughes were beaten with stormes, His toppe was bald, and wasted with wormes, His honour decayed, his brauches sere.

Get together a hundred or two men, however sensible they may be, and you are very likely to have a mob.

Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.

Laurel crowned Horatius True, how true the saying, Swift as wind flies over us Time devouring, slaying.

The incestuous relationship between government and big business thrives in the dark.

Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

The world is a living image of God.

Learning history is easy. Learning its lessons is almost impossible.

A seminar on time travel will be held in two weeks ago.

The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink; but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

The scientific theroy I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value.

When one door closes, another opens: but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

Come, lay thy head upon my breast, And I will kiss thee into rest.

She's adorned Amply, that in her husband's eye looks lovely,-- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in!

The stroke of the whip maketh marks in the flesh: but the stroke of the tongue breaketh the bones. Many have fallen by the edge of the sword: but not so many as have fallen by the tongue. .