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Today's Quotations — HOPE
 

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Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be co-opted by the managers of this age. 

Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination, 1978



Hope . . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future. 

Emil Brunner, Eternal Hope, 1954

 
 

If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.


St. Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis, c. 193
 


Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.


William Sloane Cofffin, Jr., Once to Every Man, 1977.

 
 

The word which God has written on the brow of every man is Hope.

Victor Hugo (1802-85), Treasure Bits from ed. By Rose

 

word puzzleToday's Word – BELIE

 

be·lie transitive verb be·lied, be·ly·ing, be·lies. 1. To picture falsely; misrepresent: 2. To show to be false: 3. To be counter to; contradict: [Middle English bilien, from Old English belogan, to deceive with lies.] --be·li"er noun.

The Puritan --if not belied by some singular stories, murmured, even at this day, under the narrator's breath--had fallen into certain transgressions to which men of his great animal development, whatever their faith or principles, must continue liable, until they put off impurity, along with the gross earthly substance that involves it.

The House of the Seven Gables.
By Nathaniel Hawthorne

Definitions from American Heritage Dictionary

 

Today's Fact

 

  
 

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An Awful Itch

Why does scratching an itch make the itch stop? Well, actually it doesn’t. In itch is the result of an irritation of a nerve ending close to the surface of the skin. Scratching the spot where it itches overrides the itch by causing pain at the site. If the result of the scratching removes an external cause of the itch – like a speck of dust or a loose thread – the itch will not come back. If the causes of the itch the result of an allergic reaction or a mosquito bite, chances are that the itch will return.

The Unbelievable Truth | Jeff Rovin

 


You are worthy, O Lord our God,
to receive glory and honor and power.
For you created everything,
and it is for your pleasure that they exist and were created."

Rev. 4:11

 

 

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Today's SMILE

 

 

A cheerful heart is good medicine,
but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.
Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)

 
   

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What did the baby chick say when the mother hen laid an orange?
     Look at the Orange Momma laid!

Knock knock. Who's there? Lass. Lass who?
     Lassoo my horse! It's getting away!

What did the snail say as he was riding on the turtles back?
     (throwing your arms straight up for visual effect)
     Ooouuuueeeeeeee!!

What did the Buddhist say to the pizza maker?
     Make me one with everything.

What do you call a psychic midget who's escaped from prison?
     A small medium at large.

What do you get when you cross an agnostic with a dyslexic insomniac?
     Someone who lies awake at night pondering the existence
     of doG.

What do you get when you cross a mafia don with a lawyer?
     An offer you can't understand.

What do Winnie the Pooh and Atilla the Hun have in common?
     Same middle name.

What do you call Bob the Electrician after he's been fired?
     Bob.

What do you get when you cross a bowl of mashed potatoes with a sponge???
     I don't know what you call it but it sure soaks up the gravy!!

How many ski instructors does it take to put in a light bulb?
     Ten. One to put it in, and ten to tell her how good her turns are.

Why is Cinderella such a poor soccer player?
     Because she has a pumpkin for a coach!

Why do gorillas have such big nostrils?
     Because they have such big fingers.

What do you get when you cross an elephant with a kangaroo?
     A lot of big holes in Australia.

What did the man say when he walked into the bar?
     "Ouch!"

How do you make a Kleenex dance?
     You put a little boogie in it!

What is British Columbia's favorite wine?
     "I wanna go to Hawaii!"

What do you get when you cross Lassie with a cantaloupe?
     A melon-collie baby.

A three legged dog walks into a bar and says:
     "I'm lookin' for the man who shot my paw!"

Why did Cleopatra always say no.
     Because she was the Queen of de Nile. 


There was a journalist who was sent to find photographer Tanaka Rhee, who had been lost in New Guinea while on assignment for LIFE magazine. After months of searching through steaming jungles and rank swampland, he finally came upon a small village where several outsiders were held in deep, murky pits.

Shining a flashlight into one pit after another, the journalist at last spotted his quarry. Jumping for joy, he sang out, "Oh, sweet Mr. Rhee of LIFE, at last I've found you!"



TRUE FACT ...

Humans begin laughing at two to three months of age. Six year olds laugh about 300 times per day, while adults laugh from 15 to 100 times per day.

SOURCE: NYT, Dr. William F. Fry, Stanford University

 

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