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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…

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,…

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…

In their book, No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer write, “In white-water kayaking they teach you to look at the clear, safe water next to the dangerous hole you want to avoid. Experts have found that if you stare at what you are desperate to avoid, you are…

The social isolation and quarantine brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic has spurred extraordinary feats of perseverance. James Campbell ran a 26.2-mile marathon in his back yard. He covered the short path more than 7000 time in just over 5 hours earning $22,000 for charity. —Jim L. Wilson and Rodger…

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…

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…

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…

Herman “Hy” Goldman celebrated him 101st birthday by going to work, just like he usually does. Goldman says he is happy to still be working and doesn’t plan to quit after 73 years at the same job. Other than a brief absence to serve in World War II, Goldman has worked at Capital Lighting since 1941.…

Dr. Benjamin Elijah Mays, president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia said, “It must be borne in mind that the tragedy in life doesn't lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn't a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.…

At his heaviest, Marlon Gibson weighed 409 pounds. Today, he weighs 160 pounds, and is quick to point out that he did not use surgery, or a special diet plan. Gibson says what motivated him to lose weight was he saw his wife tear up while they were watching a television program about a weight loss competition.…

Diana Nyad is a great exemplar of persistence. At the age of 28 she attempted to swim from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage. No one had ever done it before. She failed. Then she failed again, and again. She tried and failed 4 times. Finally on her 5th try at age 64 she succeeded. For 53 hours she…

When a person is suffering from depression, there are times when they just can’t make their body do anything, even if they know a little exercise would be the best thing. Paige Waehner says she has helped a lot of people find the motivation to exercise, but admits that depression is especially hard to…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Quaint, bizarre, eccentric, peculiar—those words describe a little, wiry coal miner named Billy Bray, of Cornwell, England. Before his conversion in November, 1832, Billy lived a vile life. After finding Christ, he became a flaming evangelist and lay preacher. On a mountain near his home lived a cluster…