MAD
MAD
A "do it yourself" catalog firm received the following letter from one of its customers: "I built a birdhouse according to your stupid plans, and not ...
MAIL
MAIL
Early missionaries to the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific received their mail once a year when the sailing boat made its rounds of the South ...
MAJORITY
MAJORITY
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Grit.
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MALE
MALE
Astronaut Michael Collins, speaking at a banquet, quoted the estimate that the average man speaks 25,000 words a day and the average woman 30,000. Th...
MAN
MAN
Please see HUMANKIND
For references to males see MEN
MANAGEMENT
MANAGEMENT
Test pilots have a litmus test for evaluating problems. When something goes wrong, they ask, "Is this thing still flying?" If the answer is yes...
MARANATHA
MARANATHA
The word "maranatha" is a Syriac expression that means: "our Lord comes." It was used as a greeting in the early church. When believers gathered...
MARRIAGE
MARRIAGE
Openness is essentially the willingness to grow, a distaste for ruts, eagerly standing on top-toe for a better view of what tomorrow brings. A ma...
MARTYRDOM
MARTYRDOM
From boyhood, one of my favorite stories has been the forty martyrs of Sabaste. These forty soldiers, all Christians, were members of the famed ...
MARX, KARL
MARX, KARL
Two of his daughters and a son-in-law committed suicide. Three of his children died of malnutrition. Marx felt no obligation to earn a living, ...
MASKS
MASKS
In Basel, Switzerland each year the good protestant townspeople have a festival in which they all don masks and go through the city doing things and...
MASTER
MASTER
John Kenneth Galbraith, in his autobiography, A Life in Our Times, illustrates the devotion of Emily Gloria Wilson, his family's housekeeper:...
MATERIALISM
MATERIALISM
When a person loves earthly things so much that he can't get along without them, he opens himself to much suffering, both physical and me...
MATURITY
MATURITY
(see also GROWTH and PROGRESS)
"If you stop and ask yourself why you are not so devoted as the (early) Christians, your own heart will tell...
MEANING
MEANING
Humans arose, rather, as a fortuitous and contingent outcome of thousands of linked events, any one of which could have occurred differently and s...
MEANINGLESSNESS
MEANINGLESSNESS
Futility of Life
Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow
creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To ...
MEDICINE
MEDICINE
If Dracula were interested in drugstores, he'd shop at Sargent's in Chicago. In fact, store manager Harvey Snitman says he's more ...
MEDIOCRITY
MEDIOCRITY
Life is a leaf of paper white
Whereon each one of us may write
His word or two, and then comes night.
Gr...
MEDITATION
MEDITATION
The following illustration from A Primer on Meditation points out what happens when the mind is directed and focused on one thing: "M.A. Rosano...
MAD
MAD
A "do it yourself" catalog firm received the following letter from one of its customers: "I built a birdhouse according to your stupid plans, and not ...