Ken’s Corner

“Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven.”
- Charles Williams

“Love is blind – marriage is the eye-opener.”
- Pauline Thomason

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us.
–Henry Ward Beecher

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting goals and achieving them. Even the most tedious chore will become endurable as you parade through each day convinced that every task, no matter how menial or boring, brings you closer to fulfilling your dreams.
–Og Mandino

“Some of the most cantankerous people I know are veritable storehouses of Bible knowledge. Paul says, ‘If I have not love, I’m a sounding brass or clanging cymbal.’ People don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”
– Rick Warren

“Every day you either live by priorities or you live by pressures. You either decide what is important in your life or else you let other people tell you what is most important in your life.”
– Rick Warren

According to the Alzheimer’s Association, 10 million Baby Boomers will develop Alzheimer’s in their lifetime.
- (Source: www.alz.org)

I am unable to see how a man can find the hand of God in secular history unless he has first found an assurance of it in his personal experience.
–Huber Butterfield, Christianity and History p. 107

I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
—Leo Rosten

Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room
by people you wouldn’t have in your house.

–David Frost, English satirist and television host (1939—)