Finagle’s laws of information 1. the information you have is not what you want. 2. the information you want is not what you need. 3. the information you need is not what you can obtain. 4. the information you can obtain costs more than you want to pay.
Influence
My Life My life shall touch a dozen lives before this day is done; Leave countless marks for good or ill, ere sets the evening sun. This is the wish I always wish, the prayer I always pray: Lord, may my life help other lives it touches by the way. Source unknown No Heathens Dr. … Continue reading “Influence”
Infertility
Fertility • It is estimated 15% of couples in this country are unable to have children because of fertility problems. USA Today, in Homemade, Jan., 1985
Inferiority
Resource • C. Swindoll, Three Steps Forward, p. 117. A man went to a psychiatrist and complained about an inferiority complex. The doctor listened to him for a while, then gave him a good news/bad news diagnosis: “The good news,” said the doctor, “Is that you don’t have a complex. The bad news is—you are … Continue reading “Inferiority”
Infanticide
Resources • Immortality, the Other Side of Death, G. R. Habermas, J. P. Moreland, Nelson, 1992, pp. 209ff Post Partum Abortions • Syndicated columnist Linda Bowles’s summary of hundreds of cases of “mothers throwing their babies off bridges, out windows, or into garbage cans. World, July 29, 1995
Inevitable
Two Cars Dr. Albert Schweitzer one evening at his hospital in Africa announced, “As you all know there are only two cars in a 75-mile radius. Today the inevitable happened. We will soon be working on the injured. If anyone wishes to work on the machines, he may.” Source unknown Quigley’s Law • If you … Continue reading “Inevitable”
Inerrancy, Moody on
I Believe It D. L. Moody often told this experience: “Mr. Moody, what do you do with that?” “I do not do anything with it.” “How do you understand it?” “I do not understand it.” “How do you explain it.” “I do not explain it.” “What do you do with it?” “I do not do … Continue reading “Inerrancy, Moody on”
Inerrancy
Reforming Fundamentalism The end result of all of this is sadly illustrated in the book, Reforming Fundamentalism, by George A. Marsden, which informs that 85% of the students in one of America’s largest evangelical seminaries stated that they do not believe in the inerrancy of Scripture. Beyond that, a poll of 10,000 U.S.A. clergymen (of … Continue reading “Inerrancy”
Indispensability
Best Qualified Desk sign at St. Louis Office Supply Company: “Don’t be indispensable. If you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.” Sometime, when you’re feeling important, Sometime, when your ego’s in bloom; Sometime, when you take it for granted You’re the best qualified man in the room; Sometime, when you feel that your going … Continue reading “Indispensability”
Individuality
Quote • Rabbi Zusya years ago said, “In the world to come I will not be asked, ‘Why were you not Moses?’ I will be asked, ‘Why were you not Zusya?’” The problem is how to be the person we were meant to be. Source unknown