After the construction of the Cruise Ship, Titanic, a reporter asked the man who built the ship how safe the Titanic would be.
He answered: “Not even God can sink it.”
The man that built the Titanic
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On being offended – Marcus Aurelius
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In his notes-to-self written over 2,000 years ago and published as the book “Meditations”, greatest of all Roman emperors philosopher/general Marcus Aurelius offers some wonderful advice to those who have been offended. Aurelius says we have two options. One is to judge and condemn the offender, which automatically gives them space in your head and drives you to seek revenge. The other is to...
John Harper’s last convert
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John Harper’s Last Convert By Dr. Erwin W. Lutzer | Pastor John Harper was one of the passagers on the Titanic that sank in April 1912. When the Titanic started to sink, he made sure his sister and six year old daugter got into a life boat and then he went back. Survivors later reported that as Titanic began to sink, Harper admonished people to be prepared to die. And when he found...
Leo Tolstoy: Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
10 to the 55th decimal point
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A designed universe: Several famous physicists, including Stephen Hawking worked out that the relationship between all the fundamentals of our universe are so finely tuned that even if we slightly changed the 55th decimal point then our universe could not exist. Put another way, several leading scientists have calculated that the statistical probability against this fine tuning being by chance is...
Adolf Hitler: What luck for rulers that men do not think.
2 Dots
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Ravi Zacharias: I will never forget talking to a former Muslim who had committed his life to Jesus Christ and who gave me a fascinating word picture. He drew two circles and put a small dot in each of them. Pointing to the first, he said, “As a Muslim, I believed the circle to be my faith and the little dot to be my life.” Then he pointed to the next circle and said, “Now, as a follower of Jesus...
They said no a 115 times
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Ever wrote a book and nobody wants to publish it? This happened with Norman Vincent Peale. He is the author of the bestseller “The Power of Positive Thinking”. He wrote the book and sent it to a publisher, which returned it. Then he sent it to another one, and another one… Everytime the publishers returned the book: 115 times. When it came back after a 115 attempts, he threw it in...
The Plague of Cyprian
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The Plague of Cyprian is the name given to a pandemic, probably of smallpox, that afflicted the Roman Empire from AD 250 onwards during one of the largest disasters in the ancient world between AD 250-270. It even claimed the life of emperor Claudius II Gothicus. The plague is thought to have caused widespread manpower shortages in agriculture and the Roman army...
William Barclay (Bible commentator): Jesus promised his disciples 3 things: that they would be completely fearless, absurdly happy, and in constant trouble.