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| | | Main : Books : Sower's Seeds SeriesPig and the Cow, The (by: Author Unknown)
"Why is it," said the rich man to his minister, "that people call me stingy when everyone knows that when I die I'm leaving everything to the church?"
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Prayer for His Son, A (by: Douglas MacArthur)
Build me a son, O Lord,
who will be strong enough to know when he is weak,
brave enough to face himself when he is afraid,
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Prayer Methods (by: Brian Cavanaugh, T.O.R.)
The disciple asks his master, " What can I do to attain God?"
The master answers by asking, "What can you do to make the sun rise?"
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Refining Gold (by: Brian Cavanaugh, T.O.R.)
Near Cripple Creek, Colorado, gold and tellurium occur mixed as tellurite ore. The refining methods of the early mining camps could not separate the two elements, so the ore was thrown into a scrap heap.
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Refusing to Accept Failure (by: Brian Cavanaugh, T.O.R.)
Sir Edmund Hillary was the first man to climb Mount Everest. On May 29, 1953 he scaled the highest mountain then known to man-29,000 feet straight up. He was knighted for his efforts.
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Sadness in Beauty (by: Brian Cavanaugh, T.O.R.)
The old man with the bent shoulders came out of the rain, furling his rice-paper umbrella as if it were a ship's sail. With some deliberation he climbed the slate step and crept past the carved stone pot into which clear water flowed from a cut length of bamboo just above.
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Shrine of Learning and Wisdom (by: Author Unknown)
There once was a new student starting her freshman year at the "College Among the Pines". She seemed lost, or maybe, searching for something.
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Sorrow Tree, The (by: Brian Cavanaugh, T.O.R.)
So it was that when the Hasidic pilgrims vied for those among them who had endured the most suffering, who was most entitled to complain, the Zaddck told them the story of the Sorrow Tree.
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Sparky - Charlie Brown (by: Brian Cavanaugh, T.O.R.)
A story is told about a boy named Sparky. For Sparky school was all but impossible. He failed every subject in the eighth grade. He flunked physics in high school. Receiving a flat zero in the course, he distinguished himeself as the worst physics student in the school's history. Sparky also flunked Latin, algebra and English.
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Succes or Failure (by: Author Unknown)
A troubled man made an appointment with a rabbi. He was a wise and gentle rabbi. "Rabbi," said the man, wringing his hands, "i'm a failure. More than half the time I do not succeed in doing what I know I must."
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