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PREACHING
PREACHING Some pastors preach "longhorn sermons," a point here, a point there, and a lot of bull in between. Source Unknown.

PRECAUTION
PRECAUTION A woman locked herself out of her car, and a passer-by volunteered to go in search of a wire coat hanger, a standard implement in such cases. H...
PREDESTINATION
PREDESTINATION (see also ELECTION) Hyper-Calvinism. In the past, many strict Baptist Chapels have disdained even the simple notice board outside the...
PREDICTION
PREDICTION (see also FORECASTING) Theoretically, television may be feasible, but I consider it an impossibility--a development which we should waste...
PREJUDICE
PREJUDICE In his autobiography, Mahatma Gandhi wrote that during his student days he read the Gospels seriously and considered converting to Christianity....
PREMONITION
PREMONITION One afternoon in 1865, President Lincoln's Cabinet entered a council room for a meeting and found the President seated at the head of the...
PREPARATION
PREPARATION School just beginning. One morning went out to start car to go to church. Flat tire. Lucky I had a spare. Changed tire quickly and on way. Did...
PRESENT (time)
PRESENT (time) Margaret Storm Jameson, the English author, once expressed the view that we all spend too much time living in the past, feeling regret for ...
PRESERVATION
PRESERVATION A 1990 Subaru car commercial shows a Volvo heading toward a wall, and then, in slow motion, crashing into the wall. The Volvo is built so stu...
PRESIDENT
PRESIDENT David Rice Atchison -- Forget what the history books say. The 12th president of the United States was David Rice Atchison, a man so obscure that...
PRESSURE
PRESSURE Who was United States Senator Edmund G. Ross of Kansas? I suppose you could call him a "Mr. Nobody." No law bears his name. Not a single list of ...
PRESUMPTION
PRESUMPTION During the Battle of the Wilderness in the Civil War, Union general John Sedgwick was inspecting his troops. At one point he came to a parapet...
PRETENSE
PRETENSE Cleveland Amory tells this story about Judge John Lowell of Boston. One morning the judge was at breakfast, his face hidden behind the morning pa...
PREVENTION
PREVENTION A heavy rain had been falling as a man drove down a lonely road. As he rounded a curve, he saw an old farmer surveying the ruins of his barn. T...
PRIDE
PRIDE (see also HUMILITY) Golf immortal Arnold Palmer recalls a lesson about overconfidence: It was the final hole of the 1961 Masters ...
PRINCIPLE
PRINCIPLE What are you willing to do for $10,000,000? Two-thirds of Americans polled would agree to at least one, some to several of the following: ...
PRIORITIES
PRIORITIES In recent years a head coach divorced his wife of 26 years when he left coaching a college team to become head coach in the National Football L...
PRISON
PRISON Not long after a wealthy contractor had finished building the Tombs prison in New York, he was found guilty of forgery and sentenced to several yea...
PRIVATE WORLD
PRIVATE WORLD Out in front of us is the drama of men and of nations, seething, struggling, laboring, dying...but within the silences of the souls of men a...
PRIZE
PRIZE All anybody needs to know about prizes is that Mozart never won one. Henry Mitchel in Washington Post, Reader's Digest, May 1980...