... coffee in the kitchen for the reporter. The reporter was taken aback by all this — because he knew the involvements of Sam Rayburn. “Mr. Speaker,” he said, “I thought you were having breakfast this morning at the White House with the President.” ... me is a gift. I am called to be rich — rich in good deeds, rich in generosity. Do you remember that witness of Jim Elliott — the famous missionary to the Aucca Indians? He put it so clearly and so challengingly in his diary: “He is no fool who gives ...
... a grammar lesson one day and she said to one of her students, "Sam, what is it when I say, one quote, ‘I love you, comma, you love me, comma, he loves me, question mark?'" Sam said, "That is one of those triangles where somebody gets shot!" Some people ... -27. [5] "In Other Words", May-June, 1994. [6] MSNBC/Stanford/Duquesen Study, Washington Times, 1/26/00. [7] Elizabeth Elliott, Passion and Purity, (Old Tappan, New Jersey: Fleming H. Revell Company, 1983), p.147. [8] Michael Medved, Hollywood Vs. America, ...
... mother, Anna Rebecca Hall, died from diphtheria in 1892. The next year, when Roosevelt was 9 years old, her father Elliott died from the same disease. Eleanor was raised by her maternal grandmother. Maybe this is what gave Roosevelt her great ... of his stores in Des Moines, Iowa, Penney trained a young Penney’s employee named Sam Walton on how to wrap packages with a minimal amount of paper and ribbon. That is the same Sam Walton who went on to found Wal-Mart, the world largest department store chain. There ...
... named it the city of David. David built the city all around from the Millo inward. And David became greater and greater, for the Lord, the God of hosts, was with him. (II Sam 5:1-10 NRSV). We ourselves are Jews by birth and not Gentile sinners; yet we know that a person is justified not by the works of the law but trough faith ... than risk the joy of an unpredictable one. We need to remember the words of T. S. Elliott: “Only those who are willing to risk going too far can possibly find out how far to go.”
... a model for the life to which Jesus calls us. A life withdrawn from the world is a distorted version of the Christian faith. Sam Shumaker the leading evangelical voice of the Episcopal Church during the past fifty years expressed it powerfully in a poem: “I Stand by The ... years ago there was a national spelling contest in Washington, D. C. In the fourth round of the contest, Rosalie Elliott, then an eleven-year-old from South Carolina, drew the word “avowal.” In her soft, Southern accent, she spelled ...
