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- FEAR
- FEAR
It is a poor thing to fear that which is inevitable.
Tertullian, third-century church father, speaking of death.
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- FEAR OF THE LORD
- FEAR OF THE LORD
In The Chronicles of Narnia, an allegory by C.S. Lewis, the author has two girls, Susan and Lucy, getting ready to meet Aslan the lion, w...
- FEAR OF MAN
- FEAR OF MAN
Seeking to know God better, John Chrysostom became a hermit in the mountains near Antioch in A.D. 373. Although his time of isolation was cut ...
- FEELINGS
- FEELINGS
When George B. McClellan was commissioned Major General of the Army, he wrote his wife, "I don't feel any different than I did yesterday. In...
- FELLOWSHIP
- FELLOWSHIP
I want the whole Christ for my Savior, the whole Bible for my book, the whole Church for my fellowship, and the whole world for my mission fiel...
- FEMINISM
- FEMINISM
Meg. F. Quijano related the following incident that happened upon her return from a meeting of the National Organization for...
- FIGHT
- FIGHT
People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren.
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- FINANCES
- FINANCES
It costs more to buy the average new car in the U.S. today than it cost Christopher Columbus to equip and undertake his maiden voyage to the New ...
- FINISH
- FINISH
It is important to start right, but it is imperative to end well.
William Clubertson, former president, Moody Bible Institute
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- FIRSTBORN
- FIRSTBORN
Firstborns gravitate toward positions of leadership because that was their position in the family. When there's a family crisis, everyone t...
- FISHING
- FISHING
A priest who has spent a fruitless day fishing picked out three fat fish in the market. "Before you wrap them," he said to the store manager," tos...
- FLESH
- FLESH
John Mason Brown was a drama critic and speaker well known for his witty and informative lectures on theatrical topics. One of his first important a...
- FLEXIBILITY
- FLEXIBILITY
Back in 1934, when the Cunard line was getting ready to name its greatest ocean liner, the consensus was that it should be named after Queen E...
- FOCUS
- FOCUS
Golf immortal Arnold Palmer recalls a lesson about overconfidence: It was the final hole of the 1961 Masters tournament, and I had a one-stroke lead...
- FOLLOWER
- FOLLOWER
Eli Black was a brilliant businessman best know for two events in his life: He masterminded the multimillion dollar takeover of the United Fruit ...
- FOOL
- FOOL
The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still 'tis nonsense.
B. Franklin.
- FOOTBALL
- FOOTBALL
Surprised to see an empty seat at the Super Bowl stadium, a diehard fan remarked about it to a woman sitting nearby. "It was my husband's," ...
- FORECASTING
- FORECASTING
(see also PREDICTION)
Airplanes are interesting toys, but they have no military value.
Marshal Ferdinand Foch in 1911.
- FORGET
- FORGET
It's very human to begin looking for something and then forget what you're looking for. Tennessee Williams tells a story of someone who f...
- FORGIVENESS
- FORGIVENESS
Not long before she died in 1988, in a moment of surprising candor in television, Marghanita Laski, one of our best-known secular humanists an...