Legacy Youth Ministry Resources

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When You Are Alone

What a man is when he is alone is what he is.

A Rock for a Nice Doggy

Diplomacy is the art of saying ?Nice Doggy? until you can find a rock.

Eisenhower on Integrity

The supreme quality for a leader is unquestionably integrity. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower, former American President

Sermon Illustrations as Lies

It has been said that there are three kinds of lies: white lies, black lies, and sermon illustrations. -- Dennis Atwood, (Christian Ministry, Nov.-Dec., 1996, p. 37)

Who Do I Shoot First?

A young sentry, on guard duty for the first time, had orders not to admit any car unless it had a special identification seal. The first unmarked car the sentry stopped contained a general. When the officer told his driver to go right on through, the sentry politely said, ?I?m new at this sir. Who do I shoot first, you or the driver?? (Source: Joe Griffith, Speaker's Library of Business Quotes)

On Picking Good Men

"There are only three rules of sound administration: pick good men, tell them not to cut corners, and back them to the limit; and picking good men is the most important." American political leader Adlai Stevenson

Ed McMahon on Honesty as the Best Policy

Honesty is the single most important factor having a direct bearing on the final success of an individual, corporation, or product. Famous American TV celebrity Ed McMahon

Line of Least Resistance

The line of least resistance makes crooked rivers and crooked men. Bob Murphey, humorist

Honest Companies Succeed

?After over thirty years on Wall Street, I have seen many firms who thirty or even twenty years ago occupied the front rank, recede into positions of comparative unimportance, and I have seen other firms, who two or three decades ago were quite unimportant, come to the front and become leaders in domestic and international finance. The reason is they had been more honest than those who were the leaders at one time.? (Jacob Schiff, who led the investment firm Kuhn, Loeb & Company to an industry leader)

The Price of Compromise

When the space shuttle Challenger lifted into the sky and blew up seventy-three seconds into its flight, the world was shocked. Most of us have seen the videotape of that terrible moment many times. And we can recreate the picture in our minds of a deep blue sky marked with twisted trails of smoke and large chunks of metal plummeting toward the ocean. And we know, as we recall the grim specter of the explosion, that among the falling pieces were the bodies of some of America's finest men and women. Most of us also know that the investigations into the cause of the tragedy pointed out some serious shortfalls in human judgment and materials management. The New York Times put it frankly: the ultimate cause of the space shuttle disaster was pride. A group of top managers failed to listen carefully to the warnings of those down the line who were concerned about the operational reliability of certain parts of the booster rocket under conditions of abnormal stress. The people in charge were confident that they knew best and that they should not change the launch schedules. They were wrong. -- Gordon MacDonald, Rebuilding Your Broken World.

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