Shut Up and Fish Story

Old Pete had a knack for catching fish. Every weekend Old Pete went
fishing and returned with dozens of fish. Nobody knew how he did it.
When other fisherman were unable to land more than three of four, Old

Story of The Two Frog Hanging in There

Two frogs fell into a deep cream bowl.
One was a wise and cheery soul;
The other one took a gloony view
And bade his friend a sad adieu.

Said the other frog with a merry grin,
"I can't get out, but I woun't give in!
I'll swim around till my strength is spent,
Then I will die all the more content."

And as the swam, though ever it seemed,
His struggling began to churn the cream
Until on top of pure butter he stopped
And out of the bowl he quickly hopped.

The moral, you ask? Oh it's easily found:
If you can't get out, just keep swimming around.

Story of Earthly Treasures

Knowing the would die soon, a rich man had all his assets conveted
into gold bars, put them in a big bag on his bed, drapped his body over
the bag of gold, and breathed his last. When he woke up, he was at the

Story of A Bad Future Investment

Ancient Egyptians fervently believed in an afterlife, So much so that
Egyptian burial rituals are the only custom familiar to most moderns. For
thousands of years their misguided faith motivated them to build
immense tombs with an ingenuity of design, as well as a cost in labor,

A Story Of a Get a Bigger Frying Pan

Two men went fishing. One man was an experienced fisherman, the
other wasn't. Every time the experienced fisherman caught a big fish, he

A Story Of The King Of The Universe

A doctor at a mental institution was making his rounds one evening when
he heard shouting from one of the cells.

Story of Where Did I Come From?

     A little boy had to write a report for school, so he went to his mother and asked,"Mom, where did I come from?"

STORY : New Ideas by William Barclay

Story title : New Ideas
By: William Barclay


    Normally nothing moves more slowly than a church. Religious people have a passion for the old.
    Some of today's most useful discoveries were made by men who dared to be and think different, and suffered for it. The man with something new always has to fight.
    The church branded Galileo a heretic when he taught that the earth moved round the sun.

STORY : Where Are You, Lord? by Brewer Mattocks

Story title : Where Are You, Lord?
By: Brewer Mattocks

     The parish priest in a town named Austerity climbed way up into the church's steeple to be nearer to the Lord. He wanted to hand down God's Word to his parishioners, like Moses of old. Then one day he thought he really heard God say something.
     So he cried aloud from the steeple, " Where are you, Lord? I can't seem to hear your voice clearly".
     And the Lord replied, "I'm down here among my people. Where are you?"

STORY : Influence Of Christianity by Bruno Hagspiel

Story title: Influence Of Christianity
By Bruno Hagspiel

    We have all heard the story of the "Mutiny on the Bounty," When nine mutineers, six local men, and ten local women were put ashore on Pitcairn Island. As a result of one of them making some crude alcohol, eventually all of them died except Alexander Smith. He found a Bible, read it, and decided to

STORY: Approachableness by William Barclay

Story title: Approachableness 
by William Barclay

      The Gospel story about the mothers bringing their children to Jesus to be blessed, tells the kind of person he was. Children would go to him. That is no small compliment. Many big men scare children away.
      A famous preacher once said that no one could be a follower of Jesus some people nowadays would, "They're only kids; don't bother about them."
   

STORY: Achievement by Edmund Bok

 Story title: Achievement
By: Edmund Bok

     There is a legend about an Indian chief who used to test the strength of his young braves by challenging them to climb up the side of the mountain as far as they could go without stopping. On an appointed day, four braves left at daybreak.
     The first returned with the branch of a spruce tree to show how high he had gotten. The second

STORY: Obedience Save by William Barclay

Story title: Obedience Save
by William Barclay


      A veteran Navy man insisted that discipline and obedience were absolutely essential. They had to condition a sailor to obey orders automatically and unquestioningly. His life might one day depend on that. He gave and example out of his own life.
    He was working on a tugboat which was towing a very heavy ship through rough seas. The vessel

STORY : Joy In Suffering by Joel Fritz

Story title : Joy In Suffering
by: Joel Fritz

    I remember a crippled man in the hospital where I was chaplain for a few years.  He was unbelievably disfigured. His body was twisted like a corkscrew and all he could do was sit in bed, day and night. If someone came to visit him, he could not even turn his head enough to make eye contact.
    Whenever I came around to visit him, my standard greeting would be, "Well, how are thing today?"

STORY: Mixing Priorities by Carlos Valles

Story title: Mixing Priorities
by: Carlos Valles

     If we like something very, very much, it can get our judgment out of focus. It can mix up our priorities. It can make us put the cart before the horse, or let the tail wag the dog.
    Take a practical case. A workman from Madang is delighted to find that buses going to lae now have television in them. So do the ones travelling to Goroka. Our man has to make his usual trip to Lae to go to work. He buys his ticket and hops aboard the bus. As he is taking his seat, he asks the

STORY: International Co-operation by Rockefeller Foundation

Story title: International Co-operation
by Rockefeller Foundation

   Whether we wish it or not, even in war we help our enemies, proving
that we are, despite our antagonism, one big, though sometimes unhappy,
family.
   An American soldier wounded by the Japanese owes his life to the
Japanese scientist Kitasato, who islolated the germ of tetanus. A Russian
soldier is saved by a blood transusion, which came to him from Landsteiner,

STORY: Goodness Gives You AWAY by Tony Castle

Story title: Goodness Gives You Away
by: Tony Castle


    There is an orintal fable about a man who owned a ring set with a
beautiful jewel. Whoever wore the ring became so pleasant in character that
everyone loved him. The ring was a charm that passed down from father
to son.
    But then, there was a father with three sons, all of whom he loved
equally. So he had two other rings made which looked exactly like the magic

STORY: A Prophet Away From Home by Jacob Braude

Story title: A Prophet Away From Home
By: Jacob Braude


     They tell this story about Nikita Kruschev, the former heavy set
head of Russia. He went to his tailor and asked him to make him a three
piece suit. The tailor took the big man's extensive measurements, then
measured the cloth Kruschev had brought along, and said that he did not
have enough cloth for a three piece suit. All he could make of it would be
trousers and a coat.
     Krushshev was unhappy and took back his cloth. Within a few days

STORY : Happy Ending by Herbert Prochnow

Story title: Happy Ending
By: Herbert Prochnow


     They tell the story of the old dog who saw a puppy chasing its tail, and
asked,"Why are you chasing your tail?"
      Said the puppy, "I have mastered philosophy. I have solved the
problems of the universe, which no dog before me had rightly soloved. I have

STORY : Keep Looking Up by Willi Hoffsuemmer

Story title : Keep Looking Up
By: Willi Hoffsuemmer

     While God was creating this earth, he asked the animals what wishes they had, and he fulfilled them all.
      But when the humans heard about this, they were upset because they had never been consulted. "We'll never be satisfied with the way this earth was made, "they complained to the Lord.
    "You're not supposed to be, "replied the Lord. "This earth was not meant to be your home. Heaven is your home."
      That is why, ever since then, animals walk with their eyes looking towards the earth, while humans stand erect and look towards heaven.

STORY : How A Conscience Works by June A. Westgaard

Story title: How A Conscience Works
By: June A. Westgaard

      Ann Connolly was shopping for groceries. While she was momentarily distracted, someone snatched her purse from her shopping cart.
      It so happens that Miss Connolly carries in her purse a talk back beeper device for telephone paging. So, as soon as she missed her purse, she hurried over to the store manager's office and dialed her own number into the telephone. This automatically activated her beeper talk back phone. Then she spoke into the manager's phone, knowing that her voice would be transmitted to the beeper in her purse, which was always turned up loud and clear for just such an emergency.
     One of the store attendants said afterwards that you should have seen that surprised man standing there with her purse and the purse was talking and saying for all to hear: " Take this purse to the manager's office, immediately!
    And he did!

STORY: Love Is Kind by Willian Barcly

Story title: Love Is Kind
by: William Barcly

      John Wesley on one of his countless journeys shared a carriage with an Army officer. They had a lively interesting conversation, but the officer's language was salted with swear words. Though it went against Wesley's grain, he showed no displeasure.
     When the coach stopped for a lunch break, Wesley used the opportunity to have a word with the officer. "I wonder if I might ask you a favor, "Wesley asked. " We will be travelling some distance together, and if I should forget myself and us a swear word in front of the ladies, would you kindly correct me?"
       The officer got the point immediately and painlessly/
        That it known as kindness in word.

STORY: Gambling by Fifth Wheel

Song title: Gambling
By: Fifth Wheel

     Any person who bets on the horses follows inspirations that come. One race track classic is the story of the perfect inspiration which came to a bettor when he visited the track on his birthday. It happened to be the fifth day of the fifth month. On the program he found a horse named Quintuplets, which means

STORY: Proposing Diplomatically by B.T. Botkin

Story title: Proposing Diplomatically
By: B.T. Botkin


      The man from the outback was very shy; the maiden was beautiful and seemed to him too wonderful to be asked for. He went on loving her silently for ten years. He built a fine home, with garden and barns, but he had not dared to propose.
       When everything was finished and furnished, he invited the maiden and her family over to see his

STORY : Lifeblood by Friedrich Dietz

Story title: Lifeblood
By Friedrich Diez

     An eight-year-old boy had just gotten over a serious illness, when his sister came down with the same sickness. The doctor knew that the only way to save her was to use the antibodies which had developed in the boy's blood. That would require a blood transfusion.
     So the doctor asked the little fellow if he would be willing to donate blood to his sister. The young

STORY: Weep No More, My Lady by Gems of Thought

Story title: Weep No More, My Lady 
By: Gems of Thought

When I quit this mortal shore, 

And live around this earth no more,

Don't weep, don't sigh, don't grieve, don't sob

I may have struck a better job.

Don't go and buy a large bouquet

STORY : Suffering As A Sign Of Love by Jewish Folklore

Story title: Suffering As A Sign Of Love
By: Jewish Folklore

    Two Jews once came to a small town rabbi and told him, " Our wise men at home have told us something that keeps bothering us because we can't understand what it means. They keep saying that we must with equal joy receive both the good and the evil which God sends. Tell us, rabbi, how can we possibly do such a thing?"
     "Well, I'll tell you, "answered the rabbi. "Just go over to the and told him their problem. He laid his

STORY : Keeping In Touch by Quote

Story title: Keeping In Touch
By: Quote

    Roger Schutz, director of Taize, the world famous ecumenical monastery in France, tells this story about one of his little nieces.
    She had grown up in the country of Zaire in Africa and had an African playmate who was her age. He was on orphan and was very lonely. He had built himself a little shack leaning against the high stone wall that separated the backyard of the girl's home from the open field where the little boy

STORY: The Complaint Book by Carlos Valles

Story title: The Complaint Book
By: Carlos Valles


      We seem to thrive on grievances. The first requirement in any registered establishment is a complain box, clearly visible. Sometimes its title is softened to "suggestion box."
      An Indian missionary tells this story on himself: "One day I was passing through a small out of the way station. There was not a soul around. But a sign in big red letters caught my eye. It proclaimed

STORY: Truthfullness by Paula Philips

Story title: Truthfullness
by: Paula Philips


      A group of young school teachers were taking a routine efficiency test. When they came to Part Three, they found a long list of book titles and authors. The directions said:" Check off the books you have read."
       When the examiners later checked the papers. they found that one third of the teacher had checked almost every book on the list. Some checked every one.

STORY: Freedom To Serve by Tony Castle

Story title: Freedom To Serve
By: Tony Castle

    Several hundred years ago a wealthy plantation owner was attracted by the heartbreaking sobs of a slave girl who was about to step up to the auction block to be sold. Moved by an impulse of compassion, he bought her for a very high price and then disappeared into the crowd.
     When the auction was over, the clerk came over to the sobbing girl and handed her her bill of sale,

STORY: Training By Example by Bert Balling

Story title: Training By Example
By: Bert Balling

      Albert Schweitzer is known all over the world as a theologian, a philosopher, a medical doctor, and a musician; but most of all, as a dedicated missionary who spent more than 50 years nursing lepers in the jungles of Lambarene  in West Africa.
     Once when he was on home leave back in Europe, some of his relatives asked him for some advice

STORY: Solving Troubles by H. Middle Swarth

Story title: Solving Troubles
By: H. Middle Swarth

   A barefoot boy of four was walking along the street eating an ice cream cone. Suddenly some bigger boys rushed around a corner and knocked the boy and his ice cream to the ground. The boy sat there glaring at the tragedy before him. Just then an old lady, who had seen it all happen, walked over to the child and said, "Laddie, the very worst thing has happened to you. But stand up, and I'll show

STORY: White Less Defined by Reader's Digest

Story title: White Less Defined
By: Reader's Digest


   Lillian Carter, the lively mother of President Jimmy Carter, had set up an interview with an aggressive woman reporter who made it clear with her very first question that she intended to take measure of this sharp tongued little woman and her upstart son.
    "Your son," the reporter began, "has been traveling the United States, telling people not to vote for

STORY: Playground Inspiration by Irene Sax in Newsday

Story title : Playground Inspiration 
By: Irene Sax

      Jane Nidetch was a 214 pound housewife. She was desperate to lose weight. After two steady months of dieting, she was still 50 pounds overweight. So she invited six overweight friends to her house to share her diet and talk about how to stay on it.
     Today, 28 years later, one million members attend 25,000 Weight Watchers' meeting in 24 countries every week.
     Mrs. Nidetch says she got her inspiration to help people take control of their lives, from a childhood

STORY: How God Hears All Prayers by Arthur Tonne

Story title: How God Hears All Prayers 
by Arthur Tonne


     "In the synagogue I heard different men praying men praying," said a puzzled little boy. " I must be awfully hard for God."
    "Why? What do you mean?" asked the rabbi gently.
    "Well, the woodcutter was praying for cold weather. The fruit seller was praying for mild weather.

STORY: The Grand Total Of It All by Willi Hoffsuemmer

Story title: The Grand Total Of It All 
By: Willi Hoffsuemmer

    They tell the story of an intelligent young king who ordered all the learned professor of his kingdom to gather and write down all the wisdom of the world. They got right down to work and forty years later, they had a thousand books packed with wisdom. The king, who had meantime reached sixty years of age, told them, "I cannot possibly read a thousand books. Reduce all that wisdom to basics."
    After ten more years the professors reduced the world's wisdom to a hundred volumes. "That's still

STORY: Happy Family Life by Willi Hoffsuemmer

Story title: Happy Family
by Willi Hoffsuemmer


     A poor woodcutter lived contentedly in a little house at the edge of the forest. He earned his daily bread by chopping down trees. But no matter how tired he was, he and his family always ended the day with laughing and singing.
     Every evening the king passed by this happy household as he was walking back to his castle. It

STORY: Identity Crisis by Carlos Valles

Story title: Identity Crisis
by: Carlos Valles

   They tell the story of a really "bushy" farm boy from way outback who had come into a big town for the first time in his life. He felt completely lost among the crowds that shoved him around the stores and supermarkets. The outdoor vegetable market was open even at night and so when our farm boy got sleepy, he found a hidden spot under one of the tables and laid himself down to sleep.

STORY: Albert Einstein's Old Clothes by Bert Balling

Story title: Albert Einstein's 
By: Bert Balling

   The genius of our century, Albert Einstein, had an innate dislike for new clothes. Not that he couldn't afford them or enjoy the new styles. No; it was just that he felt more comfortable in old clothes. And how he hated shopping for clothes: comparing them, trying them on, being measured for them.
    But his wife kept pestering him to get rid of his threadbare suit and go out and buy a new one. So

Christmas Story by James A. Feehan

Story title: Christmas Story
By: James A. Feehan

    One Christmas morning, a very upset mother came to a pastor and told him that her little boy of six was missing. Before doing anything, he listened to her story.
    The child had been writing to Santa Claus for a wheelbarrow. And, of course, it duly arrived on Christmas morning along with the other gifts. He disappeared with the wheelbarrow while his mother

Story: Rash Judgement by Willian Barclay

Story title: Rash Judgement
By: William Barclay


     One day, we boys were flying kites on an open lot in town. Mine took a dive into a garden surrounded by a high fence. I had heard all kinds of weird stories about the wicked old man who lived in the big house behind the fence. They said that if he caught children in his garden, he would torture them and lock them in a cave.
    Despite it all, I decided to go over that fence and get my kite. So my friends helped me to climb

STORY: Sharing And Sharing Alike by Willi Hoffsuemmer

Story title: Sharing And Sharing
By: Willi Hoffsuemmer

    We were playing cowboys and Indians. At supper time Joe's mother let him bring his place of rice out to tent, so he could eat as Indians do. So he crawled under his tent made out of a blanket and the four of us sat there watching him eat.  We would't be getting anything for another two hours.
    After downing his second spoonful, Joe suddenly remarked that real Red Indians did not only

STORY : Criticizing The Lord from Reader's Digest

Story title: Criticizing The Lord
from Reader's Digest


Mother Teresa of India often gives people unexpected advice. When a group of American teachers visited her in Calcutta, they asked her for some practical points to take home to their families.
   "Smile at your wives,"she told them. "Smile at your husband."
    Thinking perhaps that the advice was a bit too simplistic, coming from an unmarried person, one of them asked, " Are you married?"

STORY : The Lesson Of The Bicycle Wheel by Bert Balling

Story title: The Lesson Of The Bicycle
By: Bert Balling


    The abbot of a large monastery was asked by some visitors how so many monks of such different origins and different talents and personalities could live and work so harmoniously under one roof.
    He thought it over for a moment and then explained, "we are like a bicycle wheel. It has a rim, spokes and a hub in the middle. The rim is like the monastic wall around us. But that only keeps us together externally. Now from the rim a whole series of spokes together. We members of the

STORY: For A Favor, Ask Busy People by Peter Spangenberg

Story title: For A Favor, Ask Busy People 
By: Peter Spangenberg

    There was once a little flower standing alone in the desert. It was surrounded on all sides but sand and stones. The little flower dreamt daily of feeling some raindrops. She had been told how refreshing and important rain is. But none ever came. And so the little flower began to wilt. It was deathly afraid of the sizzling heat, of the loneliness, and of the howling wind.

STORY: Preachers' Problems by Gems of Thought

Story title: Preachers' Problems
by Gems of Thought


    A famous clergyman was preaching one Sunday in the summertime and noticed that many of his audience were drowsing. Suddenly he paused, and then in a very loud voice, related an incident that had no connection whatever with his sermon.
   It went like this:" I was once riding along a country road and came to the house of a farmer. I stopped for a bit when I saw something stranger that I had ever seen in my life. There was a sow

What Is A Real Christian by Bruno Horst Bull

Story title: What is A Real Christian
by: Bruno Horst Bull

    The new pastor chose as the topic for his first sermon:"What is a real Christian?" He climaxed each point of the sermon with the same question. And sometimes he nailed it down by slamming his fist onto the pulpit. He kept asking the question without answering it, hoping that each of the  parishioners would do that personally.
    On that particular Sunday, there was a little boy attending church with his mother, and the more often he heard that unanswered question, the more unsettled and nervous he became about it. At one

STORY: Johnny, The Walker by George Will

Story title: Johnny, The Walker
by: George Will

  Let us consider the virtues of walking. It is wine of life, good for body and soul, as many well-known people agree.
    Samuel Johnson walked 52 kilometers of muddy road out of Birmingham, England, every day. The philosopher Immanuel Kant walked so regularly through town that the shopkeepers set their clocks by

STORY: Marriage Problems Solved by B.A.Botkin

Story title: Marriage Problems Solved
by: B.A.Botkin


I have a neighbor in Kentucky who is 99 and still going strong. Some year ago, when he was a young man of 92, he was vigorous physically and mentally, did a full day's work, and walked as straight as a Red Indian. So I asked him, "What makes you so healthy and strong?"
    "Well, " my old friend answered, "before my wife and I were married, we entered into an agreement. Anytime I got angry with her or scolded her, she would take up here knitting, go out to the

STORY: How To Make A Job Easy by Corinne Updegraff Wells

Story title: How To Make A Job Easy
by: Corinne Updegraff Wells


When I was small, my brothers and I were expected to keep the vegetable garden weeded. Of course, we hated the job and we would put it off as long as possible and usually we ended up using a precious Saturday catching up on our work.
    One day a visiting uncle rambled into the garden and saw us there scowling at our work. He stopped and asked, "Do you boys know why you're pulling those weeds? It's because they are

STORY: A Home Is Where

Story title: A Home Is Where

    A real estate agent met a very modern woman, who had grown up in a big city. He tried to interest her in buying a new home.
    "A home!" she snapped."Why do I need a home? I was born in a hospital, grew up in boarding schools, was educated in a college, did my company keeping in automobiles, and was married in a church.

STORY: Learning To Fall by Rev Wm Phifer

Story title: Learning To Fall
by : Rev Wm Phifer


     What we today call the youth culture is really not new. Through the ages, young people have made significant contributions. Consider the accomplishments of these"kids":
    Alfred Tennyson wrote his first classic at 18.
    Napoleon had conquered Italy when he was 25.

STORY: Sunday Collection by Douglas Woodruff

Story title: Sunday Collection
By: Douglas Woodruff

    They tell the story about two English coins: the red penny and the valuable half crown. As they were being manufactured in the Royal Mint, they got acquainted. They passed along the assembly lines near one another, and as they left, to be put into circulation in the country, they decided to keep in touch and tell the story of their adventures whenever they met.

STORY: One Day At A Time by Les Stanwood

Story title: One Day At A Time
By: Les Stanwood

      When 52 Americans were held hostage at the embassy in Teheran, Iran, Thomas Schaefer was the senior military officer of the group. Of a total of 444 day in captivity, he spent more than 100 in solitary confinement.

STORY: Yesterday, Today, Tommorow by Gems of Thought

Story title: Yesterday, Today, Tommorow
by Gems of Thoughts

Today is in the full bloom of life,

The petals of yesterday have shriveled into the past.

Tomorrow is an unopened but.

Today is a gorgeous blossom of beauty and fragrance.

It is yours-for today.

Today is a new page in the book of life.

It awaits your pen.

STORY: Blacks And Whites by Dr. Fredrik Schlotz

Story title: Blacks And Whites
By: Dr. Fredrik Schlotz

    Some years ago a missionary revisited a congregation in Tanzania. After the service, the pastor called upon the oldest member of the congregation to present the gift they had for the visitor. Barefoot and dressed in tattered clothes, the man carried in his crippled hands a baton carved from ebony wood and wrapped in an old newspaper. Ebony is normally very black, but there may be light spots where branches have grown out of the tree's trunk. The baton had a sizeable light spot at one end.

STORY A Long Letter From God by Bert Balling

Story title: A Long Letter From God  by Bert Balling     In the third century, a monk called Antony lived a lifetime all alone in the endless desert of Egypt. Despite his isolation, he kept up a lively correspondence with many of the prominent personalities of the day. Emperor Constantine would write to ask for his advice. Other hermits would write asking for his prayers.

STORY Fatherhood by Edgar Guest

Story title: Fatherhood 
by Edgar Guest

Someday the world will need a man

of courage in a time of doubt,

And somewhere as a little boy,

that future hero plays about.

Within some humble home, no doubt,

that instrument of greater things

No climbs upon his father's knee

of to his mother's garments clings.

And when shall do God's mission here

may be your little boy or mine.

STORY Why Burial Is Better After Death by Ken Wall

Story title:  Why Burial Is Better After Death
by: Ken Wall


    The Wilkinsons of Sussex, England, received what they thought was
a gift package of herbs from Austrilian relatives. So they stirred the
contents into a traditional Christmas cake, ate half of it, and put the
remainder in the refrigerator.

STORY: The Cheeky Student

Story title: The Cheeky Student

The college professor had given a long lecture. When it was over, the asked for questions. One student stood up and demanded documentary proof for every statement which the professor had made in the lecturer.

Story : The Problem Of Youth by William Barclay

Story title: The Problem Of Youth
By: William Barclay

    Someone has tried to compare the problems of young people to those of the flying fox or fruit bat.
    When the world was created, the flying fox found no other creature quite like himself. He wanted some companionship and so he made his home with some birds.
    This was all right for a time, but one day one of the birds said to him, "Why do you live with us? We are birds, but you don't seem to be one of us even though you can fly. You look very much like a mouse. Don't you think you'd be happier living with the mice.?"

Story : Misjudging Wrongs by Arthur Tonne

Story title: Misjudging Wrongs
By: Arthur Tonne

    A man who had lost his hat decided that the simplest way to replace it was to go to church and steal one from the entry.
   once inside, he heard a sermon about the ten commandments. Coming out, he was greeted by the minister and said to him, "I want you to know, sir, that you saved me from crime today. I came here with

Story: How To Win In Court by Jacob Braude

Story title: How To Win In Court
by: Jacob Braude

    There is an old Jewish story which goes like this. A certain man had three friends. He liked two of them; but had little use for the third. One day he was ordered to appear in court. Alarmed, he looked around for someone to defend him. He immediately thought of his two favorite friends. One said, " No way! I'am not going into any court."The second said, "I'll go as far as the king's gate, but no farther, " In despair the man then asked his least loved friend for help. He said, "Sure, I'll come." And he did come, and he defended the man so well that he won his case.

Story: Good Example by Tony Castle

Story title: Good Example
By: Tony Castle

    A blind man visited his friends. It was dark when he left and so they gave him a lantern. "Thank you, "he said, "but I don't need one. Light or dark, it is all the same to me."

FREE STORY: Faith In People by William Barclay

     A boy was misbehaving in class and the teacher sent him to the principal's office. After hearing his story, the principal took out a blank notebook and wrote the boy's name on the cover. While he was writing, he said to the lad, "You have not been sent to me before. Now, I don't know you; you might be a

STORY: God In Nature by Alexis Carrell

    Just take a look at a little honeybee. He organizes his own little city. He builds 10, 000 cells for storing honey, 12,000 cells for eggs. and a holy of holies for the queen bee.
    If the bee notices the temperature rising, it worries about the honey melting. So it sets up a cooling

Story : Truth Can Be Tested by Tony Castle

    A Chemist at Queensland University in Australia pours certain quantities of various acids or compounds or elements into a laboratory test tube and then he heats the mixture. He gets a certain result. He then writes down a very accurate report of exactly what he did and how he did it. This is published in a scientific journal in London.

Story : The Many Hands In Government by Bruno Hagspiel

    Emperor Frederick the Great of Germany had a hard time balancing his country's budget. He invited a group of financial experts to a banquet to discuss the situation. He said he could not understand why even with very high taxes, not enough money was coming into the government treasury.

Story : You Are A Road by William Barclay

    In Malaya during the Second World War, a sympathetic farmer was helping an escaping prisoner of war to make his way to the coast, and from there to freedom. The two were stumbling through a virtually impenetrable jungle. There was no sign of human life and not even the slightest trace of a path.

Story Of A Laugh At Hell by Tony Castle

    It was in the center of Africa and the pastor had just delivered himself of a fire and brimstone sermon on hell. In order a visual dimension to his words, he dug a poster card picture out of his collection and hung it on the church bulletin board. It was an ultra realistic painting of the pains of hell by that famous French Bible illustrator called Dore.

Story: God Inside Man by Rudyard Kipling

     The famous English classical writer Rudyard Kipling tells the following story.
    Once upon a time when the gods were so new that they had no names, they were envious of man. Man was still so new that the clay form which he had been made was still wet and damp. But even man claimed that he was a good of some kind.

Nice Story The Gentle Touch by William Barclay

     Some city boys were living on a farm during vacation time. One day a calf got out of the barn and the three of them were trying to get it back in. So one of them pulled on its little horns and the other two pushed from behind. But the more they pulled and pushed, the more the calf just stiffened its legs and stood there.

Story: I Told You So by Walther Birkmayer

        A French physician went to the public beach for a swim. As he was changing into his swimming suit in the bath house, he heard a man in the next cell coughing very badly. He waited for the man to come outside. When a huge muscular athlete appeared, the physician approached him and said,”Excuse me, sir. I am a doctor. If I could give you a bit of advice, I’d say: watch out for that cough you have. It might seem harmless right now, but it could develop into something nasty.”
      

Story Compensation by Hermann Schreiber

          Mark Twain was a famous American humorist of the last century. Many people know that his real name was Samuel Langhorne Clements, but few people know why he never used it.

         Mark Twain, in nautical language, means: two fathoms deep. It was the pen name of a Mississippi river boat captain, whose real name was Isaiah Sellers.

Free Story Of Love Defeating Temptation by William Barclay

    A man sat at the door of his house smoking his pipe. His neighbor sat beside him, tempting him, "You are poor, " said the neighbor. "You are out of work. Here is a little deal that will help you. It will be an easy job: we only work at night.. and it will bring you money. and it's no worse that what lots of respectable people do every day. How about coming along right now?"
 

Story Of The Prayer Of A Clown by Bert Balling

    Once there was a clown who walked from town to town, entertaining people with his dances and tricks and magic. Then one day he got tired of it all and joined a monastery. He wanted to spend the rest of his life honoring God in silence and prayer. But after a while all this prayer and silence dried him up spiritually and he became sad.
   

Free Story : Fullfillment by Renate Sprung

    It was a beautiful day in spring. The lawns were a fresh green, the trees were flowering, the birds were singing and chirping. Along the sidewalk a woman was slowly shoving a baby buggy. Every now and then she would stop and speak some soft tender words to her baby. There was a material pride and joy all over her face.
  

Story: Fairness by Jessimine Paret Knight

      My brother and I always came home from school hungry. One day when we asked for something to eat, Mum set a little cake before us on the kitchen table. Placing a knife beside the cake, she said, "Now, one of you divide it. And the other gets the first choice."
    

Story : No Time For Children by William Barclay

    A young man stood before a judge to be sentenced for cheating and forgery. The judge had been a great friend of the boy's father, who was famous for his books on the law.

Story: One Way To Stop A Quarrel by Friedrich Dietz

  A man living in a small town had a nice backyard garden. But his next door neighbor kept a flock of chickens who easily found their way through the holes in the fence and helped themselves to his vegetables. The gardener wondered how he could solve his problem and keep peace in the neighborhood.

Story of Communication By Gift - By Readers' Digest

  In PNG culture there is no such thing as a stringless gift. Any gift received must be repaid somehow, somewhere, sometime.
  In other cultures one must be aware that gifts convey specific messages. For example, in China never give someone a clock as a gift. It is taken to remind the receiver of his or her march toward the

Story Of What Would Jesus Have Done? By Maxine Davis

  I was working at the supermarket check out counter and my nerves were badly on edge. Up came a little boy with a loaf of bread, "That will be one dollar and nine cents," I told him, as he dumped a fistful of change onto the counter.

  He looked at me apologetically and with trembling fingers tried to push the coins together. I counted

Discouragement Story By Bruno Hagspiel

 Once upon a time the devil decided to go out of business. He offered all of his tools for sale. He attractively displayed the whole bad looking lot: Malice, Hatred, Envy, Jealousy.. Each was marked with a price tag.

Temptation Story by Bruno Hagspiel

 An American Indian was giving testimony at a pentecostal meeting. He was talking about his tempations and put it this way:
  "My brothers, I seem to have two dogs fighting in my heart. One is a very good dog, a beautiful

So You Have It Tough? Story by Gordon Abion

  A man I know was badly injured by a drunken driver at the age of fifteen. He lost a leg. He was happily married, and then after six years, his wife left him for another man. But he determined to make the best of life for himself and for others. So he got the idea of becoming a pen pal to some cripple worse off that he was.
 

Story Of Chickens And Church Collection by William Barclay

  There was a lady farmer who had a special way of supporting her church. One day she came up to the parish priest and put two hundreddollar into his hands for the parish building fund.

Story Of Pain Does Good by Bert Balling

  A lady tourist was visiting mountainous Switzerland. One day side walked up to a sheep pasture on a hillside. There sat a shepherd with his flock of sheep lying at rest around him. Nearby on a little pile of grass lay asked which seemed to be in pain. It was; it had a broken leg. The lady asked the shepherd, "How did it happen?"

The Story Of Who Fills Cemeteries by Walther Birkmayer

  The historic German ruler, Frederick the Great, used to give this advice to his friends, "If you get sick and have to see a doctor, choose one who has already filled a couple of cemeteries."

  Sometime later, a young specialist doctor was presented to him. So the first thing old Fritz, as he was

Story of The Validity Of Religions

Down at the local coffee shop, two farmers were arguing about the validity of their respective religions. 
A third farmer listened for a while and then observed out loud,"I's been bringin' my wheat here to this same mill for over forty years. Now, there be two roads

Story of The Christmas Gift That Hurt - O.Henry

The great American short story expert, O. Henry, wrote a famous Christmas story. It is about a young married couple who were very much in love. Christmas was approaching and they wanted to give a present to one another. But they were very poor and had no money for presents. So each one, without telling the other, decided to sell his or her most precious possession. The girl prized above all else her long golden hair. She went to a hairdresser and had it cut off. She then sold it to buy a lovely watch chain for her husband's watch.

Happiness Story - After Sengai

A sick man asked an oriental mystic to write some inspirational thought that could be treasured from generation to generation. So the guru wrote" Father dies, son dies, grandson dies."
The sick man, who was also very rich, was upset at the words and complained, "Is that what you call a happy message for my family?"

Story : Praise Is Good

By: Jack Denton Scott in Readers' Digest

The great English writer and painter, John Ruskin, has observed that some of the greatest successes of the human race have been caused by love of praise. This is especially true in childhood. But all too often parents turn children away by pointing out only their faults and mistakes. A wise parent make it a point to praise a child when he or she deserves it. It can work wonders.

Are You A Worrier? Nice Story

This woman was so worried and anxious about her health condition. Because her grandmother died of a stroke and her father also suffered from a stroke before passing away, she presumed that one day she would experience the same fate as her grandma and dad. She was informed by her mother that once she feels any numbness in her lower legs or extremities she has to fight it and wake herself up

Story About A Rich Farmer - How Much is Enough?

There is a story about a rich farmer who was about to die but unfortunately had no heir. He chose one of his trusted caretakers and asked the caretaker to meet him the next morning exactly at 6:00 a.m. He's going to grant the caretaker a piece of land. The caretaker got so excited that he hardly slept the whole night. When sunrise came, the rich farmer told his loyal caretaker, " Can you see my land? It is

Story About A Rich Man

There was a man who worked all his life and saved all of his money. He was a real miser when it came to his money. He loved money more than anything. Just before he died, he said to his wife, "Now listen, when I die, I want you to take all my money and place it in the casket with me. I want to take my money to the afterlife." So he got his wife to promise him with all her heart that when he died she would put all the money in the casket with him.