Sunday, January 31, 2010

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.

Thursday, January 28, 2010

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.
  

Monday, January 25, 2010

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.

Sunday, January 24, 2010

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

Saturday, January 23, 2010

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.
 

Friday, January 22, 2010

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

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

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?"

Monday, January 18, 2010

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.

Friday, January 15, 2010

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

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

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.