Church Observations

  • Some people are kind, polite, and sweet-spirited until you try to get into their pews or their favorite church parking spot.
  • Many folks want to serve God, but only as advisers.
  • It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one.
  • We were called to be witnesses, not lawyers.
  • When you get to your wit’s end, you’ll find God lives there.
  • People are funny. They want the front of the bus, middle of the road, and the back of the church.
  • Opportunity may knock once, but temptation bangs on your door for years.
  • Quit griping about your church; if it was perfect, you couldn’t belong.
  • The phrase that is guaranteed to wake up an audience: “And in conclusion.”
  • If the church wants a better pastor, it only needs to pray for the one it has.
  • Not only are the sins of the fathers visited upon the children, but nowadays the sins of the children are visited upon the fathers.
  • God Himself does not propose to judge a man till he’s dead. So why should you?
  • To make a long story short, don’t tell it.
  • If your left hand doesn’t know what your right one is doing, you should consider running for a job in Washington.
  • Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set.
  • I don’t know why some people change churches. What difference does it make which one you stay home from?
  • A lot of church members are singing “Standing on the Promises” while they are just sitting on the premises.

Medical Truths

  • The patient furthest away from the nurses’ station rings the call bell more often than the patient nearest to the nurses’ station.
  • You always remember “just one more thing” you need after you’ve gowned, gloved, and masked and gone into that isolation room.
  • The correct depth of compression in adult CPR is a bit less than the depth you just reached when you broke those ribs.
  • When you cancel extra staff because it’s so quiet, you are guaranteed a rash of admissions.
  • If you wear a new white uniform, expect to be thrown up on. Corollary: Residents always poop on your brand new shoes.
  • There is always a way, and it usually doesn’t work.
  • When management smiles at you, be afraid, very afraid …
  • Staffing will gladly send you three aides–but you have to float two of your RNs.
  • As soon as you discontinue the IV line, more fluids will be ordered.
  • Mandatory meetings are always scheduled after you’ve had the night from hell and just want to go home to bed.
  • You always forget what it was you wanted after you get to the supply room. You always remember when you get back to the other end …
  • Doctors only ask your name when the patient isn’t doing well.
  • Success occurs when no one is looking, failure occurs when the boss is watching.
  • The more sophisticated the equipment, the longer it takes to get repaired.
  • Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
  • As soon as you’ve ordered the pizzas, 25 patients show up at the ER registration desk along with three ambulances all with cardiac arrests!

Parental Observations

  • A baby usually wakes up in the wee-wee hours of the morning.
  • A child will not spill on a dirty floor.
  • A young child is a noise with dirt on it.
  • A youth becomes a man when the marks he wants to leave on the world have nothing to do with tires.
  • An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.
  • Avenge yourself; live long enough to be a problem to your children.
  • Be nice to your kids, for it is they who will choose your nursing home.
  • God invented mothers because he couldn’t be everywhere at once.
  • Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
  • Having children will turn you into your parents.
  • If a child looks like his father, that’s heredity; if he looks like a neighbor, that’s environment.
  • If you have trouble getting your children’s attention, just sit down and look comfortable.
  • It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did to educate his father.
  • It rarely occurs to teenagers that the day will come when they’ll know as little as their parents.
  • Money isn’t everything, but it sure keeps the kids in touch.
  • Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.
  • One child is often not enough, but two children can be far too many.
  • You can learn many things from children… like how much patience you have.
  • Summer vacation is a time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid.
  • The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
  • There would be fewer problems with children if they had to chop wood to keep the television set going.
  • Those who say they “sleep like a baby” haven’t got one.