Snippets

Just a couple of snippets :

C.S.Lewis : ‘Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in; aim at earth and you will get neither.’

C.S.Lewis again: ‘If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next.’

Elie Wiesel: Heaven – where questions and answers become one.’

Hymns for different occupations:

DENTIST ; ‘Crown Him with many crowns’.

CONTRACTORS: ‘The church’s one foundation.’

OBSTETRICIANS: ‘Come labour on’.

GOLFERS: ‘There is a green hill far away’.

POLITICIANS: ‘Standing on the promises’.

LIBRARIANS: ‘Let all mortal flesh keep silence’.

LAWYERS: ‘In the hour of trial’.

DRY CLEANERS; ‘O for a faith that will not shrink’.

CREDIT CARD USERS; ‘ A charge to keep have I’.

CENSUS TAKERS: ‘All people that on earth do dwell’.

TAXATION OFFICERS: ‘We give thee but thine own’.

TRAFFIC ENGINEERS: Where cross the crowded ways of life’.

(from ‘A Barrel of Fun’ J.John and Mark Stibbe, Monarch Books)