Major League Baseball player and umpire Ralph “Babe" Pinelli's philosophy of life is grounded in family, education, and God. And, he even believes baseball has been an important part of his life and beliefs.
Four years ago my husband and I left England with our three children to serve as medical missionaries on the mission field at Mount Silinda, Southern Rhodesia, and to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. We had waited...
There’s an old popular song entitled, Happiness is a Thing Called Joe. But to me, happiness is an attitude of the heart, mind, and soul that is brought about by an expanding service-filled type of living. The happy life is...
I was born in Brooklyn. My father died when I was 10, and my mother ran a stationery store to keep the family going. I had to go to work to help out, and before I was 14, I had...
More than fifty years ago, I left Mertha Tydfil, my hometown in Wales, for London. Looking back on a long and varied career, I ask myself, What has been the greatest single influence in my life? I am in no...
I believe I can live an abundant life, so am dissatisfied with an adequate life. I believe I can be constructively creative, so am not content with some accepted ruts of living. I believe these things are possible for me...
The challenge to tell others in simple fashion about the grounds of my belief has faced me with difficult self-examination and a discipline of humility. As I have thought about the pattern I wanted to make of my life and...
When I was a child, my father used to gather us all, my mother, my sister, and my brothers, to read us his favorite passages from the Bible. Although we sometimes resented this break in our personal activities, we loved...
The basis of my belief is shaped by a most unforgettable character, a woman. The story begins with a little girl, 2 years of age, as she stood in a country cemetery on a raw December day holding her 4-year-old...
