Famous Words and Phrases

136. "Seek and ye shall find." These oft-quoted words of Jesus come from his Sermon on the Mount in Mathew 7:7. It is still generally used as advice or encouragement to those who need to be seeking.
137. "A wolf in sheep's clothing." Jesus created this phrase in Mathew 7:15 to describe religious leaders who appear righteous on the outside but are actually evil on the inside. We still use it to describe hypocrites or those who portray goodness while intending evil.
138. "The faith to move mountains." Although not currently used quite as often as it was in the Twentieth century, the phrase refers to the power of belief. The words were first said by the Lord Jesus in Mathew 17:20 when He was talking to his disciples about healing the sick and the demon possessed.
139. "The blind leading the blind." Jesus coined this phrase in Mathew 15:14 when describing false teachers who insist they know the truth but do not, therefore leading innocent people astray. In our culture we generally use it as a negative descriptor for the self-important and self-deluded.
140. "Do not throw pearls before swine." Jesus' words in Mathew 7:6 urge believers to take care with their message: it is not necessary to teach to those who are openly hostile to the Gospel. A person wouldn't throw precious pearls to pigs, and Christians shouldn't throw the gift of salvation to those who will only turn around and attack them.
141. "Eat, drink, and be merry." was a phrase created by Jesus in Luke 12 while telling a cautionary tale about a rich fool who thought the rest of his life was set. The fool died that very night. The words are still generally used in the sarcastic or perjorative sense.
142. "The straight and narrow." Following the small, less traveled path leads to the narrow gate of life. In Mathew 7:14, Jesus cautioned his followers against following the more glamorous, broad, and well-traveled path that led to a wide gate full of destruction.
143. "A good Samaritan." Someone who goes out of the way to help another can be likened to the famed character of Jesus' parable in Luke 10:30-37. The hero acts for the good of another with no thought to his own situation.
144. "Sweating blood" is a phrase used to describe someone going through a very difficult time. The etymology of the word relates back to Luke 22:44, Christ's anguish in the Garden of Gethsemane caused Him to sweat blood-something physicians say is, in fact, possible for those enduring great duress.
145: "The forbidden fruit" is one of many Old Testament phrases still used regularly in the English language. The original "forbidden fruit" was the fruit from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Adam and Eve were instructed to stay away from it in

Interesting Facts About Women III

The average U.S. woman has a height of 5 feet and 4 inches. As for the weight, the average is about 165 pounds. This is 35 or more pounds overweight for the height and build of the average North American women and gender plays a large roll. This number will vary a lot in the world, thanks to the many differences in prenatal care and nutrition.

Almost everywhere in the world, women have a higher life expectancy than men do.

Worldwide, there are more males than females (100 men vs approx 98.6 women).  In the U.S., women out number men by an average of about 4 million. As for the people which have more than 85 years, women are about twice as many as men and that increases with age.

27% of the female deaths are caused by heart disease and 22% is caused by cancer.

Women live longer than men, they are 2 times more likely to be either visually impaired or blind.

NFL history was made when Shannon Easton became the first woman to ever work as a line judge official in an NFL preseason game. She was a replacement official in the 2012 preseason game for the Green Bay Packers VS San Diego Chargers. The hat and whistle she used to officiate the game were kept by the Pro Football Hall of Fame and Museum and will be displayed. 

Katy Hayes of Texas is going down in history as the very first person in the U.S. to have a double arm transplant attempted on them. Katy says she wants to hug her children and husband and be able to wipe her own behind.



 

HOW MANY OF THESE DO YOU REMEMBER II?

Candy Cigarettes.

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.

Coffee shops with Table Side Jukeboxes.

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.

Newsreels before the movie.

P.F. Fliers.

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601). Party lines.

Peashooters.

Howdy Doody.

Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.

78 RPM records!

Green Stamps.

Mimeograph paper.

The Fort Apache Play Set.

Buying nearly everything out of the Sears Roebuck and Monkey Ward catalogs.

...as well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

If you can remember most or all of these, Then You Have Lived!!!!!!

HOW MANY OF THESE DO YOU REMEMBER?

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

It took 5 minutes for the TV to warm up?

Nearly everyone's Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?

Nobody owned a purebred dog? 

When a quarter was a decent allowance?

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

Your Mom wore  nylons that came in 2 pieces?

All your teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?

You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time? And you didn't pay for air? And, you got trading stamps to boot?

Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?

They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed...and they did it!

When a 57 Chevy was everyone's dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and went steady?

No one ever asked where  the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?

Lying on your back in the grass with your friends? and saying things like, "That cloud looks like a ..."?

Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?

And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace, and share it with  the children of today?

When being sent to the principal's office was nothing compared to the fate  that awaited the student at home?

Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.

TO ALL THE KIDS WHO SURVIVED THE 40s, 50s, 60s, and 70s!! (My Favorite)

First, we survived being born to mothers who took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.

Then after that trauma, we were put to sleep on our tummies in baby cribs covered with bright colored lead-based paints.

We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.

As infants & children, we would ride in cars with no car seats, booster seats, seat belts or air bags.

Riding in the back of a pickup truck on a warm day was always a special treat.

We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.

We shared one soft drink with 4 friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.

We ate cupcakes, white bread, real butter, and drank Kool-aid made with sugar, but we weren't overweight because, WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!

We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.


No one was able to reach us all day. WE WERE O.K.

We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.

We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games, no 150 channels on cable, no video movies, DVD's, surround-sound, CD's, cell phones, personal computers, internet, or chat rooms.........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!

We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones, teeth, and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.

We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.

We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays, made up games with sticks and tennis balls and, although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.

We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just walked in and talked to them.

Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!

The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!

When we did something we were not supposed to, or got into trouble, we got spanked (by a hand, a hairbrush, or a belt) or even worse we got our legs "switched" with a branch from a special bush grown in the backyard and even had to go cut it ourselves before it was used on us. But we never thought of calling the police or Social Services to report our parents for child abuse!

These generations have produced some of the risk-takers, problem solvers, and inventors ever!

Interesting Facts About Women II

-There are more women in the United States than men.
-Wyoming was the first U.S. state to grant a woman the right to vote.
-Cleopatra had 2 younger brothers and she married them both.
-Cleopatra first married at age 11.
-Approximately 2 of every 100 (2%) women in the world have a supernumerary nipple which is a 3rd nipple. Be proud of what ya got.
-Archeological researchers have made a recent claim to have found evidence that the Queen of Sheba did in fact rule over Southern Arabia which was then known as the capital of the Kingdom of Sheba.
-Although highly unlikely to succeed in a Sharia court, in Saudi Arabia an old law still in effect says that if a husband doesn't give his wife coffee that the woman can divorce him.
-The origin of the word "woman" is thought to be wyfman, a term from Middle English which means wife of man.
-There was a woman who was pregnant 17 months 11 days and is recorded as the longest human pregnancy ever.
-The female sex sign is represented by a small cross with a circle on top, the same one which represents planet Venus.
-There are many moons and stars which have female names, but from our solar system's planets only Venus is named after a female goddess.
-Human women's breasts are bigger from a proportional point of view than the other female mammals.
-Originally, the differentiation between women at different ages was done in the English language with the help of the terms maiden, mother and crone. The maiden was the young girl which wasn't married yet. The mother was the female in the years where she could bear children. The crone was the woman in the post-menopause period.

Monkey Facts (bestfunfacts.com)

Monkeys can become angry very easily.
Monkeys yawn when they are mad.
Monkey Size:
Baboon is the largest monkey (47 inches long, weighing 90 pounds).
The Pigmy Marmoset is the smallest monkey. It is about 5-10 inches tall, and weighs about 5 ounces.
Monkey Species:
There are about 125 species of monkeys.
Monkey species are divided into two main groups of primates, the New World Monkeys (Central and South America) and the Old World Monkeys (Africa, Asia, and a few from Europe). Most monkey species are part of the Old World Monkey grouping.
The main difference between New World Monkeys and Old World Monkeys is the nose. New World Monkeys have flatter and wider noses.
Some New World Monkey species are the following: Marmosets, Squirrel Monkey, Lion Tamarin, Red Howler Monkey, Owl Monkey, Spider Monkey, and Saki Monkey.
Some Old World Monkeys species are the following: Rhesus Macaque, Japanese Macaque, Red Colobus Monkey, Black Colobus Monkey, Patas Monkey, Hamadryas Baboon, and Savanna Baboon.
The Ape grouping includes the following: Chimpanzee, Bonobo, Gorilla, and Gibbon.
General Monkey Facts:
There are about 15,000 pet monkeys in the U.S.
Monkeys don't eat banana peels.
The male howler monkey can produce sounds that can be heard 10 miles away. This breed is found in South America.
Monkeys have tails not gorillas ( which are part of the Ape family).