Welcome to Today’s Word Is … A Daily Devotion (M-F) by Chaplain Mark Davis … If this made a difference in your life today, please leave me a comment.
The Paradoxical Commandments
by Dr. Kent M. Keith
People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. — Love them anyway.
If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. — Do good anyway.
If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies. — Succeed anyway.
The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow. — Do good anyway.
Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. — Be honest and frank anyway.
The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds. — Think big anyway.
People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs. — Fight for a few underdogs anyway.
What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. — Build anyway.
People really need help but may attack you if you do help them. — Help people anyway.
Give the world the best you have and you’ll get kicked in the teeth. — Give the world the best you have anyway.
© Copyright Kent M. Keith 1968, renewed 2001
Blessings Always!
Chaplain Mark
Thank you, Kathi. You are a blessing!
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