You know, I like some of these newfangled inventions. The puncture-proof tire is the one I like especially well. If you’re driving along with the ordinary tires, and a nail goes through them — whiss you lose all the air. But, a puncture-proof tire is different, if a nail goes through it, some stuff inside runs around and stops up the hole and the air stays.

You know, the heart of a Christian is like this puncture-proof tire. An ordinary heart may be filled with love, but when someone does something to puncture that heart, all the love runs out and hatred- -and hard feelings take its place. But, a puncture-proof heart is different; it is filled with the spirit of Christ, and someone through his words or actions punctures that heart, immediately the hole is stopped up tight and love stays in. “Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good” (Rom. 12:21)
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Fifteen hundred years ago there was a teacher who taught his students a lesson this way. He had them all stand in a large circle all facing towards the inside. Next, he told the students to begin slowly moving together, one step at a time, towards the center, toward God. As they moved inward, towards the center, the circle got smaller and smaller until the students were shoulder to shoulder. The lesson, of course, was you can't get closer to God without getting closer to each other. - Selected