Faith
Humor
Why Didn't Noah Swat Both Mosquitoes?
Plus Other Humorous Stories For Clergy
During World War II, in a Humphrey Bogart movie, a sailor says
he has faith in God, FDR, and the Brooklyn Dodgers -- in that
order. So, he says, the war will be won.
Sir Cedrick Hardwick, the British actor, was on a trans-
Atlantic flight in the pre-jet days. The plane developed engine
trouble and made an emergency landing in Gander, Newfoundland. As
the plane rolled to a stop, Hardwick, feeling very relieved
himself, turned to the proverbial little old lady next to him and
asked if she had been frightened.
"Heavens no," she said. "Why it wasn't even on our side of the
plane."
Ray E. Balcomb
Leslie Weatherhead told of a group during the London
blitzkrieg in World War II who were discussing faith and courage
and the ability to sleep at night with the bombs bursting in air,
and sometimes very close. One woman, a domestic cleaning woman
said, "Our preacher says that God neither slumbers nor sleeps.
And so I argues -- What's the good of both God and me lying
awake? So, I just says my prayers and then I says, 'To hell with
Hitler,' and then I goes to sleep!"
he has faith in God, FDR, and the Brooklyn Dodgers -- in that
order. So, he says, the war will be won.
Sir Cedrick Hardwick, the British actor, was on a trans-
Atlantic flight in the pre-jet days. The plane developed engine
trouble and made an emergency landing in Gander, Newfoundland. As
the plane rolled to a stop, Hardwick, feeling very relieved
himself, turned to the proverbial little old lady next to him and
asked if she had been frightened.
"Heavens no," she said. "Why it wasn't even on our side of the
plane."
Ray E. Balcomb
Leslie Weatherhead told of a group during the London
blitzkrieg in World War II who were discussing faith and courage
and the ability to sleep at night with the bombs bursting in air,
and sometimes very close. One woman, a domestic cleaning woman
said, "Our preacher says that God neither slumbers nor sleeps.
And so I argues -- What's the good of both God and me lying
awake? So, I just says my prayers and then I says, 'To hell with
Hitler,' and then I goes to sleep!"
