Bear Praise

Jack loved to hunt. Every winter he went out with his friends on the weekends looking for bear. One weekend, he couldn’t find a friend to go with, so he went out into the woods himself.

In the middle of a forest, he was taking a break when suddenly he was confronted by the largest, meanest looking bear he had ever seen. In his fear, all attempts to shoot the bear were unsuccessful.

Finally, he turned and ran as fast as he could in a vain attempt to outrun the bear. Jack ran and ran and ran, until he ended up at the edge of a very steep cliff. His hopes were dim.

Seeing no way out of his predicament, and with the bear closing in rather quickly, Jack got down on his knees, opened his arms, and exclaimed, “Dear Lord! Please give this bear some *religion*!”

The skies darkened and there was lightning in the air. Just a few feet short of Jack, the bear came to an abrupt stop, and glanced around, somewhat confused. He seemed to have become very calm and friendly...

Suddenly, the bear looked up into the sky, put his paws together, bent his head and said, “Thank you, Lord, for the food I am about to receive.”

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Praise the ripe field, not the green corn. - Unknown

I will praise any man that will praise me. - William Shakespeare

My parents put a live teddy bear in my crib. - Woody Allen

So we get the chinks we will bear the stinks. - English Proverb

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival. - Aung San Suu Kyi

Thanks, Darth Obvious. Or is it Emperor Palpable? - Chuck Wendig

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. - Edith Sitwell

I'd rather write about polar bears than people. - Mary Oliver

Every survival kit should include a sense of humor. - Unknown

Praise increases where the excellence is attained but by few. - Edward Counsel

I love criticism just so long as it's unqualified praise. - Noel Coward

Praise is a rebuke to the man whose conscience alloweth it not. - Eliza Cook

Nature Lover: A person who, when treed by a bear, enjoys the view - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Sandwich every bit of criticism between two heavy layers of praise. - Mary Kay Ash

Endurance is not only to bear the hard thing but to turn it into glory. - Win Barclay

The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart. - Robert Ingersoll

To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare. - Benjamin Franklin

To be blind is not miserable; not to be able to bear blindness, that is miserable. - John Milton

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate. - Oprah Winfrey

Forgive, forget. Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours. - Phillips Brooks

Thanks you for being a part of my life, whether you were a Reason, a Season, or a Lifetime. - Unknown

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know. - Homer

Five main components of worship: the Lord's Supper, teaching, prayer, praise, and giving. - Ravi Zacharias

I pay no attention whatever to anybody's praise or blame. I simply follow my own feelings. - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Praise the Lord. Blessed is the man who fears the Lord, who finds great delight in his commands. - Bible

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows. - Doug Larson

My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future. - Liza Minnelli

A word of encouragement during failure is worth more than a dictionary of praise following success. - Unknown

Your majesty, I thank you from the bottom of my heart, and Madame Houde thanks you from her bottom too. - Camillein Houde

Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end. - John B O'Reilly

We are all motivated by a keen desire for praise, and the better a man is, the more he is inspired to glory. - Cicero

Drunk Man: "I can't bear fools."
Dorothy Parker: "Apparently your mother could." - Dorothy Parker

The vine bears three kinds of grapes: the first of pleasure, the second of intoxication, the third of disgust. - Diogenes

Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you. - I Thessalonians 5:16-18

If you think that praise is due, now's the time to show it, 'cause a man can't read his tombstone when he's dead. - Unknown

Praise or blame has but a momentary effect on the man whose love of beauty in the abstract makes him a severe critic on his own works. - John Keats

When I am afraid, I will trust in you. In God, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I will not be afraid. What can mortal man do to me? - Bible

In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning. - Leo Tolstoy

Nature will bear the closest inspection. She invites us to lay our eye level with her smallest leaf, and take an insect view of its plain. - Henry David Thoreau

Got no checkbooks, got no banks,
Still I'd like to express my thanks -
I got the sun in the mornin'
And the moon at night. - Irving Berlin

see also Bear & Safety Sections
Bear Pinata
Bear Print
Bear Protection
Canadian Food Chain
Canadian High Five
Golf Gimme
Grizzly Bear Chair
I Found A Bear Cub!
Russian Car Pool
Salmon Fight

Bear Praise

Survival kit for bears

22-Sep-2020