"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting." --Mary Wortley Montagu

"When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes." --Erasmus

"Don't underrate yourself. Humility deserves honor and respect, but a low opinion of yourself leads to sin." --Sirach

"It is a happy person who is concerned with wisdom and who uses good sense." --Sirach

"There is no excuse for a person to run himself down. No one respects a person who has no respect for himself." --Sirach

I wrote a book called: "Your Sperm Won--Experiencing Your Value As A Championship Human Being". It is about self-esteem and personal worth. Most people know they have value as a person, but they don't experience it -- they don't really feel it or believe it strongly.

This book gives dozens of practical techniques on how to achieve practical self-esteem. For more information on hot to purchase it or comments on my blogs, e-mail me at stsimms@hotmail.com

This poem is not in my book but it does describe the theme of the book.

A million million spermatoza,
All of them alive:
Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah
Dare hope to survive.

And among that billion minus one
Might have chanced to be
Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne --
But the one was me.

--Aldous Huxley

"The willing contemplation of vice is vice." --Arab proverb

Watchman Nee was a Chinese Christian leader who established house churches across China until the communists arrested him in the early 1950's. He eventually died in prison His books are wonderful! Get them and read them.

My favorite is "The Normal Christian Life". His theme is that we don't see much normal Christianity in our day. Our Christianity is sub-normal. Watchman Nee says: "By the time a Christian gets his temperature up to normal, most people think he has a fever."

Another great book by Nee is "The Spiritual Man". It is a three volume set that deals with Christian spirituality.