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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny.

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.

Polybius

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

R. Buckminster Fuller

When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

Richard Steele

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Robert Collier

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Samuel Johnson

As all human beings are, in my view, creatures of God's design, we must respect all other human beings. That does not mean I have to agree with their choices or agree with their opinions, but indeed I respect them as human beings.

Stockwell Day

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Terence

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

Wally Lamb

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Walt Disney

Business rapes relationships. It substitutes shallow frenzy for deep friendship. It feeds the ego but starves the inner man. It fills a calendar but fractures a family. It cultivates a program that plows under priorities. Many a church boasts about its active program: "Something for every night of the week for everybody." What a shame! With good intentions the local assembly can create the very atmosphere it was designed to curb.

Dr. Charles Swindoll

Anger is a divinely implanted emotion. Closely allied to our instinct for right, it is designed to be used for constructive spiritual purposes. The person who cannot feel anger at evil is a person who lacks enthusiasm for good. If you cannot hate wrong, it's very questionable whether you really love righteousness.

Dr. David Seamands

God wisely designed the human body so that we can neither pat our own backs nor kick ourselves too easily.

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2865. Verbose Grammar

Illustration

Staff

The original title of Noah Webster's first spelling book was "A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, Comprising an Easy, Concise, and Systematic Method of Education, Designed for the Use of English Schools in America, Part I, Containing a New and Accurate Standard of Pronunciation." It can still be purchased in bookstores today with the same title.

2866. Scribe

Ezra 7:6

Illustration

Stephen Stewart and Esther Lense

... a more specialized meaning, being used to translate the Hebrew word "sopher," a term which had undergone a change in meaning between the days of the Israelite kingdoms and the beginning of the Christian era. In early biblical Hebrew "sopher" usually designated an important court official. During the first two-thirds of the period of the second commonwealth (@400 B.C. to 1 A.D.), where Judea was successively a province of the Persian, Macedonian, and Roman empires, "sopher" meant an interpreter of scripture ...

2867. Movable Stone, Portable House

Matthew 16:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... control God’s mission and direction and make it our own. Like Peter, our stubbornness and confidence, while an asset in some ways, can also be a detriment, a “stumbling stone” when we become immovable and fixed in our ways instead of adaptable to God’s design. Jesus’ metaphor is perfect. Think of a stone embedded in a pathway that cannot be moved. If you are walking on that path, you can easily trip over it, because it is stubbornly and immovably in your way. A stone that is immovable can become a ...

2868. The Stop-and-Think Chair

Matthew 18:15-20

Sermon

Roy Howard

... home and yes, the church. It’s a silly thought, but still. Imagine if all communities — even, or especially, those where there is so much blood being shed against one another, so much violence flowing out of their lives — imagine if all communities had a public spot designated for the stop-and-think chair. You’ve heard of stop, drop, and roll in a fire? How about stop, think, and pray in a conflict? You don’t have to be humiliated with a dunce cap; just stop and think. When we allow for a moment ...

2869. Stay Awake!

Mark 13:24-37

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... can sleep through it. Or we can wake up to the promises — that we are loved, we are God’s, and we are people of destiny. It’s Advent. Wake up! And stay awake to the gifts of the power and presence of God in our midst. Those gifts are designed to revolutionize our lives. The revolution goes on. It’s going on right now. Rejoice and be glad!

2870. Don't Get Stuck!

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... , “A mind is a terrible thing to waste.” That’s the message of this gospel story. We can turn our lives away from the path that enriches and fulfills our lives, or we can turn from life’s gravel roads and mud tracks onto a road designed just for us — one that refuses to see any human life wasted and thrown away — including our own. Take the better road. Don’t get stuck in the mud. Repentance — changing our mind, turning around — is a good theme on which to meditate during Advent. It’s ...

2871. Seeking Joy

Philippians 4:2-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... that have no practicality except to add a little pizzazz to their work? For example, there is an anonymous manufacturer of cotton T-shirts who added these wash instructions to the inside tag: “For Best Results: Machine wash cold. Tumble dry low. Never iron [the design on the shirt].” He could have stopped there. But instead, he added, “For Worst Results: Drag thru puddle behind car. Blow dry on roof rack.” The next time you see a T-shirt being dragged through a mud puddle behind a car, you will know ...

2872. About Face!

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... , one of her favorite hobbies, but she couldn’t find prosthetic legs that allowed her to snowboard well. So Amy did a lot of research, partnered with the doctor who provided her with her prosthetic legs, and created new prosthetic legs designed for snowboarding. And she became the first woman to win a bronze medal in snowboarding in the Paralympic Games. Amy Purdy and her husband also founded Adaptive Action Sports, an organization that helps athletes with disabilities to participate in the sports ...

2873. God’s Quality Control Crew

Matthew 21:33-46

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... charge. Now Jesus doesn’t mean for us to believe that our efforts don’t matter. They do. That’s why we are the workers in the vineyard, God’s building and construction crew here on earth. But lest we forget, Jesus reminds us, we didn’t make the designs. We don’t own the vineyard. We don’t have the right to determine the blueprint for success or the terms of our hire. We do however have some say in the quality of the product. In fact, you might say, we are God’s quality control department. We ...

2874. The Jesus Straightway

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Great Pyramid. But the Romans perfected road technology, building a vast interconnected system throughout their acquired empire, opening up trade routes to every known city and town. In 2000 BCE, the Kings Highway connected Damascus and Palestine. The Via Appia was the first Roman-designed road, built in 312 BCE. By the time of Jesus in the first century, the Romans had built about 29 major highways. All in all, the Romans built about 53,000 miles of roadways during that time. By the end of the empire, they ...

2875. Did I Say That Out Loud?

Mark 8:31-38; 9:2-9

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... no wavering. Not death, or punishment, or banishment would sway their beliefs. Their faith had been strengthened. It was unwavering, that is until the cock crowed three times. If they had looked within then they would have seen that their presence at the Transfiguration was designed to bolster their faith for the march to the cross. Seeing Jesus for who he truly was and is, always strengthens our faith. For us today, the Lenten season is a time for us to reconnect to Jesus and his coming in his Father’s ...

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Leadership is intangible, and therefore no weapon ever designed can replace it.

Omar N. Bradley

We are but as the instrument of Heaven. Our work is not design, but destiny.

Owen Meredith

Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal; while others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than before.

Polybius

I look for what needs to be done. After all, that's how the universe designs itself.

R. Buckminster Fuller

When one has no design but to speak plain truth, he may say a great deal in a very narrow compass.

Richard Steele

Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Robert Collier

Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance.

Samuel Johnson

Stockwell Day

Perhaps believing in good design is like believing in God, it makes you an optimist.

Terence

The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.

Wally Lamb

You can design and create, and build the most wonderful place in the world. But it takes people to make the dream a reality.

Walt Disney

Dr. Charles Swindoll

Dr. David Seamands