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Antonyms: bad feeling, acrimony, animosity, animus, antagonism, antipathy, aversion, bitterness, detestation, disgust, dislike, disrelish, enmity, friction, grievances, grudges, hatred, hostility, loathing, malevolence, malice

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526. God Bless America

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Brett Blair

... 't know what it was or what was going on and it was almost time to go to sleep. It was late. And, every time, my mother saw the flag, she would start crying. As an eight year old boy I didn't understand why, but from my mother's point of view we were finally safe. I may have been born in the country, that people throughout history have referred to as the promised land, but take my word for it...America is the promised land. For everybody. And don't be ashamed. Don't hesitate. We need to teach young people ...

527. Practice What You Preach

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Peter Wallace

... . Each pronoun agrees with their antecedent. Just between you and I, case is important. Verbs has to agree with their subjects. Watch out for irregular verbs which has crope into our language. Don't use double negatives. A writer mustn't shift your point of view. When dangling, don't us participles. Join clauses good, lie a conjunction should. Don't write a run-on sentence you got to punctuate it. About sentence fragments. In letters themes reports articles and stuff like that we use commas to keep a string ...

528. Defeating the Devil

Humor Illustration

Toward the end of Lent, I dressed up in a red suit with horns and a tail, carried a pitchfork and prepared to give one hell of a sermon. The idea was to get the congregation to hear the devil's story and point of view so that they could outsmart him. I started my carefully prepared monologue by walking out toward the congregation and asking cynically, "Okay, I'll bet there isn't a single person here who has kept up their Lenten promises without ever failing." A little girl, about nine years old, stood ...

529. In Through The Back Door

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Michael P. Green

In discussing the conversion of Jews, C. S. Lewis once said, “In a sense, the converted Jew is the only normal human being in the world.” He continued, “Everyone else is, from one point of view, a special case dealt with under emergency conditions.” That is a way of stating the truth about Gentile conversion. God opened a “back door” and let us in as emergency cases. There are a lot of us, but we remain “grafted-in branches.”

530. What Close-minded People Don’t Do

John 12:1-11

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James W. Moore

... the great nations of the world to sit down and talk things through?" And then, "Pow!" Lucy slugs him and says: "I had to hit him quick, he was beginning to make sense!!!" That's what closed-minded people do. They don't want to listen to another person's point of view. So, they hit them quick. They think that anybody who disagrees with them is the enemy... the enemy who must be silenced. And some, sadly, even go so far as to think that anybody who disagrees with them is the enemy of God.

531. A Literal Tragedy

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Harry Blamires

To become a Christian is to accept an extra dimension to life. From the Christian's point of view, the notable thing about the unbeliever's world is how much smaller it is. The unbeliever is imprisoned in a decaying universe. Imagine you took a child to the theater to see some tragedy like, say, Hamlet, at the end of which the stage was littered with corpses. And suppose ...

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

Benjamin Hoff

Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Christian Morgenstern

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

Paul Dirac

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Abigail Adams

The greatest triumphs of propaganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth.

Aldous Huxley

I respect the fact that many denominations have different points of view with respect to gay marriage and they can hold that in the sanctity in the place of their religion and not bless them or solemnize them.

Colin Powell

The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.

Denise Shekerjian

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Henry Ford

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

Mikhail Bakunin

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Robert M. Hutchins

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Samuel Butler

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Aldous Huxley

In fact men will fight for a superstition quite as quickly as for a living truth - often more so, since a superstition is so intangible you cannot get at it to refute it, but truth is a point of view, and so is changeable.

Hypatia

The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in.

C. S. Lewis

547. A New Vantage Point

Colossians 3:1-17

Sermon

Wayne Brouwer

Whenever people visit a beautiful, impressive church building, invariably there are two things they want to do: they want to go up to the pulpit and see how things look from this perspective; and then they want to go up in the balcony, if there is one, and look down on everything. And isn't that typical? There's something inside of us that needs to climb to the top and get the view from above. When we were children, we'd climb trees and build secret houses for ourselves up in the branches and spy down on ...

548. Taking the Long View

2 Peter 3:8-15a

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Donald Charles Lacy

So much seems to press upon us in our daily living that "taking the long view" may not only be remote but considered impractical and therefore shelved. A thousand years equals one day and one day equals 1,000 years. It all sounds so mystical and unscientific! Do you mean we have to rethink being captains of our own ships? That is so basic to the American way and you are suggesting we give it up? After all, we can accomplish anything we set out to do — that is if we just try hard enough. Planning is done ...

549. Point Of Origin

Genesis 1:1-2:3

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Harold Warlick

The beginning of the world's story is our story. This magisterial word "create" suggests no point of origin other than God. This creation is an absolute new beginning which carries profound implications for what it means to be a human being. For the universe and humankind to be created by God demonstrates the surprising and uncontrollable power of God. For humankind to be created in the image of God indicates a uniqueness that leads to a significant purpose in life. Despite the first five verses of the ...

550. Being A View Master

Romans 2:9-21

Sermon

Billy D. Strayhorn

There's an old Peanuts comic, Charlie Brown is busy with a woodworking project one day when Lucy comes by and asks: "How's the birdhouse coming along, Charlie Brown?" He replies, "Well, I'm a lousy carpenter. I can't nail straight. I can't saw straight and I always split the wood. I'm nervous, I lack confidence, I'm stupid, I have poor taste and absolutely no sense of design." And then in the last frame he concludes, "So, all things considered, it's coming along OKAY!" (1) Nobody would ever claim that ...

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526. God Bless America

Illustration

Brett Blair

527. Practice What You Preach

Illustration

Peter Wallace

528. Defeating the Devil

Humor Illustration

529. In Through The Back Door

Illustration

Michael P. Green

530. What Close-minded People Don’t Do

John 12:1-11

Illustration

James W. Moore

531. A Literal Tragedy

Illustration

Harry Blamires

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

Benjamin Hoff

Humour is the contemplation of the finite from the point of view of the infinite.

Christian Morgenstern

It seems that if one is working from the point of view of getting beauty in one's equations, and if one has really a sound insight, one is on a sure line of progress.

Paul Dirac

Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Abigail Adams

Aldous Huxley

Colin Powell

The person who can combine frames of reference and draw connections between ostensibly unrelated points of view is likely to be the one who makes the creative breakthrough.

Denise Shekerjian

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well as from your own.

Henry Ford

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

Mikhail Bakunin

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

Robert M. Hutchins

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

547. A New Vantage Point

Colossians 3:1-17