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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Stendhal

By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues and vices which they possess, even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odors.

The Panchatantra

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Thomas Hardy

Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

Victoria Ocampo

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Caleb "Walter" Colton

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

William Lyon Phelps

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Stendhal

584. In diem natalem

Titus 2:1-15

Sermon

Ron Love

... Day we know that God has come down from the heavens to earth, and we are bathed in the beams of God’s light. Christmas did not really become secularized until the middle of the nineteenth century. In the mid-nineteenth century Christmas began to acquire its association with an increasing secularized holiday of gift-giving and good cheer. This view was popularized in Clarke Moore’s poem A Visit from St. Nicholas in 1823, and Charles Dicken’s story A Christmas Carol in 1843. These are stories that we ...

585. Not Such a Difficult Question

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

King Duncan

... family. But as soon as you move into a stone house, you build a door. On the door you put a lock, and behind your door you begin to accumulate more and more things. Then you have to spend the rest of your life protecting all that you have acquired.” (6) Ouch! That’s a tough story for us to hear. We live in an individualistic culture. We expect everyone to mind their own business and take care of their own needs. We are the people living in stone houses. And Jesus is challenging us with this teaching. Do ...

586. Three Little Pigs

Humor

A first grade teacher was reading the story of the Three Little Pigs. She came to the part of the story where the first pig was trying to acquire building materials for his home. She said, "And so the pig went up to the man with a wheelbarrow full of straw and said, ''Pardon me sir, but might I have some of that straw to build my house?''" Then the teacher asked the class, "And what do you think ...

587. The Jesus Straightway

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... the southern coast of Greece using sandstone bound with clay and gypsum mortar and covered in flagstone. In 2500 Egypt built a paved road that led to the 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 ...

588. Knowledge

Genesis 3:1-19 · Psalm 90

Sermon

Will Willimon

... before you're able to say anything definite about what is good or evil.") You assume that your sense of vulnerability is a temporary by-product of being a student, that someday it will be possible for you, perhaps here at the university, to acquire enough self-understanding, enough knowledge, so that you'll know enough to be smart enough, adult enough to have overcome adolescent anxieties. By graduation, if all goes well, we will have succeeded in deceiving some of you into thinking that this has actually ...

589. Holy Extravagance

Mark 14:3-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

... at fairly close range. If you stand in Duke Gardens this afternoon, or any afternoon in Spring, that's what you see extravagance. People in love tend toward extravagant behavior. They make a good deal of throwing frisbees. They sing, write poetry, acquire new wardrobes and hairstyles, cry, shout, dance. They are subject to the wildest, most extreme shifts of mood. A careless line in a letter from their beloved throws them into bitter depression. A momentary glance from the object of their affection hurls ...

590. Out of the Saltshaker

Mark 9:38-50

Sermon

King Duncan

... their debts. Salt has been considered very valuable even in our land all the way up current times. During the Civil War, General Sherman of the Union Army charged one of his captains with aiding the enemy for letting the rebels acquire salt. “Without salt they cannot make bacon and salt beef,” he said about the Confederate troops. “Salt is eminently contraband,” Sherman insisted, “because [of] its use in curing meats, without which armies cannot [subsist].” (7) We simply cannot over emphasize ...

591. Metaphors Be with You

John 6:35, 41-51

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

His name was John Davis, he was my neighbor, and he was a peculiar person. Don’t get me wrong. I liked him but even his wife said John was an “acquired taste.” I sometimes think that, had he been born thirty or forty years later, he would have been correctly diagnosed as having Asperger’s Syndrome or some other condition associated with the higher functioning end of the Autism spectrum. He was a gifted man, to be sure, a tool designer ...

592. The Favorite

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... and plans. And by placing someone or something on those pedestals, we no are no longer respecting or honoring them for who they are, nor trusting them for the wisdom they wield, but we are demanding of them to fulfill our wishes and wants. We are using them to acquire our own visions and needs. When someone or something disappoints us, it’s because our own vision or goal has been taken away or revealed to be a false direction. I think all of us at one time or another have put Jesus, yes even Jesus, on one ...

593. A Day of Passion, Praise and Prophesying

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

... someone else. They adopted the slogan “Each One Teach One,” and encouraged new learners to pass on their skills to others in their community. It didn’t take much encouragement because the new learners were so overjoyed and empowered by their newly acquired ability to read and write in their own language that they were passionate about sharing the gift of literacy with their friends and neighbors. Since it was developed in the 1930s, Frank Laubach’s “Each One Teach One” system has been used to ...

594. Bigger, Better, Basta!

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Jewish tradition, this translates basically to “watch out for idolatry” –the exact opposite sentiment from the shema Jesus adheres to and wants to see actualized in his vision of God’s kingdom on earth. Anytime one focuses attention on things and means and acquiring them for oneself, one is not focusing on God but self. The things one desires can easily become the things one worships, values, adores, and derives identity and value from. Rather than fulfilling us and giving us security and a sense of ...

595. Professional Angel

1 Peter 2:19-25

Sermon

Ronald Love

... of Israel. Moses, as a shepherd boy, employed the same talents in leading the sheep of his fold through the Exodus journey. This image is duplicated for so many of the great leaders of the Jewish people. The patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob were shepherds. David acquired his skill as a shepherd to defeat Goliath. The task of the shepherd is one of servitude, which is to be embraced as a spiritual leader. Books have been written on all of the tasks and skills of a shepherd and how they parallel the ...

596. The Debt of Love

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... family. But as soon as you move into a stone house, you build a door. On the door you put a lock, and behind your door you begin to accumulate more and more things. Then you have to spend the rest of your life protecting all that you have acquired.” (5) There are lessons about love for one’s neighbor that we can learn from people in so-called undeveloped countries. There are lessons we can learn from those who have the least in our own land. Many years ago, PARADE Magazine carried the story of a nun who ...

597. "I Can't Sit On Its Lap"

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

Howard Maxwell is a man in tune with his times. When his four-year-old daughter, Melinda, acquired a fixation for “The Three Little Pigs” and demanded that he read it to her night after night, he knew he had to do something. So Mr. Maxwell tape-recorded the story. When Melinda next asked for it, he simply switched on the playback. Then he taught Melinda to rewind ...

598. We Have All Become Nicodemus

Romans 16:25-27

Sermon

Ronald Love

... -Jews alike, which would be the Gentiles. The word “Gentile” means all nations except the nation of Israel. In course of time, as the Jews began to more and more to pride themselves on their peculiar privileges as the “chosen ones,” the word Jew acquired unpleasant associations, and was often used as a term of contempt. Paul, disagreeing with this ideology, saw his mission to be one to the Jews and Gentiles, that is, to all the citizens of the world. He understood that Jesus was the Messiah not just ...

599. Can't Afford to Save

Luke 12:16-21

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

... That's a telling commentary on our age. Our priorities can become so confused that we're not sure what is important and what is not. So we waste a lot of time, hurrying big for little reasons. Our consumer society seduces us into such hurrying in order to acquire the latest fashion or the most recent time saving device by telling us that we can’t do without it and further dupes us into believing that spending and possessing are the only ways to meet our deepest needs. It isn't so. Jesus called a man a ...

600. The Dream is Fulfilled

Daniel 4:28-37

Understanding Series

William Nelson

... not to “become proud” and “forget the LORD”; not to take credit for their possessions (Deut. 8:10–18); “but remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth” (Deut. 8:18). Jesus tells of a man who acquires great wealth and boasts that he will now “take life easy; eat, drink and be merry” (Luke 12:19; cf. Dan. 4:4, where Nebuchadnezzar is “contented and prosperous”). But it is not to be; heaven intervenes. “God said to him, ‘You fool! This very ...

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The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Stendhal

By associating with good and evil persons a man acquires the virtues and vices which they possess, even as the wind blowing over different places takes along good and bad odors.

The Panchatantra

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces, and that cure is freedom.

Thomas B. Macaulay

Poetry is emotion put into measure. The emotion must come by nature, but the measure can be acquired by art.

Thomas Hardy

Morality, like physical cleanliness, is not acquired once and for all: it can only be kept and renewed by a habit of constant watchfulness and discipline.

Victoria Ocampo

Most plagiarists, like the drone, have neither taste to select, industry to acquire, nor skill to improve, but impudently pilfer the honey ready prepared, from the hive.

Charles Caleb "Walter" Colton

Nature makes boys and girls lovely to look upon so they can be tolerated until they acquire some sense.

William Lyon Phelps

One can acquire everything in solitude except character.

Stendhal

584. In diem natalem

Titus 2:1-15

Sermon

Ron Love

585. Not Such a Difficult Question

Matthew 22:34-46

Sermon

King Duncan

586. Three Little Pigs

Humor

587. The Jesus Straightway

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Lori Wagner

588. Knowledge

Genesis 3:1-19 · Psalm 90

Sermon

Will Willimon

589. Holy Extravagance

Mark 14:3-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

590. Out of the Saltshaker

Mark 9:38-50

Sermon

King Duncan

591. Metaphors Be with You

John 6:35, 41-51

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

592. The Favorite

Luke 2:41-52

Sermon

Lori Wagner

593. A Day of Passion, Praise and Prophesying

Acts 2:1-21

Sermon

King Duncan

594. Bigger, Better, Basta!

Luke 12:13-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

595. Professional Angel

1 Peter 2:19-25

Sermon

Ronald Love

596. The Debt of Love

Romans 13:8-14

Sermon

King Duncan & Angela Akers

... family. But as soon as you move into a stone house, you build a door. On the door you put a lock, and behind your door you begin to accumulate more and more things. Then you have to spend the rest of your life protecting all that you have acquired.” (5) There are lessons about love for one’s neighbor that we can learn from people in so-called undeveloped countries. There are lessons we can learn from those who have the least in our own land. Many years ago, PARADE Magazine carried the story of a nun who ...

597. "I Can't Sit On Its Lap"

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

598. We Have All Become Nicodemus

Romans 16:25-27

Sermon

Ronald Love

599. Can't Afford to Save

Luke 12:16-21

Illustration

Maxie Dunnam

600. The Dream is Fulfilled

Daniel 4:28-37

Understanding Series

William Nelson

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