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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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576. Be Like Dad

John 17:1-5

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

... the disciples nor Jesus had an idea that this would be the way the story would end. That isn’t to say there wasn’t complete trust that the story and its outcome, whatever it might be, would be in God’s hands. It is to say that my theological bent is to give the free will of our existence a shout out, even to Jesus. The scripture says it ended with Jesus honoring God... it’s for you Dad, Father. His hope was that what he, Jesus, had done, how he had lived, prayed, healed, and cajoled his people would ...

Education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Alice Walker

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

Ambrose Bierce

When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.

Anonymous

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Edgar Allan Poe

The bow is bent, the arrow flies, The winged shaft of fate.

Ira Aldridge

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

Jerry Reed

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Khalil Gibran

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

Louis L'Amour

Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.

Philemon

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.

Robert Brault

A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

Seneca

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Thomas Edward Brown

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Thornton Wilder

None of us got where we are solely by pulling ourselves up by our bootstraps. We got here because somebody - a parent, a teacher, an Ivy League crony or a few nuns - bent down and helped us pick up our boots.

Thurgood Marshall

593. Lincoln's Legal Fee

Illustration

When he was an attorney, Abraham Lincoln was once approached by a man who passionately insisted on bringing a suit for $2.50 against an impoverished debtor. Lincoln tried to discourage him, but the man was bent on revenge. When he saw that the man would not be put off, Lincoln agreed to take the case and asked for a legal fee of $10, which the plaintiff paid. Lincoln then gave half the money to the defendant, who willingly confessed to the debt and paid the $2. ...

594. Hearing Aid

Humor

A near-deaf old man determined that a hearing aid was just too expensive for him to purchase. So, he took a small wire and bent it around his ear. "How is that wire improving your hearing?" asked a friend. "Well, it's not," said the old man, "but it seems to make everyone talk louder."

595. Mutual Submission

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

Will Willimon

... be offended. But is there not an even greater offense behind Ephesians 5? Remember, our word is "liberation" -- freedom, autonomy, independence not service, interdependence, submission (mutual or otherwise). Our world was built by cowboys, explorers, entrepreneurs; a nation of individuals bent on making a difference, Lone Rangers and Annie Oakleys standing on their own two feet. Why you are here at Duke? When I was in highschool, I had second thoughts about whether or not I really wanted to go to college ...

596. All Wrapped Up

John 20:1-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Jesus. But this also doesn’t make sense –because of what’s left behind. What is left behind? Clothes. Burial cloths. Listen again to why John suddenly believed. “The two were running together, but the other disciple [John] outran Peter and reached the tomb first. He bent down to look in and saw the linen wrappings lying there, but he did not go in. Then Simon Peter came, following him, and went into the tomb. He saw the linen wrappings lying there, and the cloth that had been on Jesus’ head, not ...

597. Jesus' Temptation

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... behind me, Satan! Can you see? We have been asking, have we not, who is this God, and who is his only Son, whom we are to love with heart, soul, and mind? And Jesus turns our question back upon us! "Who is this Satan, this demonic tempter who is bent on tripping me up, tempting me to walk a path other than the one God has commanded? Don't you see? The Satan, the tempter, is one of his own disciples! The ones who offer him the greatest temptation, who are desperate to transform him, are his own people -- us ...

598. Desperation to Hope

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Dean Feldmeyer

... had been dismissed or divorced by her husband. She must have been, at one time, a woman of substance, of influence, of stature and position in the community, and now she is not. She was, instead, a pariah. Her medical problems had rendered her broke, bent, humbled, alone, and unclean. And that, too, would make her an untouchable to first-century Jews who believed that bad luck and bad circumstances were the direct result of sin. She must have, they would reason, brought this all on herself. Not unlike Job ...

599. The Invitation

Matthew 20:1-15

Sermon

Will Willimon

... out in the early morning and hires workers for the day and that ought to be it. But to our surprise, barely three hours later, he's back again. And then again at noon. And then again and again. We wonder why that owner of the vineyard was so bound, bent, and determined to hire everybody off the streets whom he could lay his hands on. Were his grapes already overripe? Did he know it was going to rain and the harvest might be ruined? Did he have a soft spot in his heart for the unemployed? We don't know ...

600. Why Did Jesus Come?

Luke 2:21-52

Sermon

Derl G. Keefer

... a devout Brahman came along who believed in the Hindu idea of respect for all life. He bought all of them. Then to the surprise of the farmer the Brahman said, “Let them go…set them free.” With the shrug of the shoulder the farmer bent down and snipped the strings off the quail. They were free! What happened next was interesting. Instead of flying off into the sunset those birds simply continued marching around and around in a circle. Finally, the Brahman and the farmer chased them off into the air ...

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576. Be Like Dad

John 17:1-5

Sermon

David & Marian Plant

Education forms the common mind; Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

In nature, nothing is perfect and everything is perfect. Trees can be contorted, bent in weird ways, and they're still beautiful.

Alice Walker

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.

Ambrose Bierce

When the knees are not often bent, the feet soon slide.

Anonymous

The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.

Edgar Allan Poe

The bow is bent, the arrow flies, The winged shaft of fate.

Ira Aldridge

I have spent over 60 years bent over a guitar and to know that I wrote 70 compositions that masters have recorded, that makes me feel so good and full, and proud and thankful to the good Lord.

Jerry Reed

Yesterday we obeyed kings and bent our necks before emperors. But today we kneel only to truth, follow only beauty, and obey only love.

Khalil Gibran

A man can lose sight of everything else when he's bent on revenge, and it ain't worth it.

Louis L'Amour

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Does man differ from the other animals? Only in posture. The rest are bent, but he is a wild beast who walks upright.

Philemon

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.

Robert Brault

A hungry people listens not to reason, nor cares for justice, nor is bent by any prayers.

Seneca

Every man should follow the bent of his nature in art and letters, always provided that he does not offend against the rules of morality and good taste.

Thomas Edward Brown

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

Thornton Wilder

Thurgood Marshall

593. Lincoln's Legal Fee

Illustration

594. Hearing Aid

Humor

595. Mutual Submission

Ephesians 5:22-33

Sermon

Will Willimon