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Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!"

Phoebe Cary

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Pindar

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate the subject matters.

Pope Paul VI

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Quintilian

The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah yields.

Robert Hall

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

Sir Francis Drake

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Sophocles

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Stendhal

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thomas Paine

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Walter Lippmann

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

Walter Savage Landor

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

Adrian Rogers

God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.

Andrew Murray

941. Legend In Your Own Mind

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Dag Hammarskjold

Around a man who has been pushed into the limelight a legend begins to grow as it does around a dead man. But a dead man is in no danger of yielding to the temptation to nourish his legend, or accept its picture as reality. I pity the man who falls in love with his image as it is drawn by public opinion during the honeymoon of publicity.

942. Well of Wisdom, Water of Life

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... had God “dwelling” with him. Therefore, he would always know how and where to access water. Just as Abraham had dug a well (also serving as an altar) consecrated to the Lord, so too would Ishmael no doubt dig wells in the desert that would yield enough water to nourish himself, his family, and his caravans, as he praised God for saving his life and giving him a future, a family, and hope. For hope in biblical times lay in seeding families, communities, peoples, and nations. In fact, much of the Hebrew ...

943. About Face!

Matthew 25:14-30

Sermon

King Duncan

... terrified . . .” Fear not only makes us miserable, but it robs us in so many ways including, possibly, the ability for healing to take place in our bodies. Remember the example of the three servants. Two of the servants invested their master’s property which yielded a tidy profit. The other man lost out because of his fear. This story from Matthew’s Gospel tells us that Christ is looking for people with holy boldness. What is holy boldness? The boldness to let God direct your talents and energy toward ...

944. Measure for Measure

Matthew 18:21-35

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... Red Sea. Haman constructs a gallows to kill the Jew Mordechai. In the end he is hanged on his own gallows due to Queen Esther’s ingenuity in revealing his plot.[1] However, here’s the catch. Often, we take the idea of “measure for measure,” which yields the natural consequences of our deeds, which often reflect back upon us, or are reflected back upon us by God, for another idea: revenge. But midah k'negged midah is not revenge. Think of it this way. When a child reaches into the cookie jar too many ...

945. Jesus' Temptation

Luke 4:1-13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... as proof that God is our kind of God, i.e., a God who responds to our hungry need. What good is religion or praying, or your getting out of bed and being here in Chapel on a cold February Sunday, if it's not effective, if it doesn't yield results in your life? "We have forsaken everything and followed you," the disciples said to Jesus. Now, what's in it for us? When Satan enters the story and has an opportunity to tell his side, this seems to be his main theme. If you are really God, says Satan ...

946. Faith Power

Mark 5:21-43

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... she even just touches Jesus’ clothing, she will be made well. The juxtaposition of these stories tells us something about faith that we sometimes don’t want to acknowledge: it may come from unexpected people in unexpected circumstances in unexpected places and yield unexpected outcomes. And, sadly, the church may sometimes be the last place we find it. The most powerful faith comes most often from those in the direst of circumstances, people who are willing to take great risks in order to find healing ...

947. A Fruitful Life

Luke 13:1-9

Sermon

King Duncan

... who said, “I have a rock garden. Last week three of them died.” (1) But I admire the gardeners’ skill. More than that, I admire their passion and their patience because it takes both those qualities to plant and tend a garden, never knowing if it will yield a harvest or not. There is a man in India who is a good example of the passion and patience of a master gardener. His name is Kalimullah Khan, and he is a professional horticulturist. Khan is 80 years old, and his family owns a mango orchard. When ...

948. A New Beginning

2 Corinthians 5:16-21

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... point in this connection. He once wrote: It is wretched sophistry to infer from this, that the grace of God is not exhibited to sinners until they anticipate it by their repentance... it is wrong to infer from this, that repentance, which is the gift of God is yielded by men from their own movement of their hearts.[4] We can only have a new beginning, repentance only really happens, if God gives it to us. He did that on the first Easter! In our lesson (v.17) Paul made this point about the new beginning we ...

949. Christianity: A Worldly Religion That Makes Sure That Even Animals Matter

Revelation 5:11-14

Sermon

Mark Ellingsen

... of the earth entails that we can get to know our Lord a little better through them. Hear the song of the great twentieth-century Catholic theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin: Blessed be you, harsh matter, barren soil, stubborn rock: you who yield only to violence, you who force us to work if we would eat... Blessed be you, universal matter, immeasurable time, boundless ether, triple abyss of stars and atoms and generations: you who by overflowing and dissolving our narrow standards or measurement reveal ...

950. Finding Your Place

Romans 12:1-12

Sermon

Will Willimon

... but we also want to be protected by everybody. We want to stand out but not to be isolated. Therein is our dilemma. Time and again, research has shown that you and I will surrender much to institutions or personalities that give us security. We yield to authority if we believe that by doing so, we will be protected and accepted. In a classic experiment, Stanley Milgram brought people off the street into his Yale laboratory. There they were told that they were participating in research on human behavior. He ...

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Only yield when you must, never "give up the ship," but fight on to the last "with a stiff upper lip!"

Phoebe Cary

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Pindar

Many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little.

Plutarch

Pope Paul VI

When we cannot hope to win, it is an advantage to yield.

Quintilian

The prayer of faith is the only power in the universe to which the great Jehovah yields.

Robert Hall

There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

Sir Francis Drake

You win the victory when you yield to friends.

Sophocles

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Stendhal

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Thomas Jefferson

When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.

Thomas Paine

There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.

Walter Lippmann

We cannot conquer fate and necessity, yet we can yield to them in such a manner as to be greater than if we could.

Walter Savage Landor

You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

Adrian Rogers

God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.

Andrew Murray

941. Legend In Your Own Mind

Illustration

Dag Hammarskjold

942. Well of Wisdom, Water of Life

Genesis 21:8-21

Sermon

Lori Wagner

943. About Face!

Matthew 25:14-30