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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow man; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.

Sir Walter Scott

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

St. Jerome

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

T. S. Eliot

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo.

Thomas Campbell

That charity which longs to publish itself, ceases to be charity.

Ulrich von Hutton

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

W. Somerset Maugham

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.

William Cowper

If you read history, you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.

C. S. Lewis

Happy is the person who can laugh at himself. He will never cease to be amused.

Habib Bourguiba

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I have done it a thousand times.

Mark Twain

1139. A Personal Question Deserves a Personal Answer

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Roy Howard

... I talk about finding him, as if I were the hero of the story? I told my friend that though the Lord wasn’t lost, I surely was, even though I was the coolest kid on the block. I would rather talk about the goodness of the shepherd who never ceases looking for lost ones, including this one who had drifted away from the church at a tender age because the church seemed more concerned for its own survival than anything else. As best I could tell at that time, the church was either clueless or not interested in ...

1140. "Cathedra"

1 Corinthians 1:1-9

Sermon

Ron Love

... their congregations located within the episcopate to instruct others. The elders in the community churches would accept the responsibility of educating new converts. The sole purpose of this instruction was preparation for baptism. Once baptized the formal education ceased. The method of instruction was dialogue and memorization, as most students were illiterate and written materials were scarce. The participants studied the creeds and liturgies of the church, in addition to the bishop’s approved list of ...

1141. Now is the Day of Salvation

2 Corinthians 5:20b-6:10

Sermon

King Duncan

... to avoid being discovered, the driver drives the bus off the road and hides it behind some bushes. They are still within earshot of the North Koreans, though, and Hawkeye directs a South Korean mother to keep her infant from crying. The crying ceases and the danger passes. Later, when Hawkeye discovers that the mother has actually smothered the child so that the group of refugees will not be betrayed, it has a devastating impact on his mind and emotions. Hawkeye becomes emotionally distraught and needs ...

1142. The Foot-board of the Pulpit and the Floor of the Parlor

Ephesians 3:1-12

Sermon

Ron Love

... the word of God should be directed to individuals in their daily encounter with the adversities of life. Our counsel from the scriptures ought to be simple and practical, yet pertinent enough to offer assurances in the promises of Jesus. In this endeavor, we cannot cease from our labors. The words, “When there is any difference felt between the foot-board of the pulpit and the floor of the parlor, you have not yet said that which you should say,” must be our guide in sharing the gospel message. We share ...

1143. Suffering Leads to Victory

1 Peter 3:18-21

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... most. Yet, as the Acts of the Apostles shows very clearly, Peter is a completely transformed individual in the wake of the resurrection. He boldly proclaims his faith and is completely undeterred by threats from the Jewish religious elite who order him to cease his preaching about Jesus. It is this renewed and transformed Peter about whom we hear in our reading this week. He speaks to the fledgling Christian community by drawing a comparison between its suffering and that of Christ. As Jesus triumphed over ...

1144. Rising to New Life

1 Corinthians 15:1-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... in the present moment to temptation. Thus, we bring a form of death to ourselves by alienating ourselves from Christ. Jesus is ever faithful and, remembering the beautiful metaphor of the British writer, Francis Thompson, in his epic poem “The Hound of Heaven,” never ceases to relentlessly search for our souls. Yet, we are not always as faithful. Writing to his friend Timothy, Paul proclaimed, “If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him; if we deny ...

1145. A Costly Cross

Isaiah 52:13--53:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... ’s love for each of us. That’s what Good Friday is all about. Some of you will remember the story of a certain medieval monk who announced he would be preaching the next Sunday evening on “The Love of God.” As the shadows fell and light ceased to come through the great cathedral windows, the congregation gathered. In the darkness of the altar, the monk lit a candle and carried it to the crucifix. First of all, he illumined the crown of thorns; next, the two wounded hands; then the marks of the spear ...

1146. Love

1 Corinthians 13:1-13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... of one another, spread untruth about one another's work. "You were supposed to speak on global peacemaking, not petty moral issues like gossip!" they told him after his talk. But I don't know.... Love never ends; as for prophecies, they will pass; tongues,...cease;...knowledge,...will pass away. For our knowledge is imperfect and our prophecy is imperfect; but when the perfect comes, the imperfect will pass away. And now what is for me, perhaps the most challenging claim of the text: "When I was a child, I ...

1147. Homecoming

Hosea 14:1-3a

Sermon

Will Willimon

... for me. I have visited once since my mother died and I can tell you, despite my dream, nothing is there. All gone. And yet, home is there. "Home is where the heart is," they say. About six months to the day after my mother died, these dreams of home ceased. What do you make over these dreams of mine? A way of grief's work with me, yes, but more, I think. Perhaps grief was but a catalyst, a door opening into a room deep in the subconscious, a room called "Remember" on the other side of a dream's ...

1148. Imagination

Luke 1:39-45, 46-55

Sermon

Will Willimon

... have a towel to drape as a royal robe over their shoulders. They are Mario Andretti if someone will loan them a cardboard box. Thus they notice possibilities and connections in the world the rest of us miss. At what age does the world cease being thick with potential, become fossilized and reduced to a level of the thin and the prosaic, the expected and the explained? Children have not been informed of official, adult restrictions on reality. Therefore their world still has room for wonder. Everything--a ...

1149. Homecoming

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , this same dream. My mother was never in these dreams. I kept expecting her to be, but she never appeared amid all her cherished belongings. I expected her eventually to appear, just as she was, at home. But she never did. After a few months the dreams ceased. Ever since, I've wondered at their significance. I think I now know. When my mother died, I needed a home. The death of someone you love is a tangible reminder that life is so fragile, that things are so transient, that here, hardly anything lasts. I ...

1150. When Storms Hit Home

Mark 4:35-41

Sermon

King Duncan

... be caught in a storm with Him. (8) And that’s a lesson the disciples needed to learn, and they couldn’t learn it any other way. So the disciples rouse Jesus from his sleep, and he speaks to the wind and the waves, “Peace! be still!” And the wind ceases and there is a great calm. Then he turns to the disciples and asks, “Why are you afraid? Have you no faith?” The central question in life is not how many storms we must pass through. The question is whether we have faith for the storms. All of us ...

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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.

Salman Rushdie

Sir Walter Scott

The friendship that can cease has never been real.

St. Jerome

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

T. S. Eliot

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

T. S. Eliot

Never wedding, ever wooing, Still a lovelorn heart pursuing, Read you not the wrong you're doing In my cheek's pale hue? All my life with sorrow strewing; Wed or cease to woo.

Thomas Campbell

That charity which longs to publish itself, ceases to be charity.

Ulrich von Hutton

Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

W. Somerset Maugham

The greatest tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

W. Somerset Maugham

Restraining prayer, we cease to fight; Prayer keeps the Christian's armor bright; And Satan trembles when he sees The weakest saint upon his knees.

William Cowper

C. S. Lewis

Happy is the person who can laugh at himself. He will never cease to be amused.

Habib Bourguiba

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I have done it a thousand times.

Mark Twain

1139. A Personal Question Deserves a Personal Answer

Matthew 16:13-20

Sermon

Roy Howard

1140. "Cathedra"

1 Corinthians 1:1-9