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The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Bertrand Russell

Psychiatrists today . . . see the irrational hostility that people everywhere vent upon one another as chiefly projected self-hate.

Bonaro Overstreet

Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would never discourage me. He would always point me to himself to trust him. Therefore, my discouragement is from Satan. As you go through the emotions that we have, hostility is not from God, bitterness, unforgiveness, all of these are attacks from Satan.

Charles Stanley

Moreover, behind this vague tendency to treat religion as a side issue in modern life, there exists a strong body of opinion that is actively hostile to Christianity and that regards the destruction of positive religion as absolutely necessary to the advance of modern culture.

Christopher Dawson

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Elizabeth Bowen

The splendor of life forever lies in wait about each one of us in all its fullness, but veiled from view, deep down, invisible, far off. It is there, though; not hostile, not reluctant, not deaf. If you summon it by the right word, by its right name, it will come.

Franz Kafka

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

George Washington

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.

John Hughes Holmes

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

Liam Neeson

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Honesty without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility.

Rose N. Franzblau

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.

Sigmund Freud

I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.

Thomas Jefferson

To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?

William Makepeace Thackeray

... about as heavy as cannonballs. But it makes little sense to carry them. Most likely, the "enemy" is unaware of your enmity, and surely would be surprised to learn that you've been stalking him with a cannonball in your pocket. So examine your grudges. Do what armies do when hostilities are over: unload the cannonballs and stack them on the courthouse lawn. Then marvel at how much easier it is to get around.

James Alexander Thom

1243. A Ship A Day

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Staff

During World War II, American industrialist Henry J. Kaiser was brought to Washington, D.C., to testify concerning his ship building activities. He had claimed to be able to build a ship a day. He was being cross-examined by a somewhat hostile young lawyer who said, "So you think you can build a ship a day. You know, Rome wasn't built in a day." Henry J. Kaiser looked the young lawyer squarely in the eye and answered, "I wasn't there." Note: In November 1942, one of Kaiser's Richmond yards ...

1244. How to Beat a Stress Test

Ephesians 6:10-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... to envision a new way of relating to one another. Paul challenges Jesus-followers to treat others the way Jesus would—with compassion, kindness, respect, humility. And if this new way of life isn’t challenging enough, remember that followers of Jesus endured hostility from fellow citizens and persecution by the Roman government. How would they respond? Would the pressures to fit in, to conform to their culture, cause them to lose their cool, as well as lose their faith? Paul knew the struggles they were ...

1245. Religious Rage

Psalm 137:1-9

Sermon

Will Willimon

... people I had ever met. Frankly, I hoped that she would trust her instincts and drop the course. But she didn't. She stayed for the whole course, arguing, fighting, raging every step of the way. On the last day she gave me one of the most hostile, uncomplimentary evaluations I have ever received from a student. Well, she had been abused in her earlier marriage, you say. Yes. She was having a rough time balancing school, child care, and all the rest, you say. Yes. But people like her are not pleasant to be ...

1246. Ordinary People

Ruth 1:1-16

Sermon

Will Willimon

... is ugly whether it occurs at seventeen or seventy. Marriage becomes a contract between two friendly strangers who band together only to satisfy individual needs. So the story of Ruth and Naomi, two women, strangers bound together in the face of a hostile world, strikes us as strange. The story says that family, parents, children are an invitation to expose ourselves to strangers, to become vulnerable to another, to link our future to some project greater than ourselves. To be in any family, any marriage ...

1247. Winner And Still Champion

Mark 9:30-37

Sermon

Frank Ramirez

... know we’re talking about a text from the gospel of Mark, but forgive me if I begin by quoting from the Acts of the Apostles because it makes a point about childhood in that era. In Acts 22:3, the apostle Paul begins to make his defense before a hostile crowd of his countrymen. He had been falsely accused of bringing a Gentile into the inner court of the temple in Jerusalem, and it was his intention to show that he had been diligent in his practice of the faith his whole life. So he began: “I am a Jew ...

1248. Show Us the Father

John 14:8-17, 25-27

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... . They were mere men. How could they remember everything, let alone grasp it all? The task was beyond their abilities — particularly at a bewildering time such as this. Jesus tried to reassure them by telling them he would not leave them as orphans — parentless in a hostile world. He told them he would come to them, and though the world would no longer see him, they would see him. These words made him more of an enigma than ever. His final thoughts in this dialog provide us with his plan. His strategy ...

1249. Recruiting Volunteers

Luke 10:1-11, 16-20

Sermon

King Duncan

... the authority and anointing of the spirit of Jesus Christ. That’s when you need the power to see and to love others with the same passionate, sacrificial love God has for them. That’s when you need the power to announce the kingdom of God to a disbelieving or hostile culture. That’s when you need the power to heal the sick and cast out demons. That’s when you need the power to stand up for truth and light in a world that embraces darkness and lies. If you sit in church each week and doubt the power ...

1250. The Steady March Forward

Luke 9:51-62

Sermon

Dave Zuchelli

... of action proved him to be far less than they had imagined him to be (at least in their eyes). He wasn’t pushing back on the Romans, and his words and actions gave no indication of a coming kingdom. Worse than simply moving on, many of them grew hostile. To them, Jesus had not simply become passé, he was a threat to the peaceful order the day. The Jewish leaders were not excited by the Palm Sunday parade, and they did their best to rile up the masses against him. No, the city was definitely not the place ...

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Showing 1226 to 1250 of 1270 results

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

Bertrand Russell

Psychiatrists today . . . see the irrational hostility that people everywhere vent upon one another as chiefly projected self-hate.

Bonaro Overstreet

Charles Stanley

Christopher Dawson

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Elizabeth Bowen

Franz Kafka

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

George Washington

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The universe is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.

John Hughes Holmes

For all of nature's wonder and beauty, it is also hostile and unpredictable.

Liam Neeson

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

Napoleon Bonaparte

I have no hostility to nature, but a child's love to it. I expand and live in the warm day like corn and melons.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Honesty without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility.