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Today changes must come fast; and we must adjust our mental habits, so that we can accept comfortably the idea of stopping one thing and beginning another overnight.... We must assume that there is probably a better way to do almost everything. We must stop assuming that a thing which has never been done before probably cannot be done at all.

Donald M. Nelson

Because I could not stop for Death He kindly stopped for me - The carriage held but just ourselves And Immortality.

Emily Dickinson

I foresee the Chinese ruling the world. What are you going to do to stop it? No president of the United States will ever have enough power to stop the Chinese when they want to take over the world.

Evel Knievel

Stop living a day at a time and stop worrying about age.

Helen Reddy

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Jack Lemmon

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

Martin Luther King, Jr.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Michael Pritchard

Never stop. One always stops as soon as something is about to happen.

Peter Brook

G.K. Chesterton once said that it is often supposed that when people stop believing in God, they believe in nothing. Alas, it is worse than that. When they stop believing in God, they believe in anything.

Malcolm Muggeridge

2060. All You Can Do is Laugh

Genesis 18:1-15, Genesis 21:1-7

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... to call this act of God, “divine absurdity.” This is the kind of laughter we see today in Genesis 18 in the story of Abraham and Sarah. Abraham and Sarah had longed for a child, but Sarah was barren. In her old age, long after she had stopped menstruating (18:11), the Lord appeared to Abraham in the form of “three men” and told Abraham that Sarah would become pregnant and bear a son. At hearing this, Sarah burst out laughing! At first Sarah is frightened that God heard her laugh. She didn’t want ...

2061. Don't Get Stuck!

Mark 1:1-8

Sermon

Michael L. Sherer

... Immediately it struck him as absurd. His GPS had never been known to provide a rationale for anything, much less apologize for a mistake. Suddenly he saw, up ahead, a barbed wire fence blocking the two-tracks on which he was driving. He coasted up to it and stopped. Through the windshield he found himself staring at a cow, studying him with interest. He climbed out, looked at his tires, and realized he was mired in, up to the hubcaps. He was going to need a tow truck. Angry, he pulled out his cell phone and ...

2062. Follow Those Tail Lights

Humor

... a very dense fog. The only object that he could see clearly was the tail lights of the car ahead, so he decided for safety sake he would follow those lights to be certain that he stayed on the road. Suddenly, without warning, the taillights ahead came to a complete stop and he ran into the driver he had been following. "Why didn't you give some kind of signal that you were going to stop?" he shouted angrily at the other driver. "Why should I?" came the reply, "I was in my own garage."

2063. What's A Workstation?

Humor

If a train station is where the train stops and a bus station is where the bus stops, what is a workstation?

2064. About That Anger

John 2:12-25

Sermon

King Duncan

... , on TV. It disturbed Bud to see pain in Bill McVeigh’s eyes. Bud recognized that pain. Ever since the day of the bombing, Bud Welch had been an outspoken proponent for executing Timothy McVeigh. But after seeing McVeigh's father on TV, Bud stopped campaigning for the death penalty. In 1998, Bud was invited to speak to a religious organization about his change of heart and his faith journey since his daughter’s death. The speaking engagement happened to be in Buffalo, New York, the hometown of Timothy ...

2065. No Promotion Required

Mark 11:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... Moments with God at the Beach, tells of flipping through the channels of his TV one morning when he stopped to watch a painter skillfully painting a desert landscape. As the man proceeded to color the canvas in deep browns, reds, and yellows, the picture ... really started to look good. He felt that the painter ought to stop. The picture looked complete. Then, as he was thinking those very words, he cringed to see the artist add a dark blackish color ...

2066. Imagine

Revelation 21:10, 22-26

Sermon

Will Willimon

... my preacherly exhortation to duty, to reform, to liberate, to crusade and to do, crumbles in my hands, to dust. Any preaching which is worthy, which is honest, has got somehow to get beyond what is and move on to what is not yet. Could I be bold enough to stop helping you to adjust things as they are to get you to stand OD: tiptoes, quivering with anticipation over what is to come? Either God is busy creating a new heaven and a new earth or God is not love, justice, and mercy. Either God will give us a new ...

2067. Fever Pitch

Mark 1:29-39

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... masks and to socially distance, but we are growing weary. We are in urgent need of reprieve, and so our scientists and manufacturers continue to work feverishly in order to deliver the maximum amount of vaccines in record time, hoping to slow the spread and put a stop to the pandemic. One of the hallmarks of the virus is a fever that persists, spiking off and on sometimes a month or more after the primary illness has passed. Like a ghost, it continues to haunt us, threatening to derail our lives. We are as ...

2068. Homecoming

Exodus 17:1-7

Sermon

Will Willimon

... Jesus, always on a journey, never at home, nowhere to lay his head. With a terse, "follow me," urging these tax collectors and fisherfolk to leave home and wander with him on a journey that seems to have no end. The couple of times Jesus manages to stop by home and visit his family seem to go badly. Which makes all the more strange, at least from a biblical perspective, that we call this weekend, "Homecoming." Note that we don't name it, "Duke Development Office Feeding Frenzy," or "Old People Back for One ...

2069. The Main Business of the Church

Acts 1:1-11

Sermon

King Duncan

... that it is the task of the church to reach out to the world. So often what we really mean is that that is the minister’s job. I heard a humorous story recently about an Episcopal priest whose wife was in the hospital for minor surgery. He decided to stop to see her as one of his regular hospital visits. There he stood chatting with her in his clerical collar. Then, he gave her a long passionate kiss and left the room. The lady in the next bed stared in disbelief, then said to the wife, “You know I’ve ...

2070. We Wobble, but We Don't Fall Down

2 Corinthians 4:13-5:1

Sermon

King Duncan

... . He grew up in Oklahoma but fought out of Chicago in the early 1980s. He says he still remembers his first day in the Windy City after his arrival from Tulsa. He says, “I got off the bus with two cardboard suitcases under my arms in downtown Chicago and stopped in front of the Sears Tower. I put my suitcases down, and I looked up at the Tower and I said to myself, ‘I’m going to conquer Chicago.’” Then he adds, “When I looked down, the suitcases were gone.” (3) We all have days like that. Life ...

2071. Don't Fall

Luke 22:39-46

Sermon

Timothy W. Ayers

... about her one guilty pleasure. It was a cream filled donut from a certain bakery she passed on the way to work. For years she had stopped there regularly to get coffee and a cream filled donut. Not every day but a few times a week. On this one particular morning as she ... exhilaration?’ “Here I was, after years of victory over my anger, the opportunity to explode was right there before me. I stopped. Set everything down and walked to my office where I started back to work on a sermon about, of all things ...

2072. Tales from the Field

John 10:11-18

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... confines of our walls and borders and into the vast expanse of the world to sow the seeds of the gospel among all people, people like we are, who too need to hear Jesus voice. We as people of God are called still today to stop building walls. Whether city walls, sheepfold walls, or walls of our churches, the moment those walls confine and separate rather than provide sanctuary, homogenize rather than diversify, keep us in rather than sending us out, they have become our idol instead of our home. The home ...

2073. Walking with God

Acts 2:1-21 · John 15:26-27; 16:4b-15

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... places and experiencing events and people, but having the dog has also increased his relationships with others, because people will stop and talk to him, socialize, and get to know him. They are drawn to his dog. The relationship has ... and people that include you and I and everyone you come in contact with, and even those you don’t. The world and people God will never stop trying to save, no matter who they are or what they’ve done, even to the moment of truth. God never gives up on God’s people ...

2074. When We Are Weak

2 Corinthians 12:7-10

Sermon

King Duncan

... , bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way . . . if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it!” If you keep bumping your head coming down the stairs, maybe it is time you stop for a moment and think if there is another way it might be done. Sometimes our so-called weaknesses are simply warning signs to us that we are on the wrong road. Since this is the day we ...

2075. Good-Bye

John 17:20-26

Sermon

Will Willimon

... , a pitiful, inadequate comfort once presence has turned to absence. And it makes us wonder if we made progress when we learned to stop wailing for Mama in the first grade? It's painful, frightening, to be left alone in the void, the great gap called absence ... human hurt because he came and stood next to us. And when he goes, he doesn't say farewell and forget about us. He prays for us, never stops talking to God about us. He's gone away so he can be so close to God that he's always able to get God's ear when ...

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