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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Warren Beatty

Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.

William Arthur Ward

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

William Eardley IV

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.

William P. King

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

William Shakespeare

Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement.

Winfield Scott

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Winston Churchill

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

WW. Ziege

In morality, the equivalency of opposites can only be achieved by revisionist acts.

Brett Blair

Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

If God did not bless, not one hair, not a solitary wisp of straw, would grow; but there would be an end of everything. At the same time God wants me to take this stance: I would have nothing whatever if I did not plow and sow. God does not want to have success come without work, and yet I am not to achieve it by my work. He does not want me to sit at home, to loaf, to commit matters to God, and to wait till a fried chicken flies into my mouth. That would be tempting God.

Martin Luther

2313. OK Boomer

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

... same contrary nature? Former competitive swimmer and nine-time Olympic champion Mark Spitz might have had a touch of that stubbornness. Spitz, you may remember, won seven gold medals at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, all in world record time. This was an achievement that lasted for 36 years until it was surpassed by Michael Phelps, who won eight gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Some of you may also remember that, in an era when other swimmers were shaving their body hair, Spitz swam ...

2314. A Gift from God

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G. W. Knight

... works an eight-hour day and receives a fair day's pay for his time, that is a wage. When a person competes with an opponent and receives a trophy for his performance, that is a prize. When a person receives appropriate recognition for his long service or high achievements, that is an award. But when a person is not capable of earning a wage, can win no prize, and deserves no award yet receives such a gift anyway that is a good picture of God's unmerited favor. This is what we mean when we talk about the ...

2315. Motives of the Heart

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Martin Luther

Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property.

2316. Oh, That You Would Come Down?

Isaiah 63:7--64:12

Sermon

King Duncan

... want hope. He is hope. We want peace. He is peace. We want love. He is love. The problem is we want hope, but we don’t want him. We want peace, but we don’t want him. We want love, but we don’t want him. We want to achieve a world without suffering or sin, but we do not want to open our own lives so that he might begin his healing and reconciling work through us. There is no other way, however. Without him there is no hope, no peace, no love available to this world. Once there ...

2317. Are you a G.O.A.T.?

Matthew 25:31-46

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... of heaven kind of world. We live in a world today in which we often advocate for a philosophy that says, “the ends justify the means.” We believe often today that behavior doesn’t matter, that personality doesn’t matter, as long as the desired end goal is achieved. Scripture disagrees. Jesus is clear. It matters why we do things. It matters how we do them. And it matters that we do them. A flock full of sheep and goats may look the same and even behave in some similar ways some of the time. But it ...

2318. Driven to Their Knees

Mark 9:2-13

Sermon

King Duncan

... in his book, Made to be Mastered, tells about the impact that walking on the moon had on two of America’s astronauts. For one of them he says, “Moon walking had been his greatest goal in life, and he labored tirelessly toward achieving that goal. But once it was attained, he explained, there was no higher goal and he became disillusioned. He lost his ambition and his drive. Finally, he suffered an emotional breakdown.” For another astronaut, however, the moon visit meant something totally different ...

2319. The Cost of Discipleship

Philippians 2:5-11

Sermon

Richard Gribble

... difficulties, obstacles, and hurdles in life. There is, as Jesus says himself, much suffering on the way to the Father. Yet, we know in faith that if we are willing to walk the road with Jesus, to carry the crosses of our life, in the end we will achieve the goal for which we were actually sent into the world, namely to return to God in eternal life. Saint Paul, writing to his friend Timothy reminded us, “If we have died with him, we will also live with him; if we endure, we will also reign with him ...

2320. Sin

Romans 7:15--8:13

Sermon

Will Willimon

... ourselves." Insights from psychology and scripture agree: We are needy, poor, driven creatures. The key to our salvation is not positive thinking or self-induced self-esteem, but God's grace which frees us from having to define ourselves solely on terms of our good achievements. The Christian faith says that you get self-esteem as a gift from a God who, even in our selfishness and sin, loves us. "Wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this death?" asks Paul. Paul knew: We can't deliver ourselves ...

2321. Patience

Matthew 11:2-11 · James 5:7-10

Sermon

Will Willimon

... not Christmas. You have to wait for real Christmas. We are so impatient, I think, because patience is a virtue which goes against the grain of modern mentality. The main project of the modern age is to take control of our lives, to shape and build, to solve and achieve. We don't know much about patience because patience is a virtue that we learn by waiting on someone else, whereas the modem ideal is to fashion life in such a way that we are freed from the necessity to wait on anyone. One of the main charms ...

2322. Unsanctified

Mark 1:21-28

Sermon

Lori Wagner

... but practically. Only after you had studied extensively and reached the age of 30 were you qualified to make your own interpretations of scripture and to call your own set of disciples. Being a master rabbi in Jesus’ day was akin to achieving your doctorate or a post-doctoral, professorial status. You now could teach with “authority.” Jesus authority however was not mere book learning, but Jesus also taught with a kind of authority that revealed his identity as the Son of God, Messiah, spokesperson ...

2323. Joy

Luke 2:1-11 · Isaiah 9:2-6

Sermon

Will Willimon

... minutes? You'd have to feel sorry for the person who claimed to feel real, deep, abiding joy after receiving a "Salad Shooter" this morning. Joy, real joy, is always reflexive, a spontaneous, yet deep human outburst because something has happened. Joy isn't a goal, an achievement. Joy is a byproduct, a gracious spinoff. "Let's all get together and do a little joy." No. It's a gift, a response to something that happens to you. You felt it when the doctor called to say that the shadow on the Xray was just ...

2324. Heaven

Revelation 7:9-17

Sermon

Will Willimon

... our hearts here, when we are given there, what here, we knew not how to desire. We, who have spent our whole lives so restlessly trying to make it with God are at last received by God, given God's self as free gift rather than our heroic achievement. There, at the end, God takes us, welcomes us home. The death we had spent our whole lives dreading, fearing, fighting, is in the light of heaven, seen as a final purging, final opening up of ourselves fully to God, a last relinquishment of our miserly selves so ...

2325. Overwhelmed

Revelation 1:4b-8

Sermon

Will Willimon

... 't it?" I asked him what he meant. He continued, "Back in the Sixties, when it came to racism, we knew exactly what we needed to do. We had a clear goal--the passage of new legislation. We could organize accordingly, and move toward our goal. When we achieved our goal, we could celebrate and feel good. But today, the problems are more subtle. The conflict is deeper. There is no clear picture of what we need to do, no consensus on what comes next. We just feel overwhelmed." A student group had invited me to ...

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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Warren Beatty

Four steps to achievement: plan purposefully, prepare prayerfully, proceed positively, pursue persistently.

William Arthur Ward

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

William Eardley IV

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.

William Jennings Bryan

Great men have not been concerned with fame. The joy of achievement that comes from finding something new in the universe is by far their greatest joy.

William P. King

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

William Shakespeare

Peace won by compromise is usually a short-lived achievement.

Winfield Scott

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

Winston Churchill

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

WW. Ziege

In morality, the equivalency of opposites can only be achieved by revisionist acts.

Brett Blair

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Martin Luther

2313. OK Boomer

Matthew 21:28-32

Sermon

King Duncan

2314. A Gift from God

Illustration

G. W. Knight