Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Aug 28, 2022
A middle-aged, wealthy woman has a heart attack. While on the operating table she has a near death experience. She sees the angel at the gates and asks if this is it.
The angel says no, she has another 30-40 years to live. She recovers, and decides to stay in the hospital and have a face lift,
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it.
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it makes us
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Human vanity can best be served by a reminder that, whatever his accomplishments, his sophistication, his artistic pretension, man owes his very existence to a
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Do not let your vanity and self-love make you suppose that people become your friends at first sight, or even upon a short acquaintance. Real friendship is a slow grower, and never
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 17, 2007
Ernest Hemingway, said this about his life: “I live in a vacuum that is as lonely as a radio tube when the batteries are dead, and there is no current to plug into.” Hemingway lived his life in a way that would be the envy of any person who has bought in to the values of this world. But on a Sunday
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"All men dream but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men,
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"People want to be appreciated, not impressed. They want to be regarded as human beings, not as mere sounding boards for other peoples egos. They want to be treated as an end in
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jan 20, 2011
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CHRYSOSTOM ON ECCLESIASTES
Eutropius had fallen into disgrace. As the highest-ranking official in the Byzantine Empire (late fourth century), he served as the closest adviser to the emperor Arcadius, then ruling in Constantinople. But Eutropius abused his imperial power and aroused the anger of
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Feb 25, 2007
In 1842 the first bathtub was denounced as a "luxurious and democratic vanity". Boston made it unlawful to bathe, except on doctor’s prescription.
In 1843 Philadelphia made bathing illegal between November 1 and March
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on peoples vanity, ignorance,
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Contributed by Brian Eatock on Jan 22, 2006
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A girl knelt in the confessional and said, "Forgive me, Father, for I have sinned."
"What is it, child?"
"Father, I have committed the sin of vanity. Twice a day I gaze at myself in the mirror and tell myself how beautiful I am."
The priest turned, took a good look
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Holiness
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"The intensive care waiting room is a different world. No one is a stranger. They help one another. They grieve with one another and shed tears of joy together. There is no distinction of race or class. Vanity and pretense vanish. Everything focuses on the next doctor’s report or the
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United Methodist