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You Can Have Anything You Want If You Want It ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

A Person Who Doubts Himself Is Like A Man Who ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself. He makes his failure certain by ...read more

Tags: Doubt

No Man, Who Knows Aught, Can Be So Stupid To ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"No man, who knows aught, can be so stupid to deny that all men were born free, being the image and resemblance of God himself, and were, by privilege ...read more

Tags: Political Freedom

You Cannot Choose Your Calling. Your Calling ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"You cannot choose your calling. Your calling chooses you. You have been blessed with special skills that are yours alone. Use them, whatever ...read more

Tags: Disciplines General

Life Without Confrontation Is Directionless, ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Life without confrontation is directionless, aimless, passive. When unchallenged, human beings tend to drift, wander and stagnate. Confrontation is a gift, a necessary stimulation ...read more

Tags: Truth

There Are Certain Things In Which Mediocrity Is ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously ...read more

Tags: Workplace Balance

No Man Who Continues To Add Something To The ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper reward. This is ...read more

Tags: Miscellaneous

C.h.spurgeon Once Said Of Faith "Faith Sees The ...

Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on Jun 23, 2007

C.H.Spurgeon once said of faith “Faith sees the invisible, hears the inaudible, touches the intangible and does the impossible.” This is when the Soul of a human being comes into ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

And This Helps Explain, Perhaps, My Relationship ...

Contributed by Charles Wallis on Apr 3, 2008

"And this helps explain, perhaps, my relationship with Reverend Wright. As imperfect as he may be, he has been like family to me." Barak Obama ...read more

Denomination: Pentecostal

The Whole Conviction Of My Life Now Rests Upon ...  PRO

Contributed by Sermon Central on Dec 16, 2001

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and a few other solitary men, is the ...read more

Tags: Holy Spirit Attributes, Evangelism The Lost, Disappointment

Let Me Remind You That God Does Not Send Anyone ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

Let me remind you that God does not send anyone to Hell. He permits the soul a choiceand if a human being has chosen to gratify the lusts of the flesh rather than the ...read more

Tags: Hell

Give Me A Gentle Heart, That I May Do Naught ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"Give me a gentle heart, that I may do Naught but the gentle thing my whole life through. Give me a heart as kind as heart can ...read more

Tags: Christian Love

Of All The Lessons History Teaches This One Is ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

Of all the lessons history teaches this one is plainest: the person who tries to achieve ends through force is always unscrupulous and is always cruel. We should remember this in an age where ...read more

Tags: Christian Values

To Enter The Country Of Old Age Is A New ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"To enter the country of old age is a new experience, different from what you supposed it to be. Nobody, man or woman, knows the country until he has ...read more

Tags: Hardship Of Life

Sad Memories Gather, Like Evening Mists, Round ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007

"Sad memories gather, like evening mists, round aged lives, and the temptation of the old is unduly to exalt the past, and unduly to depreciate the present. Young lips shout ...read more

Tags: Hardship Of Life

The Root Of Sin Is Selfishness—‘i Will' And Not ...

Contributed by Donnie Martin on Feb 19, 2009

“The root of sin is selfishness—‘I will’ and not ‘Thy will’” (Warren W. Wiersbe, Warren Wiersbe’s “Be” Series: Old & New Testaments, as found in ...read more

Denomination: Baptist

At A Meeting Of The Fellowship Of Christian ...  PRO

Contributed by Pat Cook on Jun 21, 2003

At a meeting of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Bobby Richardson, former New York Yankee second baseman, offered a prayer that is a classic in being brief and to the point: “Dear ...read more

Tags: Knowing God's Will, God The Father

Denomination: Baptist

Albert Schweitzer Wisely Said, " I Don't Know ...  PRO

Contributed by Kent Lenard on Sep 8, 2003

Albert Schweitzer wisely said, " I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: The ones among you who will be really happy ...read more

Tags: Christian Disciplines

Denomination: Baptist

Todd Peterson: 12-Year Nfl Kicker Now Playing For ...  PRO

Contributed by Mickey Bell on Dec 28, 2005

Todd Peterson: 12-year NFL kicker now playing for the Atlanta Falcons said this about why he shares his faith. ”It just comes down to ...read more

Tags: Grace

Denomination: Baptist

I Am Convinced That All Writers Are Optimists ...

Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007

"I am convinced that all writers are optimists whether they concede the point or not . . . How otherwise could any human being sit down to a pile of blank sheets and decide ...read more

Tags: Books And Literature