Contributed by Daniel Austin on Mar 18, 2007
Charles Mayo, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic, made the observation that worry adversely affects the circulatory system, heart, glands, and entire nervous system. In the medical journal "American Mercury" Mayo said he
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Christian/Church Of Christ
Contributed by Jim Kane on May 18, 2009
There were two brothers named John and Charles. They grew up in a religious home. They believed there was a God. They had religious training. One even became a minister.
But it was not until their 30’s or so, did they truly have their hearts, as one of them put it, ‘strangely warmed.’ That heart
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Church Of God
Contributed by Jerry Blaxton on Aug 27, 2009
Some of you watch or listen to Charles Stanley, John Hagee, Chuck Swindoll, James Dobson, Billy Graham, David Jeremiah, or any number of others. I don’t know how many different preachers and teachers come on some of the satellite TV channels, because we don’t have that. Instead, our TV service
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Baptist
Contributed by John Putty on Mar 19, 2011
Charles Finney, Abel Clary. Second Great Awakening.
It had been said about Rev. Charles Finney that his sermons were chain lightning, flashing conviction into the hearts of the stoutest skeptics. Simple as a child in his utterances, he sometimes startled his hearers by his unique prayers." He
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Assembly Of God
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In 1926, a wealthy Toronto lawyer named Charles Vance Millar died, leaving behind him a will that amused and electrified the citizens of his Canadian province. Millar, a bachelor with a wicked sense of humour, stated clearly that he intended his last will and testament to be an “uncommon and
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Episcopal/Anglican
Contributed by Aubrey Vaughan on May 29, 2007
Charles Bridges said, “But what is fear, this fear of the Lord? It is the affectionate reverence, by which the child of God bends
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Baptist
Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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In 1820, Charles Caleb Colton coined the phrase that states: “Imitation is the sincerest form of
flattery.” The phrase is often used, ironically, when someone tries to
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Jun 18, 2007
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Charles Dickens’ novel A Tale of Two Cities tells the story of Charles Darnay, a young Frenchman
condemned to die in the guillotine. But when Sidney Carton, his friend, heard about Darnay’s
sentence, he was determined to find a way to save him.
Carton gained admission to the dungeon the night
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Charles H. Spurgeon: “It is not our littleness that hinders Christ; but our bigness. It is not our weakness that hinders Christ; it is our strength. It is not our darkness that hinders Christ; it is our supposed light that holds back his hand.”
Man has the tendency to think
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Independent/Bible
Contributed by Brian Matherlee on Nov 29, 2007
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Charles Van Gorder was a doctor with the 101st Airborne on June 6, 1944. Captain Gorder and many other doctors were going to do something new on that day. They flew behind enemy lines in gliders made out of tubing, plywood and canvass. Many crashed in the French fields and were severely wounded
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Wesleyan
Contributed by Warner Pidgeon on Jan 5, 2008
In the 19th century the Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon (1834-1892) said this: “Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise… [The greatest fool is] the
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Anglican
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