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                    "I think the world of today would go mad, just frenzied with strain and pressure, but for
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "The Irish are often nervous about having the appropriate face for the occasion. They have to be happy at weddings, which is a strain, so they get depressed; they have
                    
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                    Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 12, 2007
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of
                    
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                    Contributed by Jeff Strite on Apr 28, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    TONY EVANS ON GETTING UN-STUCK
Tony Evans, a popular black preacher from down in Texas, spoke of being on an elevator in a high-rise building. He said he’d never been particularly comfortable on such elevators. There was something about riding up and down in a little box several hundred feet off
                    
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                    Contributed by Gordon Curley on Nov 29, 2010
                
                
                
                    THROUGH HIS BLOOD
In 1927, in West Africa, a blood specimen was taken from a native man named Asibi, who was sick with yellow fever. A vaccine was made from the original strain of virus obtained from this man. In fact, all the vaccine manufactured since 1927 by the Rockefeller Foundation and
                    
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                    Contributed by Darrin Hunt on Jul 2, 2007
                
                
                
                    A term we medics would often use at the scene of an accident was “rubbernecker”.  This was the people who would drive by the scene, straining to see the action without any intention of helping out.  They were just curious, but without any compulsion or compassion.
They were just like
                    
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                    Contributed by Dale Hummel on May 2, 2008
                
                
                
                    TURN TO ME
Dallas Willard in his book, Hearing God, tells the story of a businessman:
Robert C. McFarlane was a well-known businessman in the Los Angeles area. He moved to California from Oklahoma in 1970, and within just a few days of his arrival--due to a disastrous misunderstanding with a
                    
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                    Contributed by Owen Bourgaize on Oct 18, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Dr W E Sangster wrote: "If you are too busy to pray then you are too busy", and hear the words of Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones: "There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christians so much as our prayer life."
There is a hymn that tells us: "Prayer is the simplest form of speech that
                    
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                    Contributed by Donny Granberry on Jun 21, 2008
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    I observed a waitress the other night. We had a large party of people and as they brought our food, that we were hungry for and would provide nourishment to us, she was straining under the weight of the tray filled with food. Yet when she set the meal before us, as she left, she was twirling
                    
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                    Contributed by Ed Vasicek on Feb 13, 2023
                
                
                
                    President [Lincoln]  prefaced a discussion of the draft Emancipation Proclamation by reading aloud from a favorite humorist. In response to the disapproval of some members of his cabinet, Mr. Lincoln said: Gentlemen, why don’t you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I
                    
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                    Contributed by Mark  Beaird on Nov 2, 2000
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Oswald Chambers writes, "A saint’s life is in the hands of God as a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer.  God is aiming at something the saint cannot see; He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says, "I cannot stand any more."  But God does not heed; He goes on stretching
                    
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                    Contributed by Alan Perkins on Mar 28, 2001
                
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    "Self-righteous service requires external rewards. It needs to know that people see and appreciate the effort. It seeks human applause -- with proper religious modesty of course. Self-righteous service is highly concerned about results. It eagerly waits to see if the person served will reciprocate
                    
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