Contributed by Warren Lamb on Oct 7, 2007
Prejudice is a disease of the mind that affects the heart. Prejudice is, literally, a pre-formed opinion, usually unfavorable, based on insufficient knowledge, irrational feelings or inaccurate stereotypes.
We are all familiar with what is called racial prejudice. More accurately, it should be
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
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"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and
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Common sense is the collection of prejudices
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
"Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason, they
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
Reasoning against a prejudice is like fighting against a shadow; it exhausts the reasoner
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"Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Oct 17, 2009
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Prejudice Comes from an Unclean Heart
I like this thought posted by Mike Atkinson in his daily email humor list some time ago. If you can start the day without caffeine; if you can get going without pep pills; if you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains; if you can resist complaining
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Contributed by Pat Cook on Aug 4, 2005
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Others have prejudices, but we have convictions.
Others are conceited, but in me it’s self-respect.
Others are social-climbing snobs, but with me it’s just trying to get ahead.
If you are unyielding about your views of Scripture, that’s just plain stubbornness; but in me, it’s contending for
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Contributed by Sermon Central on Apr 11, 2007
Never try to reason the prejudice out of a man. It was not reasoned into him
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"Too many of our prejudices are like pyramids upside down. They rest on tiny, trivial incidents, but they spread
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In 1884 a young man died, and after the funeral his grieving parents decided to establish a memorial to him. With that in mind they met with Charles Eliot, president of Harvard University. Eliot received the unpretentious couple into his office and asked what he could do. After they expressed their
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Contributed by Curt Cizek on Aug 8, 2008
Because our sins of prejudice have been paid for, God calls us to judge correctly.
In the movie "Shallow Hal" Hal, played by Jack Black, sees people based on their outward beauty. He is then hypnotized by the self-help guru, Tony Robbins. For the rest of the movie, he sees the people around him
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Lutheran
Contributed by Sermon Central on Sep 8, 2011
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HONEY ALL THE WAY DOWN
In one of his famous escapades, Winnie the Pooh, this lovable toy bear, tries to trap an elephant--or, as he pronounces it, a heffalump.
So Pooh digs a hole to catch the heffalump, and decides to bait the trap with some of his own favorite food: honey. But of course, it is
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