Courage
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.” ~C.S. Lewis
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Isn’t there anyone who knows what Christmas is all about?
During the making of the animated Christmas classic A Charlie Brown Christmas, Peanuts creator Charles Schulz had a meeting with Lee Mendelson, the show’s producer, and Bill Melendez, its lead animator. The discussion concerned Schulz’s insistence about including a New Testament scripture reading of the Christmas story from the Bible. The scripture reading was to… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Abraham Lincoln
“And having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.” ~Abraham Lincoln Continue reading
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The Man In The Arena ~Theodore Roosevelt
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Horace
“Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts” ~Horace Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Mark Twain
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea! – incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Billy Graham
“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of other are stiffened. “ ~Billy Graham Continue reading
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What Would You Die For?
“Who would you die for? What ideas would you die for? The answer to those questions, for most of human history, would have come very readily to any person’s mouth. Any Comanche would tell you instantly who they would die for and what they would die for. In modern society, it gets more and more… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~C.S. Lewis
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” ~C.S. Lewis Continue reading
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