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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A Friend So Kind
A Friend So Kind ~The Choir, Burning Like The Midnight Sun Editors Note: I was listening to music on the way to work this morning, when The Choir’s, “A Friend So Kind” made its way thru the playlist. I believe this is another tribute to Gene Eugene, who’s passing left a huge void, not just in… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson Continue reading
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George Gray
George Gray By Edgar Lee Masters From Spoon River Anthology, 1915 I HAVE studied many times The marble which was chiseled for me— A boat with a furled sail at rest in a harbor. In truth it pictures not my destination But my life. For love was offered me and I shrank from its disillusionment;… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
“When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the World, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it come off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away timid adventurers.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Continue reading
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Courage Is The Standing Army Of The Soul
Courage Is The Standing Army Of The Soul ~ Henry Van Dyke. Manhood, Faith and Courage. (1906) This is a sermon about courage – one of the simplest and most straightforward of the virtues; necessary, and therefore possible, for every true and noble human life. It is a quality that we admire by instinct. We… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Winston Churchill
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. ” ~Winston Churchill Continue reading
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True and False Manliness
Editor’s Note: This passage is one of the best descriptions of manliness I’ve read. Note the date of its publishing and feel the full weight of how far we have slipped in our definition of what it means to be fully a man. In this day and age, the world is in need of real… Continue reading
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Quote To Ponder ~Benjamin Disraeli
“Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.” ~Benjamin Disraeli Continue reading
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