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As a young man, film director
Robert Flaherty spent many months
in the far north looking for iron ore
and cod. He found neither, but he did shoot
70,000 feet of film in his travels.
Someone encouraged him
to edit
the film
and make a documentary,
which Flaherty spent weeks doing.
But just as he finished, a match from his
cigarette dropped
among the celluloid,
consuming the entire film
and
burning Flaherty badly. His
response to the
disaster
was a determination
to return to the far north and make
a film of Eskimo life "that people will
never forget."
He did just that, and the result was
the classic 1922 documentary,
Nanook of the North.
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Someone once asked
Paul Harvey, the
journalist and
radio commentator, to reveal
the secret of his success.
"I get up when I fall down,"
said Harvey.
Every whole is composed of
certain parts so of what parts
is determination composed.
First patience, the kind of
patience
that may be found in
the diary of Christopher
Columbus when in the
midst of
an unchartered sea
he was able
to write "This day we sailed on"
Second:
Courage ' For oft times
courage meets
adversity, the kind
of courage I believe may be
found in a moment in the life
of one Harold Bell Wright.
It
is a long time ago this
story comes from but then courage
is timeless.
This young man
entered the
ministry and
as his first pastorate
began found himself high in the
extravagant beauty and danger
of
cloud draped mountains...
that were now his parish.
One day while riding a
donkey
to one of his pastoral calls, a car
came speeding around a curve,
there was a sickening _ crash and
Harold Bell Wright lay
seriously
injured in the red mud of the
highlands.
He w s so seriously injured
that rather than move him and
risk further injury a tent was
constructed
right on the spot
and he spent his time of recovery
there . Lying on his bed
of pain,
on the very spot of his
accident, he wrote a book entitled
"When
a Man Is a Man. "
Thirdly--there
is an ingredient
for which I have no name... a
kind
of indefinable something
that enables a man like Robert
Louis Stevenson to write these
words.
"For 14 years I have not
had one
day of real health.
I have
awakened sick and
gone to bed weary, and
I have done my work
unflinchingly. I have written
my books in bed and out of
bed, written them when I was
worn by coughing written
them during
hemorrhages,
written them when my head
swam for
weakness. I have
now done this for so long t
at it seems to me I
have
won my wages and recovered
my glove' But the battle
still goes on--ill or well it
is a trifle so long as it goes ."
The world is owned by the
determined
...by
those who support the
causes of good and those who
support
the stench of evil...
Adolph Hitler was determined...
and as he prepared to
begin that
which
would slaughter
millions he wrote... After
fifteen years
of work I have achieved,
as a
common German
soldier and merely
with my fanatical will power,
the unity of
the
German nation and have
freed it from the death sentence
of Versailles.
There is a great wide
land out there a
nd it is
peopled by the
uncommitted
and the
uncompleted. Daily
it raises its flag that
hangs limp and
useless even when a
challenging wind
arrives from just
beyond the
horizons of life.
It's inhabitant are
sad and they know
they are sad
and they know that both
they and the world
in which
they live
would be the
happier...if they would
with just a little more steel
in their
voice spell
DETERMINATION IN
CAPITAL LETTERS
rather than live out
their lives
in lower case.
Just remember that
accomplishment
is what follows after
the
decision to at least "try."
every morning with
determination if you're going
to go to bed with satisfaction.”
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YEARS OF HIS MINISTRY
CLICK ON THE URL
BELOW
Some
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BELOW
ARE QUOTES FROM NEIL'S RECENTLY POSTED SERMONS
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A QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS POSTED ON MY
OTHER BLOG WYRICK'S WRITINGS ON SUNDAY APRIL 15. ENTITILED
Two stores faced each other across a very
busy street. Their owners were in constant competition
with each other. One day, the owner of
one store put out a sign that read – If
you want it, we have it!
Almost immediately the other owner put out a
sign –If we don’t have it, you don’t
need it!
A QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS POSTED ON MY
OTHER BLOG WYRICK'S WRITINGS ON THURSDAY APRIL 13TH. ENTITILED
WHO ARE
YOU?
NO…WHOSE ARE YOU?
Who are you? Whose are
you?
You influence and are influenced
according to the answer you give.
Are you are the flavor of the month because
you are determined to be like everyone else no matter what? If so, consider being more independent in our
thinking and actions...because God wants you to grow up.
It may be easier being someone's shadow but
wouldn't you really rather be a sun.
QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS POSTED ON WYRICK'S WRITINGS THURSDAY APRIL 5 FROM THOUGHT ENTITLED "Who
Are You? Whose Are You?"
This is an old quote, and a romantic one
as well but, nevertheless, can anyone say of you, “I love you not because of who you are,
but because of who I am when I am with you.”
QUOTE FROM THOUGHT PIECE POSTED
ON WYRICK'S WRITINGS TUESDAY APRIL 3 FROM THOUGHT ENTITLED
" WHEN A NATION STRAYS TOO FAR FROM BEING MORAL IT IS WELL ON IT'S WAY
TO BECOMING A MESS
James 4:17
To him therefore who knows to do good, and doesn’t do it,
to him it is sin.
Someone once said: “A
belief is what you hold, a conviction is what holds you!”
So what holds you,
constructs you, leads you with a push when needed?
Quotes
POSTED ON WYRICK'S WRITING THURSDAY MARCH 29th THOUGHTS ENTITLED WHO
ARE YOU?
NO…WHOSE ARE YOU?
In a Peanuts
cartoon strip Peppermint Patty is shown talking to Charlie Brown.
“Guess what, Chuck? It’s the first day
of school and I got sent to the principal’s office.
And it’s your fault!”
Charlie Brown responds, “My fault? How
could it be my fault? Why do you say everything is my fault?”
To which she declares, “You’re my
friend, aren’t you, Chuck? You should have been a better influence on me.”
In the comics, it’s funny… but in real life it’s much more
complicated.
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Yes, God loves you the way you
are but he loves you too much to let you stay that way.
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Click on the URL below to WATCH NEIL IN
HIS WORLD FAMOUS ONE MAN DRAMATIZATIONS OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN, BEN FRANKLIN,
CHARLES WESLEY AND MARTIN LUTHER
To
Order and Read
Neil's 9th book THE
SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN
GO TO amazon.com
QUOTES ABOUT THIS WONDERFUL INSPIRING INFORMATIVE book
STILL RECEIVING RAVE REVIEWS 8 YEARS AFTER IT'S PUBLICATION.
"Positive,
powerful utterances...skillfully enhancing our understanding and appreciation
of Lincoln while revealing the Divine source of his strength."
Lt.
Colonel C.A. Olsen (Ret.) Asbury College (Professor Ret.)
"The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln is
an extremely well written book that investigates what might be
termed the spiritual side of President Lincoln. It's both scholarly and very
readable. I came away impressed at Mr. Wyrick's portrayal of the President and
with an altered and enlarged vision of the man:'
William Hoffman, Award winning fiction writer; author of Blood and Guile, and
Wild Thorn
"Wyrick has authored a wonderful
examination of the spirituality of one of American history's most devoutly
religious leaders...a pleasant and readable book that has a rich depth of
information."
Maynard Pittendreigh Presbyterian
minister
"When it comes to invoking religion in support
of any of their decisions, politicians need to sit at the feet of Abraham
Lincoln. Reinhold Niebuhr once called him 'America's greatest theologian.' Why
so great? Because he invariably distinguished between human works and the works
of the Almighty. As Wyrick says, 'He wore the mantle of humility
easily: because he was more impressed with what God was doing in the world than
with what he, president of the United States in the midst of an awful crisis,
was doing. That is why in his last major speech he distinguished between both
human causes in the Civil War and the Almighty's 'own purposes.' Lincoln would
have agreed that it is better to leave God-talk out of politics than to
decorate human proposals with divinity. This is a book for our American time.
Through his careful study of Lincoln's career, Wyrick compels us to remember
that piety belongs in politics only when piety transcends
politics."
Dr.
Donald W. Shriver
Emeritus professor at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
Author of An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics
"V. Neil Wyrick's fine work allows the reader to appreciate Abraham
Lincoln's Christian commitment and his prophetic role in American history.
Should have a wide readership."
James
H. Smylie Professor
of Church History (Ret.) Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia
"Neil
Wyrick's The Spiritual Abraham Lincoln should be read by anyone attempting to understand the man who was probably
the most complex person to ever hold the office of president of the United States.
Dr. Wyrick is intent on demonstrating that the spirituality so often expressed
in Lincoln's writings and speeches was not merely lip service to a Deity, but
rather expressions of a profound faith in a real God. It was this faith that
provided the wisdom, compassion, insight and sometimes steel that Lincoln would
need in full measure as he led the United States through
the Civil War. Dr. Wyrick's clear and unpretentious style of presentation is
very much in keeping with the character ofhis subject, and in so doing, Wyrick
makes his point very well that Lincoln, his beliefs, and the faith that formed
them, are as relevant to a troubled America in 2004 as they were in 1863."
Daniel Allen Butler, author
of "Unsinkable"; The Full Story of the RMS Titanic, The
Lusitania and The Age o f Cunard
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