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++++++++++The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.”
― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
Someone
has written that anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind.
The book of
Proverbs puts it this way, "He that hath no rule over his own spirit is
like a city that is broken down and without walls."
Someone once said of Jesus, "He had to
be divine. No mortal man could have been
that patient."
One of the finest
examples of patience is an oyster. It takes an irritation and turns it into a
pearl."
In an extension of examples of patience
there is that time when Winston Churchill once commented on a fellow
parliamentarian who had completely lost his cool, "My honorable colleague
should, by now, have trained himself not to generate more indignation than he
has the capacity to hold."
How many folk do
you know and hopefully you are not one of such folk which the following
describes, "You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that
makes him mad." And the size of
some folk you are thinking of is very small.
Anyone can get mad. We all have and thereby earned the dunce cap
of a fool...and to this problem the Apostle Paul writes, If thou bring thy gift
to the altar and (there is a grievance between thee and a neighbor, first
reconcile and then bring thy gift)
How often do you get mad at people who dare to disagree with
you? So who are you? God?
Are you a mother who is
driving your child's love further and further away because you have only one
tone of voice, loud and angry.
Are you a husband or
father who needs a good low cost cave to live in, because you've turned into a
first class bear?
Are you a wife who majors
in nagging and minors in understanding?
A poll was taken some time ago to see what
made one hundred college men and women mad.
And the answers given crucified logic on the spot.
1. People at red lights.
2.
People at green lights.
3.
People talking too much..
4.
People talking too little.
5. People out to get me.
6. People who don't pay any attention to
me.
In the book
"Babbitt" by that great writer of yesteryear, Sinclair Lewis, a man
by the name of Paul Rieslings has a vindictive scolding shrew of a wife by the
name of Zilla.
Lewis describes her in the
following manner, "Zilla's face was wrinkled like the Medusa, her voice
was a dagger of corroded brass; she was full of the joy of righteousness and
bad temper. She was a crusader...who
exulted in the opportunity to be vicious in the name of virtue."
So
then...Set your spiritual GPS on a journey to find patience...and pursue it
with the diligence it deserves.
Pray to close your mouth when what is about
to come out will do you no good or the person who is your target.
Be not perfect...for you will not make it
and neither will I...but aim for perfection...there is no goal more worthy.
A man who is a master of
patience is master of everything else.
George Savile
George Savile
Adopt
the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Molière
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”
― Molière
The soul hardly ever realizes it, but
whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for
God.”
― Hubert Van Zeller
― Hubert Van Zeller
Patience is the ability to idle your motor
when you feel like stripping your gears.”
― Barbara Johnson
― Barbara Johnson
Patience is not a virtue. It is an
achievement.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Toleration is the greatest gift of the
mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself
on a bicycle.”
― Helen Keller
― Helen Keller
What good has impatience ever brought? It
has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation.”
― Steve Maraboli
― Steve Maraboli
BELOW ARE QUOTES FROM POSTINGS ON WYRICK'S
WRITINGS DURING THE LAST FEW MONTHS...THESE POSTINGS ARE
SERMONS REV. WYRICK HAS PREACHED DURING THE LAST 50 PLUS YEARS.
Click on the URL below
and it will take you to this Wyrick's Writings blog.
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Just
remember that “the pain of discipline will cost you pennies, whereas the pain
of regret will cost you millions.”
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How can we keep our faith from being a weak and
fruitless thing? How can we not be
foolish little men and women groveling in the dark shadows of overeager
egos.
Well, first we must do more than just pray. We must believe in our own prayers.
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Anxiety
out of proportion makes us become like a centipede trying to put his best foot
forward.
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It's
an old joke, I went to the doctor and I said, “Doc, when I do this, it hurts.”
And the doctor said, “Then don't do that.”
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How many things have you been anxious
about that were things which you knew before you got into them were probably
going to create some problems for you?
And if you asked your doctor, or your minister, or common sense and your
God, all of them would have said, “Don’t do that.”
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To buy into the
community of accountability we have to realize that like bikers we are divided
into two categories. Those who have fallen and those who will fall for anything. None of us are perfect.
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Think
on it this way, some philosopher of old wrote it and it endures because there
is so much truth in it… every right
implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a
duty
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Some
of the sermon titles posted recently
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Before you decide
to purchase or not purchase his book THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN.... view his Award Winning One Man
Dramatization of Lincoln (since he wrote the script
for this drama it will give you an insight into what you will find in the book
itself)
Available on
Amazon.com in printed form and on Amazon Kindle Books. and at
many other sites
TO VIEW THE LINCOLN
One Man DRAMA and 3 other dramas; Ben Franklin, Martin Luther & Charles
Wesley
click on the
following URL
http://www.speakerneil.com/
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BELOW
ARE MORE 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.
Would you like to read the entire thought
piece? Then... TO TAKE YOU TO THE WYRICK'S WRITING'S
SITE
click on
the following
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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