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this blog read a quote from Rev. Wyrick's highly accalimed 9th book THE
SPIRITUAL ARAHAM LINCOLN
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Remember
and believe it that “All things turn out for good to those who love God,.”
Rom.8:28.
It was a moment of
inspirational genius when Ted Engstrom wrote…
"Cripple him, and you
have a Sir Walter Scott. …….Lock him in a prison cell, and you have a
John Bunyan.………Bury him in the snows of Valley Forge, and you have a
George Washington. ………..Strike him down with infantile paralysis, and he
becomes Franklin Roosevelt. ……….Burn him so severely that the doctors
say he'll never walk again, and you have Glenn Cunningham ……-- who set the
world's one mile record in 1934………… Deafen him
and you have a Ludwig van Beethoven. ……….Have him or her born black in
a society filled with racial discrimination, and you have a Booker
T.Washington, a Marian Anderson, a George Washington Carver.…………..
Call him a slow learner,
"retarded," and write him off as uneducable, and you have an Albert
Einstein..
Which
is to say… Life is about 20% in what happens to us and 80% in the way we
respond to the events.
Everyone
gets discouraged from time to time…it is just that when it happens some folk
collapse and others stagger but refuse to fall.
Do you want to handle your
discouragements rather than have them handle you?
Lift
up your eyes toward the stars more often than you look down at dragging feet.
When
blocked in one direction…change your direction….you may find it was better than
the direction you were wasting your time on.
Retreat not from your problem…retreat
toward prayer…there is a difference.
This
is what Jesus did.
Make a thanksgiving list even
though you don’t feel like it…otherwise you do nothing but get more
discouraged.
Above all
else…don’t resign from life…you have a duty to yourself and
those around you and certainly to your God to persevere.
It isn’t about how difficult
it is…it is just that you don't want to join and become a permanent member of
the Fraternity of the Fatigued.
Discouraged?
Remember how discouraged Noah must have gotten during the 120 years it took to
build that ark.
All those animals
bellowing and squirming and squealing. And the local
populace calling him a crazy man.
And since nothing is ever
built without hitting the thumb with a hammer.
Lots
of patience.
And Jesus, yes he was the Son
of God but also the Son of Man so he could live among us and understand us and
be subject to the same emotions as us …
Jesus being ignored by the
reigning church leaders and discouraged by his own disciples when they couldn’t
always understand him.
Lots
of patience.
Hold
on! Never quit. NEVER! Remember and believe Philippians 4:13
also. “I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.”
There’s
something in me that gets excited when I meet someone who deserves to be in a
Rocky movie, who accepts the fact that life begins as a blank sheet of
paper.
And before the
final writing there has been written a large collection of both joys and
sorrows.
And they have refused to go
down.
Just
remember…
When things go wrong, as they
sometimes will,
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are lows, and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but DON’T QUIT.
When the road you’re trudging seems all up hill,
When the funds are lows, and the debts are high,
And you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit,
Rest if you must, but DON’T QUIT.
Life
is strange with its twists and turns,
As everyone of us sometimes learns.
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he just stuck it out.
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow.
You may succeed with another blow.
As everyone of us sometimes learns.
And many a failure turns about,
When he might have won had he just stuck it out.
Don’t give up though the pace seems slow.
You may succeed with another blow.
Success
is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit,
It’s when things seem worse, that YOU MUST NOT QUIT.
The silver tint of the clouds of doubt.
And you never can tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems so far.
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit,
It’s when things seem worse, that YOU MUST NOT QUIT.
Indeed let me close with this
quote and then repeat it again…
” The
business of heaven is operating on a divine schedule that is not altered by our
impatience. God may sometimes seem slow, but He is never late!
” The business of heaven is
operating on a divine schedule that is not altered by our impatience. God may
sometimes seem slow, but He is never late!
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QUOTES ON NOT QUITTING
Winners never quit,
and quitters never win.”
~Vince Lombardi~
Men do not quit playing
because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
When faced with a mountain, I
will not quit! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through,
tunnel underneath - or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine, with
God's help!
Fredrick von Schilier
Fredrick von Schilier
A
new quote below from Rev. Wyrick's 9th
book THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN (read the rave reviews below the quote)
Was Lincoln,
before he died, overly proud that he had so much to do with the preserving of
the Union?
It
is more likely that he quoted once again words of one of his favorite poets,
William Knox, “Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?”
As he walked the streets of Richmond, Virginia
in an unannounced visit after that city had fallen to the North, it was said
that he was the man of the people among the people.
When
an elderly Negro had run toward him shouting praise, Lincoln lifted his hat and bowed, and wiped
away a tear or two.
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"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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