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acclaimed One Man Dramas ABRAHAM
LINCOLN, BEN FRANKLIN CHARLES WESLEY, MARTIN LUTHER (NBC Special) click on the link
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Below
the thoughts below read a quote from Rev. Wyrick's applauded 9th book THE
SPIRITUAL ARAHAM LINCOLN...AVAILABLE ON AMAZON.COM AND ON KINDLE
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It's been a long while since I
heard this bit of wisdom from an old farmer in my first pastorate 58 years
ago...and I may have embellished on it or forgotten some of it...but this is
how I remember it.
"Son,"
he said, I was 26 and he was pushing toward ninety. "Son, when you're down a bit just
remember that every path has its puddles and that if you want to start feeling
better be a nicer person. 'You'll just always feel much better when
you practice kindness than when you practice meanness and it really doesn't
take a very big person to carry a grudge."
A very small, insecure person can carry a very large grudge.
Okay...it's
experimental time.
Work with me on
this one. It may help keep you from being
a "grudger," or at least lessen the number of the "grudgees" you hold in your
heart and are giving you heart trouble.
First, make a fist and squeeze it as tight as you can.
Now
squeeze tighter...and tighter still...and more so..,
Now
hold it there...until your hand is getting tired...keep on squeezing...
...enough
already? You feel it is time to let up.
Now notice something. If
you squeezed them long enough and hard enough, there is pain in your fingers
now that you finally let go. And if you
went even longer than common sense told you you should...it would hurt even
more.
Ah, are you
beginning to get the message? The longer you carry a grudge and squeeze it
close, the more it hurts you.
Another phenomenon...the longer you squeeze the
more energy it takes to remain focused and
accomplish the same amount of
"squeeze power." That's right..the longer you carry a grudge the more of your
life and energy it consumes...and the less time and energy you have for
everything else.
It has been said that life is too short to carry a grudge. Well, actually it's too long.
It has been said that life is too short to carry a grudge. Well, actually it's too long.
QUOTES ON
GRUDGES
Be kind to unkind people - they need it
most!
Ashleigh Brilliant
Ashleigh Brilliant
Be not afraid because you have faltered
anywhere. For He has said, I forgive, even as you forgive others. Then how
forgiving are you? Answer this, and you will know just how you have been
forgivien. It is the law, it is the Lord, it is love.
Edgar Cayce
Edgar Cayce
He that cannot forgive others breaks the
bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.
Thomas Fuller
Thomas Fuller
The art of being wise is the art of knowing
what to overlook.
William James
William James
There is some good in the worst of us and
some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate
our enemies.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the
violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Mark Twain
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THEN CLICK ON "VOICE" AT THE
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Below is a quote from Rev. Wyrick's 9th book
THE SPIRITUAL ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
It is little wonder that once the war was
over, wretched memories fed anger loud and long. Neither side could be proud of some things
that happened during the war or at their many prison camps. The meanness in some men had multiplied. They felt their uniforms allowed it.
Andersonville, or Camp Sumter
as it was officially known, in southwest Georgia is remembered as one of the
worst.
By the end of the war, it had
held 50,000 prisoners on a piece of land no larger than twenty-six acres.
Some men had called pits in
the ground their home. During its short
fourteen-month existence, 13,000 soldiers who had survived in battle died in
captivity under the most terrible conditions.
When the war was over the
superintendent was hanged.
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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE BOOK
"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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Neil also writes for go60.us to check out his writings...
click on
"Voice" on the home page and then on the list of authors click
on Neil Wyrick
Recent articles Rev. Wyrick has written for this web site are:
REFLECTIONS
·
Here Comes Summer (July 2012)
·
Spring
(May 2012)
·
Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow (April 2012)
·
Wayward and Windy (April 2012)
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Some of the sermon titles
posted recently on Wyrick's Writings
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BELOW ARE MORE QUOTES FROM NEIL'S RECENTLY POSTED SERMONS
on Wyrick's Writings
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A QUOTE FROM THOUGHTS POSTED ON MY
OTHER BLOG WYRICK'S WRITINGS ENTITLED
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!
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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
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REVIEWS 8 YEARS AFTER IT'S PUBLICATION.
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