The very gifts God has given us, the very calling on our lives, is about investing our gifts into the lives of others in order to lift them to their purpose.
The theme of the next sentence is the heart of his message: The Almighty has His own purposes. This is what Lincoln believed now, and why he thought the war had taken the course it had. Events were no...
The solution is to forgive, to let go of the bait in that trap and pull yourself free.
The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all.
QUALITIES OF A GREAT GENERAL 1. Tactically aggressive (loves a fight) 2. Strength of character 3. Steadiness of purpose 4. Acceptance of responsibility 5. Energy 6. Good health and strength George Pat...
Psalm 23:3 every day. Lord, please be my good shepherd and restore my soul.
Physical strength is never what makes a man manly. Rather, it is moral strength that identifies the true man,
Passive men wait for knowledge to come to them. Weak men assume what they need to know will seek them out. Men of great character and drive search out the knowledge they need.
Nonetheless, Lincoln’s story is, in part, that of a man who beat back the spirits that came for him in the night. He might well have been crushed by his woes, by the death of the first son and then th...
NOTHING GREAT WILL EVER BE ACHIEVED WITHOUT GREAT MEN, AND MEN ARE GREAT ONLY IF THEY ARE DETERMINED TO BE SO. FOR GLORY GIVES HERSELF ONLY TO THOSE WHO HAVE ALWAYS DREAMED OF HER. —Charles De Gaulle,...
My central belief, though, is that men are made to protect the territory assigned to them and to assure that everything within that territory fulfills its God-ordained purpose. This is what manhood is...
I’ve searched all the parks in all the cities and found no statues of committees.
Charlemagne’s support for brewing enhanced an already vibrant Christian beer culture in the medieval church, one that is difficult to exaggerate. An example comes to us from a letter that Pope Gregory...
A man is known by the company he keeps. We all know that we can tell a great deal about people by looking at those they call friends. It is also true that we can tell a great deal about ourselves by w...
A NATION’S STRENGTH What makes a nation’s pillars high And its foundations strong? What makes it mighty to defy The foes that round it throng? It is not gold. Its kingdoms grand Go down in battle shoc...
A man cannot fulfill his purpose if he is living for applause, approval, and affirmation in this world. It simply will not come—not enough, certainly, to answer the needs of his soul.
We had hoped. It is what we say on the other side, when our vision is shattered and we feel ourselves to be fools for trusting in something we couldn’t even see.
We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affections. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and...
WE MUST DEVELOP AND MAINTAIN THE CAPACITY TO FORGIVE. HE WHO IS DEVOID OF THE POWER TO FORGIVE IS DEVOID OF THE POWER TO LOVE. THERE IS SOME GOOD IN THE WORST OF US AND SOME EVIL IN THE BEST OF US. WH...
Ultimately, though, you only know who a man is and what he believes by what he does. Not by what he sits around talking about.