Not exact matches
If you read the Bible
often, with an open mind and considering the entirety of the context, God's love will shine through for you, and
give you the strength &
courage to reflect His love upon those around.
Atheists
often get a bad rap among Christians, but in my experience, many atheists are atheists simply because they have the
courage to ask questions many Christians are afraid to ask, and when Christians hear these questions from atheists, the Christians either condemn the atheist for asking such questions, or
gives some answer that is not really an answer at all.
For example, in one speech Hitler said, «In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would
give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that He may grant us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that He may ever
give us the
courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger... I am convinced that men who are created by God should live in accordance with the will of the Almighty... If Providence had not guided us I could
often never have found these dizzy paths... Thus it is that we National Socialists, too, have in the depths of our hearts our faith.
He may also have discovered that the Song of Solomon,
often called the Greatest of Songs, lifts the soul beyond the «thou shalts and thou shalt nots» of our pedestrian lives and
gives us
courage to confront and challenge the barriers that limit women and the assumptions that limit all who are different.
Given the
often well deserved reputation evangelicals have, I admire your
courage.
When the practice of sex - change surgery first emerged back in the early 1970s, I would
often remind its advocating psychiatrists that with other patients, alcoholics in particular, they would quote the Serenity Prayer, «God,
give me the serenity to accept the things I can not change, the
courage....
Even now, some 30 years later, I
often notice that it is this same deliberate attention — the essence of wanting to want — that
gives me the
courage to keep seeking out my own erotic truths.
For a film that goes against the grain so
often by upholding age over beauty, it's unfortunate Meyers lacks the
courage to
give us an honest truth without excessive sugar - coating.
He has
given birth to a mixed progeny of painters who have been inspired by his dynamism and have
often taken from it a rather spurious
courage.
On such an afternoon some score of members of the High Court of Chancery bar ought to be... engaged in one of the ten thousand stages of an endless cause, tripping one another up on slippery precedents, groping knee - deep in technicalities, running their goat - hair and horse - hair warded heads against walls of words and making a pretence of equity with serious faces, as players might... between the registrar's red table and the silk gowns, with bills, cross-bills, answers, rejoinders, injunctions, affidavits, issues, references to masters, masters» reports, mountains of costly nonsense, piled before them... This is the Court of Chancery, which has its decaying houses and its blighted lands in every shire, which has its worn - out lunatic in every madhouse and its dead in every churchyard, which has its ruined suitor with his slipshod heels and threadbare dress borrowing and begging through the round of every man's acquaintance, which
gives to monied might the means abundantly of wearying out the right, which so exhausts finances, patience,
courage, hope, so overthrows the brain and breaks the heart, that there is not an honourable man among its practitioners who would not
give — who does not
often give — the warning, «Suffer any wrong that can be done you rather than come here!