encouragement
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The power of the tongue
With a new year upon us, I think it’s always important to take the time to reflect on the past year and think of how we can forge ahead in the new year to come. One of the things that I am ever so mindful of, and I really want to implement in 2013, is Continue reading
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The importance of free speech
We live in a world of diverse ideas and opinions. Everyone seems to be an expert in something. The concept of right and wrong in a pluralistic environment can seem so rhetorical and passé. Absolute truth does not exist (or at least, out of our grasp) and relativism reigns supreme in terms of the prevailing Continue reading
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The importance of words
We have all heard it. “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” This childhood rhyme, so often spoken in playgrounds and in public, tell us that physical things that can physically bruise us have the power to hurt us, but the ethereal, abstract, intangible nature of words won’t. Sadly, Continue reading
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Encouragement of the Day
“We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot.” – Saint Augustine Continue reading
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Encouragement of the Day
“We do not need the grace of God to stand crises, human nature and pride are sufficient, we can face the strain magnificently; but it does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours in every day as a saint, to go through drudgery as a disciple, to live an ordinary, unobserved, ignored Continue reading
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Encouragement of the Day
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” – Marcus Aurelius Continue reading
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Encouragement of the Day
“In general, Jesus doesn’t spend a great deal of time qualifying his points and making sure that everybody understands him clearly according to the recent political correctness. I am afraid liberal people are just as trapped in political correctness as are conservatives. Liberals often want you to say what will be inoffensive to any ego, Continue reading
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The importance of being you
I have a horrible habit of comparing myself to others. I look at other people and not only wish I had what they had, but wish that I could be more like them. I know that it’s a bad thing to do and yet it’s really hard not to fall in that trap. I grew Continue reading
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Encouragement of the Day
“Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart. – Seneca” Continue reading
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