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I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith: Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing." [13]
Fight the Good Fight. " Fight the Good Fight " is a traditional, classic favorite hymn and Christian song. [1] It was written by John Samuel Bewley Monsell and published in Hymns of Love and Praise for the Church’s Year (1863). [2] It is sung to the tune Pentecost, written in 1864 by William Boyd. [3]
In 2 Timothy 4:7, Paul writes "I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith." [ 9 ] In 1 Corinthians 9:24–26, [ 10 ] written to the city that hosted the Isthmian Games , [ 11 ] the metaphor is extended from running to other games, such as boxing , [ 12 ] to make the point that winning a prize requires ...
ISBN. 1420930923. Main Street is a satirical novel written by Sinclair Lewis, and published in 1920. Satirizing small-town life, Main Street is perhaps Sinclair Lewis's most famous book and led in part to his eventual 1930 Nobel Prize for Literature. The story is set in the small town of Gopher Prairie, a fictionalized version of Sauk Centre ...
Like a patch of red poppies, each and every one of these patriotic quotes will remind you just how exceptional these soldiers really were, and how much their lives mattered. As Wallace Bruce says ...
"I have fought the good fight, I held my faith. I am not going to say goodbye, I will simply say, until we meet again. I love you very, very much." [132] — Lester Bower, right before being executed (3 June 2015) "...and I love you Sally. And I love you Susan. You let my kids know I went out singing Amazing Grace. And tell the Gissendaner ...
St Crispin's Day Speech. The St Crispin's Day speech is a part of William Shakespeare 's history play Henry V, Act IV Scene iii (3) 18–67. On the eve of the Battle of Agincourt, which fell on Saint Crispin's Day, Henry V urges his men, who were vastly outnumbered by the French, to imagine the glory and immortality that will be theirs if they ...
Both currently and historically, there have been four attitudes towards violence and war and four resulting practices of them within Christianity: non-resistance, Christian pacifism, just war, and preventive war ( Holy war, e.g., the Crusades ). [ 1] In the Roman Empire, the early church adopted a nonviolent stance when it came to war because ...