Comments on: Courage http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/04/16/courage/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 20:56:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.5 By: Lesa A. Baumann http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/04/16/courage/#comment-111273 Lesa A. Baumann Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:19:56 +0000 http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/04/16/courage/#comment-111273 Hello Nancy Ann, I appreciated reading your take on "Courage" from a Biblical standpoint. It is refreshing to understand what real courage in women is today! Interestingly, I always went by a personal motto that most people today are like "jellyfish"... they have no backbone.. in other words - Cowards! You find them anywhere and everywhere, and it has always surprised me who turns out to be this way!! However, I also understand this is due to MANY personal negative experiences we all have faced :-( Praise God He can make it all Right :-) Should you be interested, the info at www.4hispeople.com is excellent and pertinant to having real coursage to Stand Fast in these Last Days! Lesa Hello Nancy Ann,

I appreciated reading your take on “Courage” from a Biblical standpoint. It is refreshing to understand what real courage in women is today! Interestingly, I always went by a personal motto that most people today are like “jellyfish”… they have no backbone.. in other words - Cowards! You find them anywhere and everywhere, and it has always surprised me who turns out to be this way!! However, I also understand this is due to MANY personal negative experiences we all have faced :-( Praise God He can make it all Right :-)

Should you be interested, the info at www.4hispeople.com is excellent and pertinant to having real coursage to Stand Fast in these Last Days!

Lesa

]]> By: Valerie (Kyriosity) http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/04/16/courage/#comment-60 Valerie (Kyriosity) Thu, 19 Apr 2007 14:30:18 +0000 http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/04/16/courage/#comment-60 Thanks, Becky, for the context! Thanks, Becky, for the context!

]]> By: Becky http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/04/16/courage/#comment-49 Becky Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:10:10 +0000 http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/04/16/courage/#comment-49 The quote by Lewis is even better in its entirety: "Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful until it became risky." C.S. Lewis Love your blog, and the commonplaces! I've been looking for something like this (by and for women and yet with lots of meaty teaching) for a very long time. God bless! The quote by Lewis is even better in its entirety:
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful until it became risky.” C.S. Lewis

Love your blog, and the commonplaces! I’ve been looking for something like this (by and for women and yet with lots of meaty teaching) for a very long time.

God bless!

]]> By: Valerie (Kyriosity) http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/04/16/courage/#comment-45 Valerie (Kyriosity) Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:56:07 +0000 http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/04/16/courage/#comment-45 Was it Lewis or Chesterton who said something along the lines of "courage is the testing point of all other virtues"? A woman must be courageous a thousand times a day as she decides to love those she is called to love, submit to those in authority over her, be content with her calling and lot, speak or hold her tongue as appropriate, etc. This subject always evokes for me the memory of a cartoon in my denomination's youth magazine back when I was in high school. The strip showed a brief dialogue between two kids: A: Hey, are you going white water rafting with us? B: No, it's against my religion. A: Really? What religion is that? B: I'm a devout coward! Was it Lewis or Chesterton who said something along the lines of “courage is the testing point of all other virtues”? A woman must be courageous a thousand times a day as she decides to love those she is called to love, submit to those in authority over her, be content with her calling and lot, speak or hold her tongue as appropriate, etc.

This subject always evokes for me the memory of a cartoon in my denomination’s youth magazine back when I was in high school. The strip showed a brief dialogue between two kids:

A: Hey, are you going white water rafting with us?
B: No, it’s against my religion.
A: Really? What religion is that?
B: I’m a devout coward!

]]> By: Suzannah http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/04/16/courage/#comment-44 Suzannah Tue, 17 Apr 2007 00:44:15 +0000 http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/04/16/courage/#comment-44 Wow...good stuff. Wow…good stuff.

]]> By: EmilyL http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/04/16/courage/#comment-38 EmilyL Mon, 16 Apr 2007 13:06:57 +0000 http://femina.reformedblogs.com/2007/04/16/courage/#comment-38 Thank you, Mrs. Wilson. I really needed this admonition this morning. Thank you, Mrs. Wilson. I really needed this admonition this morning.

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