Will Phillips
Will Phillips
Will Phillipsis an American student from West Fork, Arkansas. At the age of ten, while a fifth grader at West Fork Elementary School in 2009, Phillips gained international attention for his refusal to say the Pledge of Allegiance because of social-political reasons...
thinking can-do presumptuous
It is almost as presumptuous to think you can do nothing as to think you can do everything.
friday light darkness
We may say that on the first Good Friday afternoon was completed that great act by which light conquered darkness and goodness conquered sin. That is the wonder of our Saviour's crucifixion.
scripture argument conviction
Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.
comfort trouble infinite
Never fear to bring the sublimest motive to the smallest duty, and the most infinite comfort to the smallest trouble.
christmas stars lying
0 little town of Bethlehem, How still we see thee lie! Above thy deep and dreamless sleep The silent stars go by.
life humble light
There is no life so humble that, if it be true and genuinely human and obedient to God, it may not hope to shed some of His light. There is no life so meager that the greatest and wisest of us can afford to despise it. We cannot know at what moment it may flash forth with the life of God.
trouble
The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.
inspirational motivational hope
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
faces tunes helping
Christianity helps us face the music even when we don't like the tune.
giving advice desire
The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.
faults bears vengeful
Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.
prayer tasks praying
Pray for powers equal to your tasks.
prayer lying gods-will
Nothing lies beyond the reach of prayer except that which lies outside the will of God.
christmas song xmas
The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of the jewel burns lustrous and fair, and its soul full of music breaks the air, when the song of angels is sung.