Tag: courage
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Devotion to the Divine Bond Ah, dearly beloved! Shift your focus to where we stow our blade cleaving division in Loyalty, the sheath to the sword of Willpower. This is an emotional bond and divine covenant, a truth-forged alliance tempered by ethical commitment’s steel. In Eros’s domain, where relationships and Logos dynamics entwine, higher Loyalty…
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Courage Facing Adversity The heart of Perseverance and Analysis is in Courage and Willpower, the indomitable spirit of the soldier of Christ. Within Resurrexit Spiritus’s expansive comprehension of human spiritual existence, Courage is our shield against the hatred, metal honed to withstand the many foul blades of lies and against the sins of Cowardice and…
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Endurance in Face of Discord Beloved seeker after divine strengths in God’s truth, let us direct our gaze toward another important virtue ever fortifying the soldier in Christ: Patience. Spiritual warfare is impossible with a sensitive and bruised noggin, Patience serves as a helmet, protecting the mind from the relentless assaults of discord and delay.…
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Willpower as Spiritual Weapon Dear seeker after truth in God’s love, as we advance in our exploration of spiritual warfare, we are skipping forward all the way to the end now to encounter a weapon of unmatched potency: Willpower. This is not the typical definition of willpower however. What is it then? This is not…
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Bridge to Gratitude for Grace On this blog I have discussed the importance of Magnanimity at length. It is the first of the structural virtues and it truly cannot be overestimated as all other virtues depend completely upon it. “Magna” means great and “anima” means spirit, together it produces grace and forgiveness, the greatest GRACE…
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The Folly of Evil Dear God’s blessed, today we discuss more about power and its folly. A man outside his own power who is yet unaware of the fact, which is to say his control, is considered a fool. (I recommend re-reading the last sentence at least once) What would his control entail though? Is…
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Builtin Transcendent Romanticism What is God’s love, though? We’ve talked before indepth of it but what is it actually? How can one thing encompass both the vastness of all infinity and the infinitesimally temporal as singular human life? We are at the lip of precipice. Across it is a straight and narrow bridge of ice,…
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Rivalry in Redemption Dearly beloved of God, on this most holy of days, I wish to discuss with you the broader theological implications of this apostolic drama, and what it all means in terms of virtue. Immediately recognisable, the dynamics between the other apostles and Paulus are reflective of the ongoing tension between our basic…
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Battle for Basic Identity This dichotomy is an eternal struggle between national autonomy and empowered external empire. Nationalism, properly arranged, seeks merely to honour the natural states of man, where empire seeks to undermine them to empower itself, never coming to grips that they also undermine themselves in the process. They seek to create a…
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Defending Tribal Bonds Politics, philosophy, and human nature are the conceptual terrain of nationhood, tribal bonds, and natural states. I am a nationalist, indeed, but not in the sense that has become so twisted and maligned. It is grounded in a profound respect for the natural states of man as tribal bonds that have been…