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A version of the Serenity prayer appearing on an Alcoholics Anonymous medallion (date unknown).. The Serenity Prayer is an invocation by the petitioner for wisdom to understand the difference between circumstances ("things") that can and cannot be changed, asking courage to take action in the case of the former, and serenity to accept in the case of the latter.
Oh, precious words that Jesus said: F.J. Crosby: 76: O love that passeth knowledge: Lyman G Cuyler* 83: Blessed Redeemer, full of compassion: F.J. Crosby: 96: Oh, wondrous Name by prophets heard: Julia Sterling* 97: The Ninety and Nine: There were ninety and nine that safely lay: Elizabeth C. Clephane: 104: The Lily of the Valley: I've found a ...
Sapere aude is the Latin phrase meaning "Dare to know"; and also is loosely translated as "Have courage to use your own reason", "Dare to know things through reason". ". Originally used in the First Book of Letters (20 BC), by the Roman poet Horace, the phrase Sapere aude became associated with the Age of Enlightenment, during the 17th and 18th centuries, after Immanuel Kant used it in the ...
The Bible [a] is a collection of religious texts and scriptures that are held to be sacred in Christianity, and partly in Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baháʼí Faith, and other Abrahamic religions. The Bible is an anthology (a compilation of texts of a variety of forms) originally written in Hebrew, Aramaic, and Koine Greek. The texts ...
Lullay, mine Liking, my dear Son, mine Sweeting, Lullay, my dear heart, mine own dear darling. I saw a fayr maydyn syttyn and synge, Sche lullyd a lytyl chyld, a swete lordyng, Refrain. I saw a fair maiden, sitten and singe, Sche lulled a litel child, a swete lording. Refrain. I saw a fair maiden, sitting and sing, She lulled a little child a ...
President Biden and first lady Jill Biden remembered former President Carter, who died on Sunday, as a “dear friend” who “saved, lifted, and changed the lives of people all across the globe ...
The words of Wyatt's poem can be read in two or more ways, as literal and symbolic with puns and riddles running through them. He was a master at the use of words. The first line is an antimetabole a type of chiasmus in which a sentence of ABBA structure, is exactly reversed: "They flee from me, that sometime did me seek," thus hinting at Wyatt ...
The debt ceiling returned on January 2, but Congress has several months to address it before the nation could default on its obligations. (Jemal Countess/Getty Images)