That is the often quoted commencement address that Winston Churchill supposedly gave. According to the Churchill Centre the actual quote is a bit different and part of a longer speech:
Never, never, in nothing great or small, large or petty, never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.
Why do I post this? Because sometimes it just feels like the world doesn’t need any more words. There are enough books already. Why write another one? Why write anything at all? Why even finish this blog post?
But then I think about Richard Bach: “A professional writer is an amateur who didn’t quit.”
Never, never, never, never, never give up. Who cares if Winston really said it? Give me a cigar and a bowtie, because I’m going to keep quoting him.
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writing is a form of relating.
God is into relating.
Mark, I love the Richard Bach quote. I think I’m going to type it out and hang it over my desk! Thanks!
I like your words. So I, for one, hope you never give up.
Looks like we are on the same page again, Marcus… I posted this Beuchner quote today:
“Maybe nothing is more important than that we keep track, you and I, of these stories of who we are and where we have come from and the people we have met along the way because it is precisely through these stories in all their particularity… that God makes himself known to each of us most powerfully and personally.
If this is true, it means that to lose track of our stories is to be profoundly impoverished not only humanly but spiritually…”
Keep writing… traces of His graces… your soul needs it.
Every blessing, brother…
All’s grace,
Ann
I’ve often thought that we don’t need any more books. But then I run to the library to get another one. We need the viewpoints to be varied. We need to hear other people’s opinions; and we need to be heard. So, keep on blogging!
Exactly what I needed to hear. Thanks for the encouragement to keep writing.
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