Study in light of Spiritism; Moral Courage; Spiritism Brings a tool on enCOURAGEment: the knowledge of things that enables humans to know where we have come from, where we are going and why we are on the earth, we are called upon to try and see things from a higher point of view;   the perspective of happiness and future reward that awaits us should give us the patience, resignation and courage needed to follow our pathway to the end.

1. COURAGE
HAPPY NEW YEAR
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one
thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press
on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in
Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13-14

2. COURAGE

3. COURAGE
“I can do all this through him who gives me strength.”
Philippians 4:13

4. 15 I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what
I hate I do. 18 - For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it
out. Romans 7:15 & 18
COURAGE

5. “Paul was an accomplisher who strived daily to reach the light, walking in the darkness of the
world to meet the Master who made Himself heard at the crossroads of his life.” Emmanuel
COURAGE

6. Forgetting what is behind and
straining toward what is
ahead, 14 I press on toward the
goal to win the prize for which
God has called me
heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13-14
COURAGE

7. Spiritism Brings a tool on enCOURAGEment:
 the knowledge of things that enables humans to know where we have come from, where we are going and
why we are on the earth, we are called upon to try and see things from a higher point of view;
 the perspective of happiness and future reward that awaits us should give us the patience,
resignation and courage needed to follow our pathway to the end.
COURAGE

8. “More courage is needed to overcome oneself
than to overcome other people.” (…) vice such
as selfishness is the “monster that devours all
minds.”
COURAGE

9. “Duty is an individual’s moral obligation, first toward him or herself and toward others immediately thereafter.”
Duty is the practical summary of all moral speculation; it
is the courage of the soul who confronts the distress of
life’s struggles; it is both strict and yielding; ready to adapt
itself to diverse complications; it remains unbending
before temptation.”
“Humans should love duty, not because it preserves them
against life’s troubles – humankind cannot avoid those –
but because it provides the soul with the strength it needs
for its development.”
COURAGE

10. MORAL COURAGE – MORAL DUTY
• She was born in 1997 in Pakistan
• 2009: Wrote anonymous BBC blog about life under the Taliban
• 2009-10: Had her identity revealed in TV interviews and a documentary
• 2011: Won the International Children’s Peace Prize nominee
• 2012: was shot in assassination attempt by Taliban
• 2013: Became a Nobel Peace Prize nominee, and was named one of
Time magazine’s most influential people

11. MORAL COURAGE – MORAL DUTY
"They thought that the bullets would silence us, but
they failed," she said. "And then, out of that silence,
came thousands of voices."

12. "I am sending you out like sheep among
wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and
as innocent as doves. Matthew 10:16
COURAGE

13. 30 But the very hairs of your head are all
numbered. 31 Fear ye not therefore, ye are of
more value than many sparrows.
32 Whosoever therefore shall confess me
before men, him will I confess also before my
Father which is in heaven. 33 But whosoever
shall deny me before men, him will I also deny
before my Father which is in heaven.
(Matthew)
COURAGE

14. “But let your statement be: Yes yes
or no no.”
Matthew 5:37
COURAGE

15. Therefore, be perfect as your heavenly Father
is perfect.
(Mt. 5:44, 46-48)
COURAGE

16. COURAGE
13 Brothers and sisters, I do not
consider myself yet to have taken
hold of it. But one thing I do:
Forgetting what is behind and
straining toward what is ahead, 14 I
press on toward the goal to win the
prize for which God has called me
heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13-14