The story of the first marathon is interesting. As the legend goes, a young Athenian messenger named Pheidippides was sent from Athens to Sparta to request Spartan support against the Persians in the ...

Nineteenth-century thinker Thomas Carlyle championed inner strength. He stressed duty, discipline, and tenacity over ...

Perseverance is a key idea in the Christian revelation. God’s unique love is known as a steadfast love. Jesus, having loved his own, loved them to the end. Paul’s ultimate word is that the love which ...