No evil propensity of the human heart is so powerful that it may not be subdued by discipline.

A man ought to avow his opinions and defend them with boldness.

Yet often these people who are "on our side" are offended as well. So, instead of helping, we stack additional stones on our existing walls. Without our knowing when it happens, these walls of protection become a prison. At that point, we are not only cautious about who comes in, but in terror we cannot venture outside our fortress.

Grace is God's free empowerment that gives us the ability to go beyond our natural ability.

To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.

369} HOPE. I do believe, as you say, that fear tends much to men's good, and to make them right, at their beginning to go on pilgrimage.

must venture. To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life-everlasting beyond it.

but yet I was bound in the wings of the temptation, and the wind would carry me away.  I thought also of Saul, and of the evil spirit that did possess him: and did greatly fear that my condition was the same with that of his.  1 Sam. x.

Successful and unsuccessful people do not vary greatly in their abilities. They vary in their desires to reach their potential.

It is easier to move from failure to success in from excuses to success.

The reality is that you will never get much done unless you go ahead and do it before you are ready.

Risk must be evaluated not by the fear it generates in you or the probability of your success, but by the value of the goal.