Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using—you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty.

Did you ever feel as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using-you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?

Elisabeth Elliot is more precise when she explains that "freedom and discipline have come to be regarded as mutually exclusive, when in fact freedom is not at all the opposite, but the final reward, of discipline.

From biblical times to our time, godly people have always been spiritually disciplined people.

I've seen Christians who are faithful to the church of God, who frequently demonstrate genuine enthusiasm for the things of God, and who are committed to the preaching of the Word of God, yet who trivialize their effectiveness for the kingdom of God through lack of discipline.

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the ability to act effectively, in spite of fear.

opportunities are always lost when we let fear overrule our faith

Every achiever I have ever met says, My life turned around when I began to believe in me.

If you don't take risks, you'll have a wasted soul.

History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.

Sin makes man a coward; but a life in the Truth of Christ makes Him bold.