A defeatist attitude was not in his gene pool.

It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.

Do and dare what is right, not swayed by the whim of the moment. Bravely take hold of the real, not dallying now with what might be. Not in the flight of ideas but only in action is freedom. Make up your mind and come out into the tempest of living. God's command is enough and your faith in him to sustain you. Then at last freedom will welcome your spirit amid great rejoicing.

The only thing I am really clear about in the whole problem is that a 'culture' that breaks down in the face of danger is no culture.

The soldier of Christ is obligated to fight against sin and error. His battle against the Antichrist is prompted by his loved for Christ, and for the salvation of souls. He fights this battle for the salvation of those who have gone astray. His attitude is one of true love. But those who flee from the inevitable battle, and treat irenically those who have gone astray, obfuscating their error and playing down their revolt against God, are, fundamentally, victims of egoism and complacency.

The biggest mistake sometimes is to play things very safe in this life and end up being moral failures.

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

Resolved, never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

The warrior's approach is to say 'yes' to life: 'yes' to it all.

Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.

In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.