There is a difference between a belief and a conviction. A belief can become something you merely hold; a conviction is that which holds you.

How do we build root systems capable of weathering every storm that seeks to draw us into the temporary and the profane?

Ask without pettiness Being before doing Convictions without compromise Discipline without dreariness Ask

There is a difference between belief and conviction. A belief can become something that you merely hold; a conviction is that which holds you.

Thirteen centuries ago, Europe was able to stop the theocratic Islamic tidal wave because it had a faith to defend. The value-less culture of today will not be able to withstand the attack.

They're not going to send a crazy man out to be killed, are they?" "Who else will go?

But I'm afraid you have it backward. It is better to live on one's feet than die on one's knees. That is the way the saying goes.

What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as mature and intelligent as you were and who you had to pretend was not? What could you say to him?

I'm not running away from my responsibilities. I'm running to them. There's nothing negative about running away to save my life.

Maybe you don't just have one Goliath. Maybe you have his whole family!

1 Peter 5 - Be well balanced because Satan 'roams about like a hungry lion seeking who he can devour.

Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear. Bold people do what they know they should do—not what they feel like doing.