Tapferkeit wird dadurch nicht schlechter, dass sie ein wenig schwerfällt.

It is a mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way. You will be thrown into the world some day and then every rational satisfaction your nature that you deny now will assault like a savage appetite.

Likewise today, some Christians are content to merely exist until they die. They don't want to risk anything, to believe God, to grow or mature. They refuse to believe his Word, and have become hardened in their unbelief. Now they're living just to die.

I am so dedicated, so passionate, and that counts for more than what crazy people throw at me.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

There is such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and positive action.

Someone once told me that the '…Baby One More Time' video should be me as a superhero fighting a giant robot monster.

I struggled for a long time with survivin', and no matter what, you keep finding something to fight for.

It's time for us to rise up, get out of the rut and routine, and begin to take our Christian faith seriously.

there is no such thing as a faithless person.' Faith is an aspect of consciousness. We either have faith in fear or we have faith in love, faith

Jude 1:3 commands us to "contend for the faith that was once for all delivered to the saints" (emphasis added). Quite frankly, there are certain things that we need to just adhere to and fight for with deep passion and conviction—the national border issues, as we discussed in chapter 4.

this is not a time of retreat but rather resurgence. This is not a time for compromise but rather courage.