Live more humanly, bravely, and compassionately in such circumstances, mainly through a call to discipleship.

Remember, it's not "stand firm for the faith" but "stand firm in the faith." You've got to own it and live it.

As men we cannot take our eyes off the road for even a second. One bad moment can destroy a lifetime of careful watching. One weak, selfish decision can crash a decade of keeping your eyes on the road. God grant to us Holy Throne-Room clarity at all times in every situation so that what we are really living for doesn't crash before our eyes.

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love" (1 Corinthians 16:13—14).

Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong.

Men were made for war; designed to struggle and strive to protect and provide.

The unpopularity of an obviously right action should not hinder the execution of an obviously right decision.

Oh, well, faint heart never won so much as a scrap of paper

Experience has taught me, said Peter (...) that no situation finds Bunter unprepared. That he should have procured The Times this morning by the simple expedient of asking the milkman to request the postmistress to telephone to Broxford and have it handed to the 'bus-conductor to be dropped at the post-office and brought up by the little girl who delivers the telegrams is a trifling example of his resourceful energy.

As the Head of a woman's college she must, thought Harriet, have had a distasteful task; for she looked as though the word 'compromise' had been omitted from her vocabulary; and all statesmanship is compromise.

If there was a God who cared, could He make her brave? She liked the idea of it all.

If she was going to be brave, then be brave.