Life is filled with terrifying moments, and we cannot stop the onslaught of fear any more than we can hold back the wind. But we can always choose our response. The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet. Allow fear to drive you toward God.

First and foremost, we are not to be afraid. We are to banish every aspect of fear from our minds and not allow it to muddy our thinking.

Though she never moved, she was more alive than I. In the light of her beauty and strength, I realized what I had lost. Because of fear, I had forfeited strength, life, and beauty. I had lost a sense of my true self, and with that loss so much of what God wanted for me was yet unrealized.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

But don't imagine that always brave translates to never afraid.

Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have.

Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end.

Truly, spiritual courage is on the endangered character-quality list.

I promise you that one day you will stand aside and look at your difficult times, you will realize that he was always there beside you.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

There is a driving force more powerful than steam, electricity and nuclear power: the will.