All of the goodness in the world doesn't amount to a hill of beans without courage

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

You won't take risk without courage.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Courage is the first of the human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all the others.

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

Courage is very important. Like a muscle it is strengthened by use.

Can we live now "as if" God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The

But those of us who follow his conducting through early movements will, with renewed strength, someday burst into song.

That, I believe, is also what faith sometimes requires: trusting God when there is no apparent evidence of him—as Job did. Trusting in his ultimate goodness, a goodness that exists outside of time, a goodness that time has not yet caught up with.

God's impressions within and His Word without are always corroborated by His providence around, and we should quietly wait until these three focus into one point. … If you do not know what you ought to do, stand still until you do.

What might God be trying to grow in your character or cement in your relationship with Him by keeping you separated from some of the things you want but don't yet have?