True will-power and courage are not on the battlefield, but in everyday conquests over our intertia, laziness, boredom.

The future awaits those with the courage to create it.

Begin as if you will finish. Let the story be told that you had the courage to begin.

The deepest courage we can exercise is continuing to believe in our dreams until we make them come true.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract but not for the concrete.

Do not be too timid and squeamish. ... All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.

But the Lord say he won't put more on us than we can stand. If we can't take it, he'll be right there beside us giving stren'th we didn't know we had.

Paul says that Spirit lives inside us, detecting needs we cannot articulate and expressing them in a language we cannot comprehend. When we don't know what to pray, he fills in the blanks. Evidently, it is our very helplessness that God, too, delights in. Our weakness gives opportunity for his strength.

Self-sufficiency which first reared its head in the Garden of Eden, is the most fatal sin because it pulls us as if by a magnet that their lack of self-sufficiency is obvious to them every day. They must turn somewhere for strength, and sometimes they go through life relying on their natural gifts. But there's a chance, just a chance, that people who lack such natural advantages may cry out to God in their time of need.

True health is the strength to live, the strength to suffer, and the strength to die.

Dr. Eric Cassell, an internist at Cornell University, concluded about his patients, "If I had to pick the aspect of illness that is most destructive to the sick, I would choose the loss of control.