Quotes about Courage

How should a Christian act when evil was in power?

We knew that in spite of daily mounting risks we had no choice but to move forward. This was evil's hour: we could not run away from it. Perhaps only when human effort had done its best and failed, would God's power alone be free to work.

He stamped on his cigar stub in the ashtray beside the radio and with it, it seemed, the anger too, for his voice grew gentle again. "Oh, my dears, I am sorry for all Dutchmen now who do not know the power of God. For we will be beaten. But He will not.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow; it empties today of its strength.

But I am in prison, dear lady from Haarlem, a prison stronger than this one.

We had had many Jewish children over a night or several nights at the Beje and even the youngest had developed the uncanny silence of small hunted things.

Love is not soft as water is; it is solid as a rock on which the waves of hatred beat in vain.

I looked at my sister kneeling beside me in the light of burning Holland. "Oh Lord," I whispered, "listen to Betsie, not me, because I cannot pray for those men at all.

In 1959 Corrie was part of a group that visited Ravensbruck, which was then in East Germany, to honor Betsie and the 96,000 other women who died there. There Corrie learned that her own release had been part of a clerical error; one week later all women her age were taken to the gas chamber.

The strongest man is not the one who lifts the most weight but the one who has the most faith.

Faith doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Faith means you don't let fear stop you.

Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once had, you must do what you once did.