Quotes about Courage

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

How can you change the world? The answer: find seven women, turn them loose, and watch Satan tremble in their presence."

He... said a short prayer and then climbed the steps to the gallows, brave and composed. His death ensued after a few seconds. In the almost fifty years that I worked as a doctor, I have hardly ever seen a man die so entirely submissive to the will of God.

So what is "heart"? It's courage, but courage to do what? The courage to do the right thing when all else tells you not to do it. The courage to rise above your surroundings and circumstances. The courage to be God's idea of a real man and to give of yourself for others when it costs you to do so and when everything tells you to look out for yourself first.

The line between courageous faith and foolish idealism is, almost by definition, one angstrom wide.

Do the right thing, seek the truth, defend the weak, live courageous lives.

Take all we have, only give us peace'? In God's name…let us at least make one effort; and if we must fall, let us fall like men!

The German Christians had convinced themselves that "evangelizing" Germany was worth any price, including eviscerating the gospel by preaching hatred against the Jews. But Bonhoeffer knew that twisting the truth to sell it more effectively was not confined to the German Christians. Members of the Confessing Church had also shaved the truth betimes.

As long as we let the word be our only armor we can look confidently into the future.

We pretend we would have spoken out for the Jews in Bonhoeffer's day, or that we would have spoken against the slave trade in Wilberforce's day, but are we speaking out today on the issues that are no less important to God in our time? If not, we are deceiving ourselves.

In those days," Ruth-Alice recalled, "the Nazis were always marching and saying, 'The future belongs to us! We are the future!' And we young ones who were against Hitler and the Nazis would hear this and we wondered, 'Where is our future?' But there in Finkenwalde, when I heard this man preaching, who had been captured by God, I thought: 'Here. Here is our future.