Quotes about Courage

We must be willing to encounter darkness and despair when they come up and face them, over and over again if need be, without running away or numbing ourselves in the thousands of ways we conjure up to avoid the unavoidable.

God must be trusted out of sight, i.e., when we cannot see which way it is possible for him to fulfil his word; everything but God's mere word makes it look unlikely, so that if persons believe, they must hope against hope. Thus the ancient Patriarchs, and Job, and the Psalmist, and Jeremiah, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshech, and Abednego, and the Apostle Paul, gave glory to God by trusting in God in darkness

No, rather let me die this moment, than be left to bring dishonour on God's holy name.—I

You must be willing for ever to leave all the ease, and pleasure, and profit of sin, to forsake all for salvation, as Lot forsook all, and left all he had, to escape out of Sodom.

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!