Quotes about Courage

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected and handed on for them to do the same.

I hope when you are my age, you'll be able to say - as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom. Our lives were a statement, not an apology.

Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.

In fact one is tempted to ask whether there is a single man left ready, for once, to commit an outrageous folly.

People had not so much as the courage and honesty and truth to say to God bluntly, That I cannot agree to, they resorted to hypocrisy and thought they were perfectly secure. pp 168-6

For my part I can in a way understand Abraham, but at the same time I apprehend that I have not the courage to speak, and still less to act as he did — but by this I do not by any means intend to say that what he did was insignificant, for on the contrary it is the one only marvel.

Only in much fear and trembling is a human being able to speak with God, in much fear and trembling

Rouse thee, my fainting soul, and play the man; And through such waning span of life and thought as still has to be trod, Prepare to meet thy God. And while the storm of that bewilderment Is for a season spent, And, ere afresh the ruin on me fall, Use well the interval.

And I take with joy whatever now besets me, pain or fear, and with a strong will I sever all the ties which bind me here.

Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength.

Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength.

Don't pray for an easy life, pray to be a stronger man.