Quotes about Courage

Doamne, da-mi senitatea de a accepta lucrurile pe care nu le pot schimba, curajul de a schimba lucrurile pe care pot sa le schimb si intelepciunea de a sti sa le deosebesc.

Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).

As Socrates said when his wife first railed at him, and next threw a vessel of foul water upon him, "I thought when I heard the thunder, there would come rain

I guess prophets are those who do not care whether you are ready to hear their message. They say it because it has to be said and because it is true.

If your prayer is not enticing you outside your comfort zones, if your Christ is not an occasional "threat," you probably need to do some growing up and learning to love.

The most courageous thing we will ever do is to bear humbly the mystery of our own reality.

Am I willing to walk into the wilds of my interior life without knowing what I'll find?

Jesus puts healed people back on themselves, never creating any kind of dependency or codependency on him that will keep them from their own empowerment. All people must learn to draw from their own Implanted Spirit, which is the only thing that will help them in the long run anyway. Jesus gives them the courage to trust their own "inner Christ"—and not just its outer manifestation in himself. Go reread the Gospels and see if that is not true!

As my father, Saint Francis, put it, "If you have once faced the great death, the second death can do you no harm.

We are glad when someone survives, and that surely took some courage and effort. But what are you going to do with your now resurrected life? That is the heroic question.

We need to encounter the hero within and let him lead us on the adventure of our lives.