Quotes about Courage

Persecution is designed to make you run away from the Word (Matthew 13:21). Strong believers will run to the Word and not from the Word in times of attack.

Strong believers will run to the Word and not from the Word in times of attack.

If God is with you, who can be against you?

Blessed is he who is skilled with the sword. It will keep him from falling.

What if the call to pray is a call to bleed as well as to receive blessing?

Doubt is God's instrument, will arrive in God's time, and will come from unexpected places—places out of your control. And when it does, resist the fight-or-flight impulse. Pass through it—patiently, honestly, and courageously for however long it takes. True transformation takes time.

I need a place to let go and fall back from my familiar patterns and trust God to catch me.

Rather than being quick to settle on final answers to puzzling questions, a trust-centered faith will find time to formulate wise questions that respect the mystery of God and call upon God for the courage to sit in those questions for as long as necessary before seeking a way forward.

In the spiritual life, the opposite of fear is not courage, but trust.

The way forward is to let go of that need to find the answers we crave and decide to continue along a path of faith anyway (as Qohelet would say). That kind of faith is not a crutch, but radical trust.

Doubt is sacred. Doubt is God's instrument, will arrive in God's time, and will come from unexpected places—places out of your control. And when it does, resist the fight-or-flight impulse. Pass through it—patiently, honestly, and courageously for however long it takes. True transformation takes time.

And either way, God is with you.