Quotes about Courage

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.

Falling upward is a "secret" of the soul, known not by thinking about it or proving it but only by risking it—at least once.

Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.

Great saints are both courageous and creative; they are "yes, and" or non-dual thinkers who never get trapped in the small world of "either-or" except in the ways of love and courage, where they are indeed all or nothing.

First half of life folks will seldom have the courage to go forward at this point unless they have a guide, a friend, a Virgil, a Tiresias, a Beatrice, a soul friend or a stumbling block to guide them toward the goal. There are few in our religious culture who understand the necessity of mature, internalized conscience so wise guides are hard to find. You will have many more Aarons building you golden calves than Moses' leading you on any exodus.

Yearning for a new way will not produce it. Only ending the old way can do that.