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Billy Graham is one of my great lifetime heroes. I think he epitomizes the essence of what a Christian leader should be. I have participated in some of his crusades a couple of times in Atlanta. I've seen the profound impact he's had on me personally, and on other people who were not Christians and accepted Christ as Savior.
— Jimmy Carter
Do not let the hero in your soul parish, in lonely frustration, for the life you deserved but never have been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
— Ayn Rand
A real man's gotta be a hero to his wife before he can be a hero to anybody else- or he ain't a real man.
— Eric Wilson
I think, in the grand epic, Jesus is the hero of our stories. And our stories, as they were, are subplots in a grand epic and our job is not to be the hero of any story. Our job is to be a saint in a story that he is telling.
— Donald Miller
The realm of the unseen holds your secret hero identity. Being a hero is an act of worship. Heroes
— Lisa Bevere
It is not society which is to guide and save the creative hero, but precisely the reverse.
— Joseph Campbell
Every true Christian is a soldier - of Christ - a hero 'par excellence'! Braver than the bravest - scorning the soft seductions of peace and her oft-repeated warnings against hardship, disease, danger, and death, whom he counts among his bosom friends.
— CT Studd
This sectarianism is an attempt to leap away from the narrow path of the paradox and become a tragic hero at a cheap price. The tragic hero expresses the universal and sacrifices himself for it. The sectarian punchinello, instead of that, has a private theatre, i.e. several good friends and comrades who represent the universal
— Soren Kierkegaard
No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.
— Frank Herbert
The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
tragic elements in present history are not as significant as the ironic ones. Pure tragedy elicits tears of admiration and pity for the hero who is willing to brave death or incur guilt for the sake of some great good. Irony however prompts some laughter and a nod of comprehension beyond the laughter; for irony involves comic absurdities which cease to be altogether absurd when fully understood.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
We need to encounter the hero within and let him lead us on the adventure of our lives.
— Fr. Richard Rohr