Quotes About Courage

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

Once upon a time, there was a safe, private place to take your controversial stand for Jesus. No more. If you are going to stand, you will be shot at—either figuratively or literally.

Therefore, one of God's purposes in the coronavirus is that his people put to death self-pity and fear, and give themselves to good deeds in the presence of danger. Christians lean toward need, not comfort. Toward love, not safety. That's what our Savior is like. That is what he died for.

Only the gospel can do two seemingly contradictory things: destroy pride and increase courage. Destroy self-exaltation and increase confidence. Destroy the pushiness of self-assertion and deliver from the paralysis of self-doubt.

Te urjo pues, en el nombre de Jesús, a despertar y agrandar tu corazón, expandir tu mente y extender tus alas.

I spoke the hardest words and almost broke: 'There is another kinsman still More close to you than I. He will Be given legal right to take You if he will. Tomorrow make Your prayer, and I will settle this With elder in the gate.' No kiss That night. But when she left, still dark, She took my hand and drew and arc And said, 'The God of Exodus And flood at dawn will fight for us.' That was our only touch.

The coronavirus is God's call to his people to overcome self-pity and fear, and with courageous joy, to do the good works of love that glorify God.

God has revealed his purposeful sovereignty over good and evil in order to humble human pride, intensify human worship, shatter human hopelessness, and put ballast in the battered boat of human faith, steel in the spine of human courage, gladness in the groans of affliction, and love in the heart that sees no way forward.

The spirit of Jesus, when he set his face like flint to go to Jerusalem, runs through the generations of all his most inspiring followers.

Fear not. Whether you live or die, you will be with me. And in the meantime, while you live, nothing will happen to you—nothing!—that I do not appoint. If I decide, you will live. If I decide, you will die. And until you die at my decision, I will decide if you do this or that. Get to work." This is my Rock—for today, tomorrow, and eternity.

And, Father, most of all, you taught Me there's a Pow'r in love that naught Can thwart, and that it moves where truth And courage speak, and neither youth Nor age can hinder its success, But only fear and quietness.

Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone.

Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone.

Try and fail,but don't fail to try.

Though it cost the blood of millions of white men, let it come. Let justice be done.

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.

Thus situated, the perilous experiment must be made. Let me make it with full deliberations, and be prepared for the consequences.

I ask not for wealth, or fame or long life, only that I may have the strength and courage to get to my objective and hit it, and hit it, and hit it.

Bravery and devotion to duty hath no greater reward than to see the cat get into trouble.

One riot, one cowdog.

My idea of being a nice dog stops short of getting murdered for it.