Quotes About Courage

God isn't afraid of your sharp edges that may seem quite risky to others. He doesn't pull back. He pulls you close.

Let this unexpected happening point to your strength, not your weakness. Maybe you've been entrusted with this. Not cursed with it.

This is what it looks like to rise above the circumstances and determine to hold on to the greater good in the grand scheme of things: honoring God.

We must feel the pain to heal the pain. If we never allow ourselves to feel it, we won't acknowledge it's there.

The beliefs we hold should hold us up even when life feels like it's falling apart.

If we place our hope and future in the hands of our unchanging, unflinching God who never leaves us or forsakes us, we'll find healing and freedom. We'll be able to see something on the other side of all the pain. Something good. Something we know will be so wroth whatever it takes to get well. So instead of running from the pain, we embrace it as necessary. We must feel pain to heal the pain. If we never allow ourselves to feel it, we won't acknowledge it's there.

Don't buy into what the scale says or doesn't say. Trust the effort you are putting into getting healthy. And keep going! Not only are there changes going on in your body that you can't see, there are changes going on in your spirit—with your discipline, your courage, and your willpower. Keep going!

Moment by moment we have the choice to live in our own strength and risk failure or to reach across the gap and grab hold of God's unwavering strength.

There is no perfect decision—only the perfectly surrendered decision to press through our fears and know that God is working in us to bring about good through us. Let's state it

Comfort zones don't have to be comfortable--they're just familiar. It's where you feel like you belong. And, where you feel you belong is where you will stay.

It is possible to rise up, do battle with our issues, and, using the Lord's strength in us, defeat them —spiritually, physically, and mentally—to the glory of God.

From that cracked-open-heart place, a God-breathed strength will rise. Rise.

Puedo enfrentar las cosas que están fuera de mi control y no actuar fuera de control.

It's so much healthier to be brave enough to go your separate ways than to keep stuffing and drown in a sea of bitterness.

The more we really believe the truths God calls us to believe, the more we will take chances with God.

Hurting but still hoping—that is the human journey.

We can call it what it is and ask God to help us. I'm tired, God. What do I do? I'm lonely, God. What do I do? I'm mad, God. What do I do? I'm insecure, God. What do I do? I'm frustrated, God. What do I do? Outward expressions are internal indications.

As long as I suspect that honesty's intention is to expose me and hurt me, it will always feel like a dangerous thing.

The devil is viscous, but he's not victorious!

No matter what wrong thing has happened, there is a right next thing to do.

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I am made to rise up, do battle with my issues and, using the Lord's strength in me, defeat them — spiritually, physically, and mentally — to the glory of God.

Fear isn't something you can sweep up into a pile and discard. It isn't physical. It hovers and haunts us in the spiritual realm. It attacks us in the unseen.

Fear makes the gap between where I am and trusting God seem an impossible chasm.