Quotes About Courage

Pino at that moment seemed to me like a portal into a long-ago world where the ghosts of war and courage, the demons of hatred and inhumanity, and the arias of faith and love still played out within the good and decent soul who'd survived to tell the tales.

You decide; then you act. You choose faith; then you walk through the door.

They shared a long silence. "What do we do, Father?" "We have faith, Pino. We have faith and continue to do what is right.

Let not your hearts be troubled,'" the cardinal of Milan said. "Those six words of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior, are more powerful than any bullet, cannon, or bomb. The people who hold these six words true are unafraid, and they are strong. 'Let not your hearts be troubled.' People who hold these words true will surely defeat tyrants and their armies of fear.

They were all fighting back, part of the growing resistance.

Let not your heart be troubled. Have faith

If a bomb's coming at you, it's coming at you. You can't go around worrying about it. Just go on doing what you love, and go on enjoying your life. Am I right?

For the eight thousand Italian Jews who could not be saved. For the millions taken slave by the Nazi war machine, and the countless who did not make it home. And for Robert Dehlendorf, who heard the tale first, and rescued me.

the trick to doing almost anything difficult was to act like someone else, someone who belonged.

Pino shook his head. Mimo was barely sixteen and yet a battle-hardened veteran.

Father Re put his hand on Pino's shoulder. "It sounds like too much to me, too, Pino, but I'm afraid it's not too much for God to ask of you.

To the end of homicidal dictators with weird black bangs and puny square mustaches!

Let not your heart be troubled,

Pino forced himself to stop. He could not let fear take control of his brain. Fear had no business here. He had to think, and he had to think clearly.

And with that, in the dark of the night as two thousand Jews lost their lives, Emil Martel's faith in a benevolent God, his belief in himself and in the common good of man, left him.

What do we do, Father?" "We have faith, Pino. We have faith and continue to do what is right.

But we can't stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we're frightened. If we lose love, all is lost.

Mark T. Sullivan

If a bomb's coming at you, it's coming at you. You can't go around worrying about it. Just go on doing what you love, and

The Nazis have killed priests helping Jews. They've pulled them right off the altar while they were saying Mass." "We have heard that, too," the priest said. "But we can't stop loving our fellow man, Pino, because we're frightened. If we lose love, all is lost. We just have to get smarter.

shallows, grabbed the bow rope, and held on for dear life. "Give me

Every human has that basic, God-given right, Pino, and you feared for your life.

I saved myself," Pino whispered. "He kind of came along for the ride.

It became a pattern over the course of the following weeks. Every few days, two, three, or sometimes four travelers would ring the bell at Casa Alpina. Pino would lead them out in the wee hours of the morning, climbing by what light the moon offered, and using the carbide miner's lamp only during cloud cover and the dark of the moon. On these trips, after handing over his charges to Bergstrom, he went to the shepherd's hut