Quotes About Courage

And the birds of prey descended on the carcasses, but Abram drove them away.

Lot went outside to meet them, shutting the door behind him.

But the men inside reached out, pulled Lot into the house with them, and shut the door.

Abimelech also asked Abraham, “What prompted you to do such a thing?”

Abraham replied, “I thought to myself, ëSurely there is no fear of God in this place. They will kill me on account of my wife.í

Get up, lift up the boy, and take him by the hand, for I will make him into a great nation.”

And God was with the boy, and he grew up and settled in the wilderness and became a great archer.

Then Abraham got up from beside his dead wife and said to the Hittites,

Then I asked my master, ëWhat if the woman will not come back with me?í

and she replies, ëDrink, and I will draw water for your camels as well,í may she be the woman the LORD has appointed for my masterís son.

They called Rebekah and asked her, “Will you go with this man?” “I will go,” she replied.

And when Rebekah looked up and saw Isaac, she got down from her camel

But when the men of that place asked about his wife, he said, “She is my sister.” For he was afraid to say, “She is my wife,” since he thought to himself, “The men of this place will kill me on account of Rebekah, because she is so beautiful.”

When Isaac had been there a long time, Abimelech king of the Philistines looked down from the window and was surprised to see Isaac caressing his wife Rebekah.

Abimelech sent for Isaac and said, “So she is really your wife! How could you say, ëShe is my sisterí?” Isaac replied, “Because I thought I might die on account of her.”

Then Jacob got up and put his children and his wives on camels,

So he fled with all his possessions, crossed the Euphrates, and headed for the hill country of Gilead.

He thought, “If Esau comes and attacks one camp, then the other camp can escape.”

Please deliver me from the hand of my brother Esau, for I am afraid that he may come and attack me and the mothers and children with me.

They killed Hamor and his son Shechem with their swords, took Dinah out of Shechemís house, and went away.

During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”

When Reuben heard this, he tried to rescue Joseph from their hands. “Let us not take his life,” he said.

and they took him and threw him into the pit. Now the pit was empty, with no water in it.

and after some time his masterís wife cast her eyes upon Joseph and said, “Sleep with me.”