"The Ladder"
Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
Clare Boothe Luce
"How Strong?"The measure of power is obstacles overcome.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"Why Evil Triumphs"
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
Edmund Burke
"Take A Risk"
I have been assuming that the power and the motive behind taking risks for the cause of God is not heroism,
or the lust for adventure,
or the courage of self-reliance,
or the need to earn God's good will,
but rather faith in the all-providing, all-ruling, all-satisfying Son of God, Jesus Christ.
The strength to risk losing face for the sake of Christ is the faith that God's love will lift up your face in the end and vindicate your cause....
In this way risk reflects God's value, not our valor...
Every loss we risk in order to make much of Christ, God promises to restore a thousandfold with his all-satisfying fellowship.
John Piper
"Security Is Mostly Superstition"
Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller
"Like The Beaches of Normandy"
The rule for overcoming fear is to head right into it.
Anonymous
"Go The Distance"
Half measures can kill when on the brink of precipices...we cannot jump halfway across.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Yevgeny Yevtushenko
"Deal With It"
All too frequently a problem evaded is a crisis invited.
Henry A. Kissinger
"Be Dead Center"
If you are walking in God’s ways, and things get messy, cheer up—you are on the verge of something wonderful. If you are walking in rebellion against God, and things are going great, heads up—you are on the verge of disaster. Of course, God in His mercy may turn your disaster into a day of salvation. But for myself, I prefer to endure the mess when I know I am dead center in the will of God.
What is the mess you are in right now? Hold on to God and be patient. The faithful servant can have confidence that things are going to turn out. Just look at Paul’s confidence: “I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance” (1:19).” How it all turns out is what’s important.
Andree Seu
What is the mess you are in right now? Hold on to God and be patient. The faithful servant can have confidence that things are going to turn out. Just look at Paul’s confidence: “I know that through your prayers and the help of the Spirit of Jesus Christ this will turn out for my deliverance” (1:19).” How it all turns out is what’s important.
Andree Seu
"Blessed Are The Vertebrates"
Better to strengthen your back than to lighten your burden.
Anonymous
"Truly Brave"
The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do.
Lord Byron
"Sail On, Sailor"
If the highest aim of a captain were to preserve his ship, he would keep it in port forever.
St. Thomas Aquinas
"When Possible. Deal"
Better to deal with a problem than to cope with it.
Raymond P. Brunk
"Instead Imagine Conquering"
Cowardice...is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest Hemingway
"Courageous Trepidation"
The brave man is the man who faces or fears the right thing for the right purpose in the right manner at the right moment.
Aristotle
"On The Worst Day Of Your Life"
Keep Calm. Carry On
Winston Churchill
"How To Conquer Fear"
I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experiences behind him.
Eleanor Roosevelt
"Hang Tight"
Heroism is endurance for one moment more.
Unknown
"Valient Efforts"
There are fights which should be made even if a loss is certain.
Frank Tollman
"The Sword of Peace"Frank Tollman
O God, you gave us the grace
to carry the sword of your kingdom of peace;
and you made us messengers of peace
in a world of strife,
and messengers of strife
in a world of false peace:
make strong our hand,
make clear our voice,
give us humility with firmness
and insight with passion,
that we may fight,
not to conquer,
but to redeem.
Gregory Vlastos
and you made us messengers of peace
in a world of strife,
and messengers of strife
in a world of false peace:
make strong our hand,
make clear our voice,
give us humility with firmness
and insight with passion,
that we may fight,
not to conquer,
but to redeem.
Gregory Vlastos
"Bold As A Lion"
In crisis boldness is the safest course. Hesitation encourages the adversary to persevere, maybe even to raise the ante.
Henry A. Kissinger
"Fear Requires Permission"
Your fears can be overcome if you deal with them properly. Emotions come wholly from within, and have only the strength we allow them.
John Wilson
"Run With Horses. With God All Is Possible"
'If you have raced with men on foot, and they have wearied you, how will you compete with horses?' (Jeremiah 12:5)
...The immediate residue...was a great soberness that came over me, a sudden shame and distaste for all the worthless kinds of joking I do, the petty things that seem so hard to forgive. The Lord’s words in Jeremiah are a heads-up to get more serious about life, to prepare myself for the days ahead. We prepare by living up to what we already know—the simple, garden-variety obediences of forgiving and generosity and being patient and saying no to ungodly passions.
I commented to a mature Christian friend of mine that he was brave for Christ. He told me that he looks at it this way: If we truly believe and embrace the fact that we are called to even die for Christ, then the little acts that fall short of dying are not such a big deal.
And like Jesus said, if we cannot be trusted with small things, who will trust us with the real riches (Luke 16:11)—such as the privilege of persecution for His name? And if we do not stand firm in our faith in a day of relative ease, how will we stand at all when the fiery testing comes (Isaiah 7:9)?
The signs all around us are worrisome. I wonder what kind of world my grandson will grow up in. I hope he will be ready to run with horses.
Andree Seu
"Through The Stormy Setbacks"
A great pilot can sail even if his canvas is rent.
Seneca The Younger
"Courage Expands Life"
Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.
Anais Nin
Anais Nin
"Familiarity = Confidence"
A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Risk For The Cause"
But not even Joshua could explode the myth of safety. The
people were drunk in a dream world of security. And they tried
to stone Caleb and Joshua. The result was thousands of wasted
lives and wasted years. It was clearly wrong not to take the risk
of battling the giants in the land of Canaan. Oh, how much is
wasted when we do not risk for the cause of God!...I have been assuming that the power and the motive behind
taking risks for the cause of God is not heroism, or the lust for
adventure, or the courage of self-reliance, or the need to earn
God’s good will, but rather faith in the all-providing, all-ruling,
all-satisfying Son of God, Jesus Christ. The strength to risk losing
face for the sake of Christ is the faith that God’s love will lift
up your face in the end and vindicate your cause...In this
way risk reflects God’s value, not our valor...Every loss we risk
in order to make much of Christ, God promises to restore a thousandfold
with his all-satisfying fellowship.
John Piper
"Find Your Voice"
Common experience shows how much rarer is moral courage than physical bravery. A Thousand men will march to the mouth of the cannon where one man will dare espouse an unpopular case.
Clarence Dorrow
“Who does nothing?”
Conditions are never just right. People who delay action until all factors are favorable are the kind who do nothing.
William Feather
"It's Still About Territory"
In the New Testament, by the way, it is still all about Land. God’s zeal for expansion is not diminished. The concerns and promises of the Old Testament are spiritualized in the New. Woe to us if we think the days of territorial conquest are now over: The glory of God must cover the earth like the waters cover the sea. The sword is the gospel, the warrior are you and I.
The territory is also supposed to be passed down generationally today as before. Gains made for the kingdom must not be allowed to revert to the enemy camp. Yale was once a training center for revivalists. Now it is a launching pad from which to mock them.
Andree Seu
“Choose Your Battles”
Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win.
Jonathan Kozol
"Thank You, Valiant Ones"
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Let us make no mistake. All that we fear from all the kinds of adversity, severally, is collected together in the life of a soldier on active service. Like sickness, it threatens pain and death. Like poverty, it threatens ill lodging, cold, heat, thirst, and hunger. Like slavery, it threatens toil, humiliation, injustice, and arbitrary rule. Like exile, it separates you form all you love. Like the gallies, it imprisons you at close quarters with uncongenial companions. It threatens every temporal evil--every evil except dishonor and final perdition, and those who bear it like it no better than you would like it.
On the other side, though it may not be your fault, it is certainly a fact that Pacifism threatens you with almost nothing. Some public opprobrium, yes, from people whose opinion you discount and whose society you do not frequent, soon recompensed by the warm mutual approval which exists, inevitably, in any minority group. For the rest it offers you a continuance of the life you know and love, among the people and in the surroundings you know and love. It offers you time to lay the foundations of a career; for whether you will or no, you can hardly help getting the jobs for which the discharged soldiers will one day look in vain. You do not even have to fear, as Pacifists may have had to fear in the last war, that public opinion will punish you when the peace comes. For we have learned now that through the world is slow to forgive, it is quick to forget.
C.S. Lewis
"Go In"
Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrive, stop thinking and go in.
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson
"I Will Rise"
I am hurt but I am not slain! I will lie me down and bleed awhile—then I'll rise and fight again.
St. Barton's Ode.
"Falter Not"
When the morning's freshness has been replaced by the weariness of midday, when the leg muscles quiver under the strain, the climb seems endless, and, suddenly, nothing will go quite as you wish—it is then that you must not hesitate.
Dag Hammarskjold
"Liberated"
Resolve, and thou art free.
Henry Wadsworth Long fellow
"Appalling
Silence"
We
shall have to repent in this generation
not merely for the vitriolic words
and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good
people.
Martin
Luther King, Jr.
"Bellow
The Truth"
He
who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the
accomplice of liars and forgers.
Charles
Peguy
"Discovering
What You're Made Of"
He
knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Ben
Jonson
"Need
Validation?"
The
more you love your decisions, the less you will need others to love them.
Unknown
"Walk
Through To The Other Side"
On
the other side of fear lies freedom.
Unknown
"Heavy
Fire?"
God
gives His hardest battle to His toughest soldiers.
Unknown