christian living on Cowardice

We may be content to remain what we call 'ordinary people': but He is determined to carry out a quite different plan. To shrink back from that plan is not humility; it is laziness and cowardic...

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

God has a long track record of calling people the world thinks are lightweights, cowards, or no good and making them great in his service. Who else but God called Gideon to lead the fight against the ...

There is a story about a farmer who had a few animals he kept in a barn that had gotten old, drafty, and leaky. Concerned for his animals' well-being, the farmer decided to build a new barn. He bu...

I am still haunted by a long conversation I had with a man who was a member of one of my early congregations. . . . He had a stunning vision of the presence of the risen Christ . . . [and] had never t...

O Merciful God, who came in Jesus Christ with saving power to a world that walked in darkness and in the shadow of death, we praise and bless you for all those your servants who helped prepare the way...

Courage is a virtue only so far as it is directed by prudence.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

Courage is Fear That has said its prayers.

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty.

Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intellige...

Take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to li...

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

The virtue of courage is about the fear of dangers of death.

Silence is evil's closest ally.

Courage is putting one foot in front of the other when all you can see is a faint outline of the future.

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothi...

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.

Courage is like—it’s a habitus, a habit, a virtue: You get it by courageous acts. It’s like you learn to swim by swimming. You learn courage by couraging.

Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. Af...