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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...

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards.

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 one vice of which no man in the world is free; which every one in the world loathes when he sees it in someone else; and of which hardly any people, except Christians, ever imagine that they ...

Today I come to that part of Christian morals where they differ most sharply from all other morals. There is one vice of which no man in the world is free; which everyone loathes when he sees it in so...

Despair gives courage to a coward.

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...

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

Courage is Fear That has said its prayers.

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

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.

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...

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

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

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...

Silence is evil's closest ally.

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

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

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

Since it is so likely that children will meet cruel enemies let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter, but darker.

Everyday courage has few witnesses. But yours is no less noble because no drum beats for you and no crowds shout your name.

Men feel that cruelty to the poor is a kind of cruelty to animals. They never feel that it is an injustice to equals; nay it is treachery to comrades.

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

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

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

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

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

In his book On Combat, Lieutenant Dave Grossman talks about people being in one of three categories on a bell-shaped curve: wolves, sheep, or sheepdogs. Most people fall into the category of being she...

The way we are living, timorous or bold, will have been our life.

In a story circulated among an ancient monastic community, a vicious warlord intimidated whole villages, sending it’s entire population into the hills to hide in caves, waiting for the ruler to move o...