courage on Fearlessness

God of mercy, deliver us from our fear in which we judge others. We pray for all who are oppressed, imprisoned, persecuted or rejected. To you who have delivered us from slavery we pray for the faith ...

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

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

Courage is Fear That has said its prayers.

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

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

Do not ask for fears to be removed; ask for courage equal to the fears.

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

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Many, many great things have begun with a single act of courage, throughout history and today. A person steps out and makes one courageous decision and that one domino starts many other dominoes falli...

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

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...

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong ...

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time.

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

The Gospels list some 125 Christ-issued imperatives. Of these, 21 urge us to “not be afraid” or “not fear” or “have courage” or “take heart” or “be of good cheer.” The second most common command, to l...

Eternal God, lead me now out of the familiar setting of my doubts and fears, beyond my pride and my need to be secure into a strange and graceful ease with my true proportions and with yours; ...

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

Pastor: Lord God, we thank You that You have taught us what You would have us believe and do. Help us by Your Holy Spirit, for the sake of Jesus Christ, to hold fast Your Word in our hearts.  You ha...

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

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

I’m convinced that if we have a God-sized, God-given courage, then we will be freed up to be the people of God, living out the mission of God, marked by the joy of God.

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

A fourteenth-century definition of courage is “to speak one’s mind by telling all of one’s heart.” Courage is connecting one’s heart back to one’s mind, stitching together the separated parts of ourse...

When you start showing up, you learn that some of the most beautiful things only happened because you found the courage to exit your own head and just do the next necessary thing.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Holy God, we are inspired by the boldness of people in the Bible, but we confess that we are often too afraid to be so bold. Our hearts are moved by the love and grace Jesus shared while he walked thi...

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can’t practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without co...

The church before Christendom was made up of individuals who had a courage that could not be quenched by the fires nor torn apart by the lions. It was made up of ordinary people who together unleashed...

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