Thursday, July 02, 2009

Courage

I started upon an interesting conversation tonight on the theme of courage. Many great people have said many great things on the subject and yet it is not something I hear much of today. This is something I want to investigate further.

A little something to whet the appetite:

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

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten. - John F. Kennedy

Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. - Winston Churchill

1 comment:

David Hynes said...

A teacher named Eric Johnson said, (paraphrased), "Courage is not an absence of fear, but an awareness of the truth."

Of course, there are a lot of truths you could latch on to, but the context involved your identity in Christ, and the character of the Father that we serve and love.