Courage

"Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality."

-C.S. Lewis

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"Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones;

and when you have accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace. God is awake."

-Victor Hugo

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"There are no easy answers, but there are simple answers.

We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."

-Ronald Reagan

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"Untutored courage is useless in the face of educated bullets."

-George S. Patton

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"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."

-John F. Kennedy

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"Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong.

Let all that you do be done with love.

-1 Cor. 16:13, The Bible

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"Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how."

-Thomas Merton

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"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults,

or resolution enough to mend them."

-Benjamin Franklin

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"Courage is the price that life exacts for granting peace."

-Amelia Earhart

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"Have not I commanded you? Be strong, vigorous, and very courageous.

Be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."

-Joshua 1:9, The Bible

FAITH

"Faith doesn't deny a problem's existence.

It denies it a place of influence."

-Bill Johnson

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"Faith's most severe tests come not when we see nothing, but when we see a stunning array of evidence that seems to prove our faith in vain."

-Elisabeth Elliot

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"Faith, to be faith, must overcome its own impediment

and the uniqueness of faith consists in the fact that no believer has the luxury of choosing what his impediments will be."

-R.T. Kendall

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Faith when everything is going your way is not real faith. 

Only when our lives are falling apart do we have the chance to make it real.

-John Arnott

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"Roll on, blue waves of Galilee! Blow and moan, ye winds that rage, and ye tempests that blow. You laugh at my seeming helplessness. You ridicule my endeavors to stand in the midst of the rocking of the boat. You ask me where my faith is. You taunt me about my condition. 

My Faith is not far away! He sleeps awhile to teach me to rely upon Him. He sleeps, that confidence in self might be turned to trust in His promise and in the power of His presence. 

No, my Faith is not far away. I look at Him and smile; for His voice whispers to this poor heart of mine that if He can rest in the tempest and the storm, then I can sweetly rest in Him."

-Charles S. Price

PEACE

“Peace is more important than all justice; 
and peace was not made for the sake of justice, 
but justice for the sake of peace.”

-Martin Luther

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 "It isn't enough to talk about peace, one must believe it.
And it isn't enough to believe in it, one must work for it."

 - Eleanor Roosevelt

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"While you are proclaiming peace with your lips, be careful to have it even more fully in your heart."

- Francis of Assisi

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"For peace must be dared. It is itself the great venture, and can never be safe. 


Peace is the opposite of security. To demand guarantees is to mistrust, 
and this mistrust, in turn, brings forth war. To look for guarantees is to want to protect oneself. 


Peace means giving oneself completely to God's commandment, wanting no security, but in faith and obedience laying the destiny of the nations in the hand of Almighty God, not trying to direct it for selfish purposes. Battles are won, not with weapons, but with God. They are won when the way leads to the cross."


-Dietrich Bonhoeffer


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"How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace."

- Isaiah 52:7

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"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. 
There is no such thing."

-C.S. Lewis


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"If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."

-Mother Teresa

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"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God."

- Matthew 5:9