"Action springs not from thought, but from a readiness for responsibility."

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German Lutheran theologian


"Courage is the greatest of all the virtues. Because if you haven't courage, you may not 
have an opportunity to use any of the others."

Samuel Johnson

"When principles that run against your deepest convictions begin to win the day, then battle is your calling, and peace has become sin; you must, at the price of dearest peace, lay your convictions bare before friend and enemy, with all the fire of your faith."

Abraham Kuyper


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

C.S. Lewis


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

Mark Twain 


"Great occasions do not make heroes or cowards; they simply unveil them to the eyes of men. Silently and imperceptibly, as we wake or sleep, we grow strong or weak; and at last some crisis shows what we have become."

Brooke Foss Westcott 


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