Quotes about Courage

The Inspiration of Spiritual Initiative

God does not give us overcoming life—He gives us life as we overcome.

be of good cheer, I have overcome the world" (16:33). Unyielding spiritual fortitude is what we need.

Beware of lazily giving up. Instead, put up a glorious fight and you will find yourself empowered with His strength.

The remarkable thing about God is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

Don't fear your weaknesses—God supplies all the strength you need. Be afraid of those moments when you think you're independently strong.

You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy. He comes to you in mercy not because you are good but because you are a sinner, and he knows that because of this condition, you are unable to help yourself.

Psalm 27 tells that even in the middle of difficulties that we do not understand nor seem able to escape, we have reason to take heart and have hope.

You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy.

even though there is very little that we know for sure about our lives and we experience constant surprises along the way, we need not give way to panic.

You and I can face the harsh realities of life in this broken world with courage and hope because we do not face them all by ourselves. Immanuel ("God with us") is indeed with us in power, glory, and grace.

When you don't know your Bible well, you will tend to use it as an isolated collection of wisdom statements for daily living, and you will tend to look for the verse that best seems to fit the situation you are discussing. This method completely misses the genius of the Bible's grand redemptive themes that form the basis of the hope and courage of the brand-new way of living to which God has called us.