Quotes about Courage

I need a place to let go and fall back from my familiar patterns and trust God to catch me.

Rather than being quick to settle on final answers to puzzling questions, a trust-centered faith will find time to formulate wise questions that respect the mystery of God and call upon God for the courage to sit in those questions for as long as necessary before seeking a way forward.

In the spiritual life, the opposite of fear is not courage, but trust.

The way forward is to let go of that need to find the answers we crave and decide to continue along a path of faith anyway (as Qohelet would say). That kind of faith is not a crutch, but radical trust.

Doubt is sacred. Doubt is God's instrument, will arrive in God's time, and will come from unexpected places—places out of your control. And when it does, resist the fight-or-flight impulse. Pass through it—patiently, honestly, and courageously for however long it takes. True transformation takes time.

And either way, God is with you.

It is mercy, not justice or courage or even heroism, that alone can defeat evil.

Then the LORD said to Abram, “Leave your country, your kindred, and your father’s household, and go to the land I will show you.

After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”

and that night the LORD appeared to him and said, “I am the God of your father Abraham. Do not be afraid, for I am with you. I will bless you and multiply your descendants for the sake of My servant Abraham.”

During her severe labor, the midwife said to her, “Do not be afraid, for you are having another son.”

When he heard me scream for help, he left his cloak beside me and ran out of the house.”