Quotes on Courage & Strength

Christian quotes on Courage & Strength — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

Corrie ten Boom

The strongest faith isn't a faith that never doubts. Rather, it's a faith that grows through doubts.

Craig Groeschel

Every time I say, "Jesus, I'm not capable...", He says, "So what? I am capable."

Hans Peter Royer

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid.

Frederick Buechner

May I be the thinking heart of this barrack. I would like to be it again. I would like to be the thinking heart of an entire concentration camp.

Etty Hillesum

We must build dikes of courage against the flood of fear.

Martin Luther King Jr.

And though the world were full of devils and wanted to devour us whole, we would not be so afraid, we shall still prevail.

Martin Luther

Outside the will of God, There's nothing I want. Inside the will of God there's nothing I fear.

A.W. Tozer

The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

And Satan trembles when he sees, the weakest saint upon his knees.

William Cowper

There are three stages in the work of God: Impossible; Difficult; Done.

Hudson Taylor

He who dares loses his footing for a moment; he who does not dare loses himself.

Søren Kierkegaard

God gives us in every time of need as much strength of resistance as we need – but not in advance.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Do not be sad. God helps me so wonderfully and palpably up to now.

Alfred Delp

The world is more than its burden, and life is more than the sum of its gray days.

Alfred Delp

Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me! Amen.

Martin Luther

Where would we end up // if everyone said // where would we end up // and no one went // to see for once // where one would end up // if one went.

Kurt Marti

Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.

Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King Jr.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

William Shakespeare

The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable.

Paul Tillich

Courage comes from a heart that is CONVINCED it is loved.

Beth Moore

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

Thomas Merton

Remember this: God isn’t scared of what you’re scared of. But you don’t have to pretend like you’re not frightened. Naming your fear is part of getting through it.

Levi Lusko

If God sends us on stony paths, he gives us strong shoes.

Corrie ten Boom

I ask you, Lord, for the great strength to endure this small day, to take one small step further on the great road to you.

Ernst Ginsberg

Of course I should have been dead long ago; but God disagrees.

Johnny Cash

Faith means breaking through the impossible. It walks into the sea as if there were no water, into death as if there were no death.

Martin Luther

When our days are darkened and our nights darker than a thousand midnights, let us always remember that there is a great, blessing power in the world called God.

Martin Luther King Jr.

In the midst of my greatest failure, I discovered God in his greatest power.

Gordon MacDonald

One must always find one's way through the small thoughts that annoy us, back to the great thoughts that strengthen us.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I confess I sometimes feel a bit anxious when I think of the last journey, but my Savior is at the helm.

Friedrich von Bodelschwingh

Hold fast to God. Do as the bird does, which does not stop singing even when the branch breaks. For it knows it has wings!

John Bosco

Sometimes God calms the storm, but sometimes God lets the storm rage and calms his child.

Hans Peter Royer

If God is for you, how can you be against yourself?

Hans-Joachim Eckstein

The light must be broken in people who are themselves broken, so that it does not blind but shines.

Magnus Malm

Yes, wherever even a tiny mustard seed of faith is found in a heart, one may be certain: the Savior sees it and tends it.

Ludwig Hofacker

God demands nothing of people without also giving them the strength for it.

Edith Stein

Faith is a refusal to panic.

Martyn Lloyd-Jones

People quoted here

Corrie ten Boom, Craig Groeschel, Hans Peter Royer, Frederick Buechner, Etty Hillesum, Martin Luther King Jr., Martin Luther, A.W. Tozer, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, William Cowper, Hudson Taylor, Søren Kierkegaard

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