“The man whose little sermon is ‘repent’ sets himself against his age, and will for the time being be battered mercilessly by the age whose moral tone he challenges. There is but one end for such a man—‘off with his head!’ You had better not try to preach repentance until you have pledged your head to heaven”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 207 of 1106
“I encourage you to be a person who is not afraid of responsibility. In meeting resistance you will build your strength. If you only do what is easy, you will always remain weak.”
“Revenge tries to solve the problem of vulnerability. If I strike back, I transfer vulnerability from myself to the other. And yet by striking back I produce a world in which my vulnerability to injury is increased by the likelihood of another strike. So it seems as if I'm getting rid of my vulnerability and instead locating it with the other, but actually I'm heightening the vulnerability of everyone and I'm heightening the possibility of violence that happens between us.”
“Fasting will break poverty from your life.”
“It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people.”
“Only those who develop their minds and spirits to the utmost can serve Heaven and fulfill their own destinies.”
“True freedom is understanding that we have a choice in who and what we allow to have power over us.”
“Don't Make Assumptions. Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.”
“I used to enjoy all the white bands when I was a kid listening to the radio. But the record companies, they take music and label it - like, they say "rock". Because the white singers can't sound like James Brown, they call him "soul". They've been doing that for years. That's the prejudice crap.”
“Most people die from the remedy rather than from the illness.”
“Together we can do great things.”
“I cannot, if I am in the field of glory, be kept out of sight: wherever there is anything to be done, there Providence is sure to direct my steps.”
“In honour I gained them, and in honour I will die with them.”
“until the theologians and the ordained clergy begin to communicate with ordinary people in the vernacular, in a way that they can understand, I’m going to have to do this sort of thing.”
“Love begets courage, moderation creates abundance and humility generates power”
“I deny the resurrection every time I turn my back on the poor or become a cog in a system of injustice”
“However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.”
“From whence shall we expect the approach of danger? Shall some trans-Atlantic military giant step the earth and crush us at a blow? Never. All the armies of Europe and Asia...could not by force take a drink from the Ohio River or make a track on the Blue Ridge in the trial of a thousand years. No, if destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of free men we will live forever or die by suicide.”
“We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.”
“Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple.”