QUOTATION: Be Brave

Start being brave about everything, driving out darkness and spreading light as well. Don’t look at your weakness, but realize that in Christ crucified you can do everything.

--St. Catherine of Siena

QUOTATION: Not Feeling Brave

You needn't worry about not feeling brave. Our Lord didn't--see the scene in Gethsemane. How thankful I am that when God became man He did not choose to become a man of iron nerves; that would not have helped weaklings like you and me nearly so much.

--C.S. Lewis, Letters of C.S. Lewis

QUOTATION: Hope

Hope has two beautiful daughters: their names are anger and courage. Anger that things are the way they are. Courage to make them the way they ought to be.

--St. Augustine

QUOTATION: Spiritual Courage

To acquire courage it is very useful to read the lives of the saints, especially of those who, after living in sin, attained great sanctity.

--St. Alphonsus Liguori

QUOTATION: Courage

Courage does not consist in calculation, but in fighting against chances.

--Blessed John Henry Newman