Courage

‘’I’m a Christian Lady’’ One February evening, Louise Degrafinried heard the rustling of leaves outside her secluded Tennessee home, and she cautiously peered out the window…

Some years earlier there was a man in Chicago called Easy Eddie. At that time, Al Capone virtually owned the city. Capone wasn’t famous for anything heroic. His exploits were anything but praiseworthy…

Trevelyan in his life of Garibaldi, the Italian patriot, tells of a young volunteer who, having come from a home of luxury, was asked why he stayed on the battlefield when he could return to a home of ease…

Sixty-year-old Foster Walker accidentally strolled onto the scene of a holdup at a store in Memphis, Tennessee. The gunman pointed a gun in his face and said, “Hand over your money or I’ll shoot.” Mr. Walker said, “Go right ahead and shoot…

World War II produced many heroes. One such man was Butch O’Hare. He was a fighter pilot assigned to an aircraft carrier in the South Pacific. One day his entire squadron was sent on a mission…

In the late stages of World War II, in the Pacific front, an amazing event took place. Captain Tony Simeral, an air force captain, related the events of the story. It had happened as they approached the enemy coast, Simeral recalled…

In 1835, exercising his right to speak and publish literature freely, Presbyterian minister Elijah Lovejoy defended and supported the “abolitionists for they rejected the view that black men and women were mere chattel.”…

Paul Gentuso was a budding evolutionist until he studied the human hand in medical school. “In anatomy class,” he said, “we dissected a human hand…

Wherever Christian gentlemen admire bravery and loyalty today, the story of Sir Robert Scott and his South Pole expedition will be told. Though it ended in tragedy, it left a thrill of glory…

In his little volume, Peace in the Valley, Vance Havner writes about his childhood: The story of my early years might well be called ‘Two Books and a Bay.’…

Most of our obstacles would melt away if, instead of cowering before them, we should make up our minds to walk boldly through them.

If we are going to be successful, we have got to take our stand for God, and let the world and everyone know we are on the Lord’s side…

On the night of a boy’s 13th birthday, after learning hunting, scouting, and fishing skills, he was put to one final test. He was placed in a dense forest to spend the entire night alone…

“Jamie, listen to me, this is what you need to do. Can you take this food to the man of God?…

Rosemaria Von Trapp, one of the famous “Sound of Music” children, has this to say about her famous parents, Baron Georg and Maria Von Trapp, who fled Nazi-occupied Austria instead of cooperating with the Nazis: Only yesterday I talked to high school…

More than a hundred gunshots had already ripped through the Wedgwood Baptist Church sanctuary when Jeremiah Neitz faced off with Larry Gene Ashbrook. Ashbrook pointed his hot Ruger 9-mm semiautomatic at Jeremiah. The 19-year-old pointed Ashbrook toward Jesus Christ…

Days immediately after Dunkirk were darkest days for the modern world. In supreme disaster, all seemed irrevocably lost and the invasion of England loomed as imminent. England lay prostrate. Forty-seven warships had been sunk in the operations off Norway after Dunkirk…

Jason Ellison, a 15 year-old who suffers from progeria, an extremely rare disease which greatly accelerates the aging pro- cess, wrote the following in a school essay: “When I look in the mirror, I see a person like no other around me…

By all indicators, the situation was hopeless. God’s people faced off with their enemy, the Philistines, across a valley…

She was a young wife with a strong faith. She kept herself very active in her church. Her husband, however, was an unbeliever. Patty tried her best to get him to believe but to no avail…

Desmond Doss was a medic in the army during World War II. He had two counts against him as far as his fellow soldiers were concerned. He was a Sabbath-keeper and a conscientious objector— he would not carry weapons…

A character in S. N. Behrman’s play No Time for Comedy says: “It’s all right to laugh under fire—that’s courage —but not sitting on the side lines—that’s callousness.”

I heard a story about two young men who came to New York City from the country on a visit. They went to the same boarding-house to stay and took a room together…

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you’re scared to death.

Birkenhead struck a sunken rock off the African coast. As well as the troops, there were 124 women and children on board, and there was only room for them in the lifeboats…

Once when a British destroyer was lying in a harbor in the West Indies a violent storm arose. The captain ordered his ship out to sea into the very teeth of the storm…

When the Soviet Union overran and annexed Latvia in 1840, the U.S. Vice Consul in Riga was concerned that the American Red cross supplies in that city would be looted…

Upon arrival he reported in and related the event surrounding his return. The film from the camera mounted on his plane told the tale . It showed the extent of Butch’s daring attempt to protect his fleet…

No one can answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.

Perfect courage means doing unwitnessed what we would be capable of with the world looking on. –François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims, 1678 no. 216

It was near the end of winter, and the lake was completely frozen. Two Indian hunters were on their way back home. Then suddenly, the ice where they walked broke apart. The older Indian immediately jumped to safety…

“You risked your life, but what else have you ever risked? Have you ever risked disapproval? Have you ever risked economic security? Have you ever risked a belief?…

The fear of man often makes us cowards. The fear of God makes the righteous as bold as a lion…

The army of Israel thought Goliath was too big to defeat; David thought he was too big to miss.

How vast is God’s universe? Pretend the earth were a grape or marble. In proportion, the sun would be the size of a beach ball and would be 163 yards away­ a little less than the length of two football fields…

“If we possessed an atlas of our galaxy that devoted but a single page to each star system in the Milky Way (so that the sun and all its planets were crammed in one page), that atlas would run to more than…

In his book, Bones of Contention, professor Marvin Lubenow tells the sad story of Sir Arthur Keith, one of the greatest anatomists of the twentieth century…

In his book The Youth Builder, Jim Burns talks about the importance of building up young people with affirmation and trust…

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear.

A story is told of Wendell Philips when he was a young man. He and a young friend had been sitting by the fire for a whole evening…

otherwise known as Piltdown Man. The vast majority of paleoanthropologists worldwide hailed this as a great discovery of our potential human ancestors. The literature produced on Piltdown man was enormous…

In his book, Not a Chance, R. C. Sproul, a scholar with degrees from the Free University of Amsterdam, Geneva College, and Grove City College who lectures widely on apologetics, wrote: For something to come from nothing it must, in effect, create…

A minister named Bob Cook once came to Harry Ironside, asking the famous Bible teacher how h.e should respond to criticisms leveled against him. Ironside’s advice: “Bob, if the criticism about you is true, mend your ways…

Benefits of. An unquiet mind makes but a slow recovery. Contentment is the best food to preserve a sound man, and the best medicine to restore a sick man…

Courage is armor A blind man wears; The calloused scar OF outlived despairs: Courage is Fear That has said its prayers.18 Witson 633-642

Everything you want is on the other side of fear.

I remember the story told by Florence Nightingale of a man in a hospital who had to undergo the operation of having his leg off without an anaesthetic. “You’ll try and be as brave as you can, my child,” she said…

Him, one of the dearest of all denied Him. He was ar- rested by the “stupid mechanical hands of foreign sol- diers.”’ Hear the words Shaw puts into the mouth of his Joan of Arc: “Yes, I am alone on earth…