Made for spirituality, we wallow in introspection. Made for joy, we settle for pleasure. Made for justice, we clamor for vengeance. Made for relationships, we insist on our own way. Made for beauty, we are satisfied with sentiment. But new creation has already begun. The sun has begun to rise. Christians are called to leave behind, in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world. It is time, in the power of the Spirit, to take up our proper role, our fully human role, as agents, heralds, and stewards of the new day that is dawning. That, quite simply, is what it means to be Christian: to follow Jesus Christ into the new world, God's new world, which he has thrown open before us.
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“Courage is not a particular virtue, but rather all of the virtues when tested. It stands to reason that cowardice, then, is not simply one vice, but rather a failure of all of the virtues when put to the test.” – C. S. Lewis (paraphrased)
“Men do not follow titles, they follow courage.” – William Wallace
"Your fingers would remember their strength better if they grasped your sword." -- Gandalf
“Without courage, all other virtues lose their meaning.” - Winston Churchill
"There is not really any courage at all in attacking hoary or antiquated things, any more than offering to fight one's grandmother. The really courageous man is he who defies tyrannies young as the morning and superstitions fresh as the first flowers." -- G K Chesterton
“A scared world needs a fearless church.” -- A.W. Tozer
“Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. A man must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water, yet drink death like wine.” – G. K. Chesterton
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." – Anias Nin
"Since it is so likely our children will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard stories of brave knights and heroic courage." – C. S. Lewis
"Courage is fear that has said its prayers." -- Unknown
"If only we had stood together against the common threat, we could easily have defeated it. So, why didn’t we? We didn’t love freedom enough. We hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward....A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West in our day….Should one point out that from ancient times decline in courage has been considered the beginning of the end?" -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"as for him who lacks the courage to defend even his own soul: Let him not brag of his progressive views, boast of his status as an academician or a recognized artist, a distinguished citizen or gAneral. Let him say to himself plainly: I am cattle, I am a coward, I seek only warmth and to eat my fill....If only we had stood together against the common threat, we could easily have defeated it. So, why didn’t we? We didn’t love freedom enough. We hurried to submit. We submitted with pleasure! We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward." -- Alexander Solzhentisyn
"Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened." – Billy Graham
“Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.” -- John Wayne
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"Christianity, and nothing else, is the ultimate foundation of liberty, conscience, human rights, and democracy, the benchmarks of western civilization. To this day, we have no other options [besides Christianity]. We continue to nourish ourselves from this source. Everything else is postmodern chatter."
--- Jurgen Habermas, a German philosopher/theologian
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From N. T. Wright: