“…The dark barrier called fear may be high and imposing, but it is often exceedingly thin. It appears again and again throughout our lives. Sometimes a touch breaks through it; sometimes, in the desperate need of the moment, we must put our shoulder to it like a fireman breaking down a door. And sometimes our very yearning makes it fall.”
--Ralph Kinney Bennett
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”
--Nathaniel Hawthorne
With thoughtless and impatient hands
We tangle up the plans
The Lord hath wrought.
And when we cry in pain He saith,
“Be quiet, man, while I untie the knot.”
--Author Unknown
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important.”
--The Princess Diaries
“Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once.”
--William Shakespeare"Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
--William Shakespeare
“Courage is not limited to the battlefield…The real tests of courage are much quieter. They are the inner tests like remaining faithful when nobody’s looking, like enduring pain when the room is empty, like standing alone when you’re misunderstood.”
--Charles Swindoll
“When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen; there will be something solid to stand on, or you will be taught to fly.”
--Patrick Overton
“God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain, but without stain.”
--C.S. Lewis
The heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight,
But they, while their companions slept
Were toiling upward in the night.
--Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.”
--Helen Keller
THE WORLD IS MINE
Today upon a bus, I saw a lovely maid with golden hair;
I envied her—she seemed so gay—and I wished I were as fair.
When suddenly she rose to leave, I saw her hobble down the aisle;
She had one foot and wore a crutch, but as she passed, a smile.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine;
I have two feet—the world is mine!
And then I stopped to buy some sweets. The lad who sold them had such charm.
I talked to him and he said to me: “It’s nice to talk with folks like you.
You see, “ he said, “I’m blind.”
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine;
I have two eyes—the world is mine!
Then walking down the street, I saw a child with eyes blue.
He stood and watched the others play;
It seemed he knew not what to do.
I stopped a moment, then I said:
“Why don’t you join the others, dear?”
He looked ahead without a word; and then I knew, he could not hear.
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine;
I have two ears—the world is mine!
With feet to take me where I’d go;
With eyes to see the sunset’s glow;
With ears to hear what I would know,
Oh, God, forgive me when I whine;
I’m blessed indeed! The World is Mine!
--Anonymous
"Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."
--Mahatma Gandhi
--Elisabeth Elliot
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