It takes courage to extend mercy with a smile when you are wronged. It takes courage to face new truths with confidence. It takes courage to grow old with grace. It takes courage to relinquish leadership with hope. It takes courage to face hostility with love.
Courage is the virtue that turns fear, disappointment, and challenge into victory and joy.
Fidelity is a virtue that is lived in actual fact. Courage is a virtue that is lived in actual fact. In computer game rooms today, virtual reality game buffs are trading actual identity for the electronic essence of identity. In churches today, religious people are trading the joy of actual virtue for the essence of it, because they do not trust themselves, and they do not trust Christ. Accept Christ in you.