Courage Quotes

“A coward lives by his feelings. They dominate him. He’s emotionally up and down, depending on how he feels that day. The coward is not as concerned about what is true as he is about what is easy. He will gladly exchange truth for comfort. He’s always taking the safe path, the easy way out. He backs away from challenges. He is always hedging his bets. He’s a fence rider. He tries to live for both Christ and himself at the same time, but when there is a choice to be made, he chooses himself over Christ every time. When opposed, he compromises the truth. The courageous person lives by principle. His feelings may go up and down, but he doesn’t allow them to control his choices. In fact, he often has to act despite his feelings. That’s what we see in Paul. Paul”
― Wayne A. Mack, Courage: Fighting Fear with Fear

“Dr. Jay Adams explains: The enemy of fear is love; the way to put off fear, then, is to put on love. . . . Love is self-giving, fear is self-protecting. Love moves towards others; fear shrinks away from them. But . . . love is the stronger since it is able to “cast out” fear. In dealing with fear, nothing else possesses the same expulsive power.4”
― Wayne A. Mack, Courage: Fighting Fear with Fear

“You must understand this. If you are dominated by sinful fear, worry, and anxiety, your problem is that you are too self-centered. You are a selfish person. You are thinking about yourself too much.”
― Wayne A. Mack, Courage: Fighting Fear with Fear

“That’s the distinction. It’s not wrong to be distressed, to be troubled, to be frightened, or to have those emotions. It is wrong when those emotions control you. It’s wrong when your anguish is not in keeping with the facts clearly given to you in Scripture. That’s what Jesus was telling these disciples. Do not allow your distress to keep you from thinking biblically about your situation.”
― Wayne A. Mack, Courage: Fighting Fear with Fear

“Our fears are due to our failure to stir up, a failure to think, a failure to take ourselves in hand. You find yourself looking to the future and then you begin to imagine things and you say: “I wonder what is going to happen?” And then your imagination runs away with you. You are gripped by the thing; you do not stop to remind yourself of who and what you are, this thing overwhelms you and you go down. Now the first thing you need to do is take a firm grip of yourself, and speak to yourself. As the Apostle puts it, we have to remind ourselves of certain things. . . . The big thing Paul is saying to Timothy is, “Timothy, you seem to be thinking about yourself and your life and all you have to do as if you are still an ordinary person. But Timothy, you are not an ordinary person. You are a Christian, you have the Spirit of God within”
― Wayne A. Mack, Courage: Fighting Fear with Fear

“The root meaning of phobo, the Greek term for fear, is “flight.” That’s the nature of fear. Fear causes us to run away from things that frighten us. And fear becomes sinful when it causes us to run away from the things God has commanded us to do. In”
― Wayne A. Mack, Courage: Fighting Fear with Fear

“No matter how many steps you have taken away from God, it’s only one step back.”
― Wayne A Mack, Courage: Fighting Fear with Fear

“If you are going to be calm in the midst of chaos, there’s something you must stop doing. When life gets difficult, when it feels as though you are being squeezed by the pressures all around you, you must refuse to panic. Jesus was not telling His disciples they were not”
― Wayne A Mack, Courage: Fighting Fear with Fear