Morning Briefings

We must have courage to face life’s inevitables: pain, suffering and sorrow. When trouble comes, the coward says, ‘Run away.’ The hero says, ‘Stay and master it.’ Courage is not an instinct. Fear is an instinct. Courage is something that you acquire.

– James Milton McKnight from
Strength for Service to God and Country

Now journey forth!

– Exodus 14:15

For if a man will betray God, he will surely betray man!

– Gereon Goldmann
The Shadow of His Wings

Without emotion we are unable to sense risk; with emotion, we can’t control the fear that risk generates. Welcome to the human race!

– James Montier
Just One Thing

Have you ever wondered what happened to the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence? Five were captured by the British as traitors and tortured before they died; 12 had their homes ransacked and burned; two lost their sons serving in the Revolutionary army; another had two sons captured; nine fought and died from wounds or hardships of the war. But they signed the Declaration of Independence knowing full well that the penalty would be death if they were captured.

– Walter Thorpe, Maj. USAF (retired)
as reported on messianic.com

No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends.

– John 15: 13

People are afraid to pursue their most important dreams, because they feel that they don’t deserve them, or that they’ll be unable to achieve them.

– Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist

This is not a tale of kings, popes and statesmen, but of merchants, monks and fishermen who have lived and worked far from the spotlight of history.

– Brian Fagan
Fish on Friday

We could never learn to be brave and patient if there were only joy in the world.

– Helen Keller