Rosa Parks Quotes

Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval.

Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.

The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.

Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven.

I'm God's chosen child. I don't worry or carry anything extra to feel the strength. I've always felt the power of God beside me. Your strength lies in instilling honesty, truth, and sincerity in you.

God is always in my life, and that's the most important thing to me.

Your God is ever beside you - indeed, He is even within you.

I always say God doesn't need me, but I need Him in my life to survive in this world and over temptation. That's Who keeps me humble every time.

The most important thing as a leader is your relationship with God.

He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God's providence to lead him aright.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.

The greatest man is he who chooses the Right with invincible resolution, who resists the sorest temptations from within and without, who bears the heaviest burdens cheerfully, who is calmest in storms and most fearless under menace and frowns, whose reliance on truth, on virtue, on God, is most unfaltering. I believe this greatness to be most common among the multitude, whose names are never heard.

Make sure you have that conviction to do what you know is right, and once you have it, don't let skeptics distract you from your path.

What I do and what I love, I don't betray that. Sometimes people say you have to tolerate it. No, you have to do what you think necessary, what your heart tells you, and go where the Almighty leads you.

I had my battles. I had my times of just being upset and God would show me, 'Hey, I'm right here, I'll walk you through this and it doesn't make sense now but just trust me.' That's where faith come in - trust.

God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse.

Nay, droop not, fellows; innocence should be bold.

I've been able to stay good because of my family and keeping God first. If you don't have God in your life, how are you going to navigate through this world?

God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk.

God is the only way you're going to make it in life, the glue that holds everything together.

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

While I value the good opinion of my fellow citizens as highly as anyone, I may be permitted to say that I am governed by higher considerations than either the favor or the fear of man. I am impelled to the course I have taken because I fear God.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

I've always been someone who's believed in truth. I believe truth exists. I don't believe in relativism, a 'your truth, my truth' kind of a thing. However, I also believe that the truth must always be spoken in love - and that grace and truth are found in Jesus Christ.