Pope Francis Quotes

Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is the recognition that some things are more important than fear - and what's more important to me is faith.

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

Part of courage is simple consistency.

The courage of New England was the courage of conscience.

It is curious–curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.

To me, the definition of faith is to fear nothing.

There was no quality Robert Kennedy admired more than courage.

Courage was America's watchword, but a courage of the body rather than of the soul - physical courage, not moral.

If you don't have courage, you can't practice any of the other virtues.

Bravery is good when the cause is good.

Courage is the rarest of all good traits

I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too.

It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God.

It is courage the world needs, not infallibility...courage is always the surest wisdom.

The word courage comes from the same stem as the French word Coeur, meaning "heart." Thus just as one's heart, by pumping blood to one's arms, legs, and brain enables all the other physical organs to function, so courage makes possible all the psychological virtues. Without courage other values wither away into mere facsimiles of virtue.

Courage, after all, is not being unafraid, but doing what needs to be done in spite of fear.

He that is warm for truth, and fearless in its defense, performs one of the duties of a good man; he strenghtens his own conviction, and guards others from delusion; but steadiness of belief, and boldness of profession, are yet only part of the form of godliness.

Courage is the first spiritual quality that you need to have.

The first spiritual quality we need to have is not faith; it is courage.

One man with courage is a majority.

I feel called to be faithful.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

I try to act out of faith.