Sentences with phrase «only had the courage»

The Christian must not only have the courage to represent a balanced eternal doctrine, but also to enunciate a contemporary slogan which he may, in certain circumstances, do in the name of Christianity, even though it can - not be pronounced by the official Church.

That task belongs to a small group on motorcycles who will not only have the courage to probe unknown routes but will be bold enough to take over the wheel and steer in a new direction.

He only has courage when it comes to harassing lawful citizens!!

The AMPAS allowed for an embracing of the New American cinema with their awards for Best Picture and Best Director for «Midnight Cowboy» in 1969, and only they had the courage (and the smarts) to recognize that «The Godfather Part II» was a superior film to the first in handing it the same two trophies.

This seems illogical, or at least counterproductive, since research also shows that achievement would rise, achievement gaps would narrow, lifetime income would increase, and economic growth would surge if only we had the courage to identify and then replace the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the teacher quality distribution.

The future belongs to those who not only have the the courage to shout, «The emperor has no clothes!»

Noe, Elsi, Shelby, and I all had some pretty awesome adventures, surfed incredible waves, had spontaneous dance parties and met a lot of incredible women who not only had the courage to learn how to surf but trusted us to teach them.

We in the developed world can decide to leave this coal in the ground, if only we had the courage to do so.

Not exact matches

But whether an entrepreneur is made or born doesn't matter to me, the only important question is: do they have courage?

«True sophistication will only come if financial firms have the courage to... compete internationally,» Porter says.

It takes only one thing: Does the public have the courage to realize that we must go through some painful processes for the benefit of our children and our children's children?

Only because of this software I had the courage to trade with US equities.

At Space Angels, it is our strongly - held belief that, in our generation, the people who carry the mantle of this «answerable courage» are not only the young men and women who are risking their lives to go into space, but also the entrepreneurs who are putting everything they have on the line to build a future in space for all humanity.

Actually, dog, I seem to recall that Robert actually did answer a version of this some months ago, and was the only Christian who had the courage to.

Young Roiphe, a girl for whom she has «no pity,» is the sad villain because she lacked the courage to not care about fame, a boldness Roiphe would only uncover after her life was in shambles.

He's the only one among the disciples who has the courage to honestly express what everyone else is thinking and, in turn, he's blessed for sticking his neck out with his doubts.

If only the Archbishops of Eastern Orthodox Churches had such foresight - and courage.

God addresses to the Church the question whether it has the courage to undertake an apostolic offensive into such a future and consequently the necessary courage to show itself to the world sincerely, in such a form that no one can have the impression that the Church only exists as a mere survival from earlier times because it has not yet had time to die.

All presiding ministers of the Church, from the Pope and the bishops down to the parish priests and chaplains, exist only so that there may be Christians, that is men and women who believe, hope and love, who bear their cross, who see light even in darkness, who firmly hope even against hope, men who have the folly and the courage to love in a loveless world.

We have only made a beginning in solving these problems, and it needs courage and mutual confidence between hierarchy and laity if we are to make progress.

The only way to find the courage, and the strength, and have the hope to fulfill our vocation in life is to rely on the grace of the one who called us to that vocation.

They believe in a Church which has the courage, not only to proclaim an eternal life as God's gift and the hope of men, but also to declare that, and how, man has to shape this world of his and its conditions according to the will of God.

Sure it may hurt but it's the only way we will ever learn to grow in our faith strengths and courage and if God can love us unconditionally and forgive us when we have such a hard time with forgiveness of others and even ourselves, then we should learn to do our best to forgive and love as well.

The people who hold the «just war» principle have much to do between wars, not only teaching the criteria but also nurturing the virtues commensurate with the tradition — justice, temperance, patience, courage — through preaching and teaching, liturgy and works of mercy.

Only Audio Adrenaline had the courage to take what sure sounds like a Sunday School rhyme and put it to crunchy pop rock, which made it fairly appealing to 14 - year - olds at church camp too.

Isn't it a shame that human nature, being what it is, has special words for people who act in truth and kindness, showing courage for others instead of only self - righteousness or self - preservation?

If only more had enough desire to look for these truths, intelligence enough to understand them, and courage to speak out about them, instead of bashing each other with their limited understandings and crawling back into their own spiritual or empty caves, to sit by their fire with their clubs at the ready.

We not only learn what courage is by its incarnations, but we are set ablaze by it ourselves, and all the courage that we ever had we neither generated nor achieved; we caught it.

For example, in one speech Hitler said, «In this hour I would ask of the Lord God only this: that, as in the past, so in the years to come He would give His blessing to our work and our action, to our judgement and our resolution, that He will safeguard us from all false pride and from all cowardly servility, that He may grant us to find the straight path which His Providence has ordained for the German people, and that He may ever give us the courage to do the right, never to falter, never to yield before any violence, before any danger... I am convinced that men who are created by God should live in accordance with the will of the Almighty... If Providence had not guided us I could often never have found these dizzy paths... Thus it is that we National Socialists, too, have in the depths of our hearts our faith.

There is only one true justice, only one true forgiveness, only one real courage and these resources are available to whoever has a human face, wherever they are.

For the all - important work of molding our most important possession, our own self — which is in fact the only thing that is truly our own — for molding this into something that has depth and breadth and substance, for nurturing it beyond the shallow and brittle and empty, acts of love and courage and self - sacrifice are needed.

For we are all imitators: other brave sheriffs would follow; to be a dauntless sheriff would come to be recognized as the correct and only the dreaded disapproval would fall to the share of the other kind; courage in this office would become custom, the absence of it a dishonor, just as courage presently replaces the timidlty of the new soldier; then the mobs and the lynchings would disappear, and --

And of course there is the gut - wrenching story of the young man worked up the courage to come out to his parents only to be told by his father, «this is worse than if you had died.»

May they be remembered not only for their acts of cruelty in this camp... but balance against their cruelty the fruits we have reaped under the stress and in the pain; the comradeship, the courage, the greatness of heart, the humility and patience which have... become part of our lives because we have suffered at their hands.

Once this beauty and this moral courage have become flesh and blood in our spatiotemporal world, the whole realm of value is thereby enhanced forever, for what is particular in these individual cases represents the concretion for all time of what before was only «possibility.»

On those terms, it would be expedient to hang out only with the apes who can pull their weight, the avengers who have the muscle and courage to do in the outsider who threatens.

Pope John Paul, man of courage, carried on with the ceremonies and it was only later that the blood on his inner clothes revealed that he had indeed been wounded in the attack.

And if he has perceived this and assured himself that he has not courage to understand it, he will at least have a presentiment of the marvelous glory this knight attains in the fact that he becomes God's intimate acquaintance, the Lord's friend, and (to speak quite humanly) that he says «Thou» to God in heaven, whereas even the tragic hero only addresses Him in the third person.

For my part I can in a way understand Abraham, but at the same time I apprehend that I have not the courage to speak, and still less to act as he did — but by this I do not by any means intend to say that what he did was insignificant, for on the contrary it is the one only marvel.

There is only shame in knowing that you were created to do or be something and then not having the courage to pursue it with abandon.

The truth is liberating — but only when you have the courage to live it.

David after forty plus years in and out of churches hearing and reading even studying and dissecting (if that matters) For me, and that is the only one I ever speak for, if it is a song, a scripture that I may recall, a line in a movie or something one might share here, its only those that breath hope, light the way, give courage, inspire, and comfort to me as an individual that have meaning.

The courage of U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empire.

That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter.

Thus, having little spiritual courage for undergoing humiliation at any level, we manifest in our common life today what I can only consider a kind of repressed melancholy — the melancholy of those who wish above all not to appear melancholy.

... if we are to be attentive to God's work in the world, we must listen attentively to the language of the people of our time... It is not only a matter of expressing the Gospel message in contemporary language; it is also necessary to have the courage to think more deeply - as happened in other epochs - about the relationship between faith, the life of the Church and the changes human beings are experiencing.

It would only have needed a little self - restraint and a little courage.

As someone who changed his beliefs from one that didn't fit, to one that does, I can only counsel you to have courage and know that you will find your feet and come out on the other side more authentic to who you are.

Staupitz had written only ten days before to Link: «Martin has undertaken a hard task and acts with courage, enlightened by God.

A believer can feel strong and have the courage to confront not only evil spirits but also the threats of this world.