Sentences with phrase «sheer courage»

In terms of spirit, prophetic force, depth of faith or just sheer courage, this church is gigantic, and its influence is everywhere significant.

Over the past five years we've have watched in awe as she has healed herself through sheer courage and determination.

Indeed, even if they escaped the bullets and the gas and came out whole and now are facing in their personal and family life only the sort of experiences that soon or late fall on most of us, the loss of children, the desperate illness of those whom we love better than ourselves, the collapse of fortune that forces a man to go down to the bottom and start over again, one suspects that more sheer courage is demanded than the Argonne required.

In a day when there is no hope for our civilization except in superior character, Christians should recall that the cross of which they sing means something besides singing — sheer courage to live above the average and ahead of the time.

I watched a video of a press conference that President Nana Akuffo - Addo of Ghana and President Emmanuel Macron of France gave a few days ago and I was not surprised by Akuffo - Addo's sheer courage and refreshing eloquence because I have known him for at least 45 years.

What strikes me about Ms. Halperin's saga is the sheer courage with which she faced the senior singles scene.

However, we must give the ultimate nod to the sheer courage of Kara Walker — being brave enough to provoke aspects of American history nobody wants to be moved from under the rug.