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Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Courage

Quote from Dan Allender in "Leading with a Limp";

"What is courage? G. K. Chesterton wrote, Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. “

He that will lose his life, the same shall save it,” is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes.… A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water, and yet drink death like wine."

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