Perhaps we are not following Christ all the way or in the right spirit. We are likely, for example, to be a little sparing of the palms and hosannas. We are chary of wielding the scourge of small cords, lest we should offend somebody or interfere with trade. We do not furnish up our wits to disentangle knotty questions about Sunday observance and tribute money, nor hasten to sit at the feet of the doctors, both hearing them and asking them questions. We pass hastily over disquieting jests about making friends with the mammon of unrighteousness and alarming observations about bringing not peace but a sword; nor do we distinguish ourselves by the graciousness by which we sit at meat with publicans and sinners. Somehow or other, and with the best intentions, we have shown the world the typical Christian in the likeness of a crashing and rather ill-natured bore---and this in the name of the one who assuredly never bored a soul in those thirty-three years during which he passed through the world like a flame. Let us, in heaven's name, drag out the divine drama from under the dreadful accumulation of slipshod thinking and trashy sentiment heaped upon it, and set it on an open stage to startle the world into some sort of vigorous reaction. If the pious are the first to be shocked, so much worse for the pious---others will pass into the kingdom of heaven before them. If all men are offended because of Christ, let them be offended; but where is the sense of their being offended at something that is not Christ and is nothing like him? We do him singularly little honor by watering down his personality till it could not offend a fly. Surely it is not the business of the Church to adapt Christ to men, but to adapt men to Christ.
Dorothy L. SayersTag: fearlessness following-christ
Like a Columbus of the heart, mind and soul I have hurled myself off the shores of my own fears and limiting beliefs to venture far out into the uncharted territories of my inner truth, in search of what it means to be genuine and at peace with who I really am. I have abandoned the masquerade of living up to the expectations of others and explored the new horizons of what it means to be truly and completely me, in all my amazing imperfection and most splendid insecurity.
Anthon St. MaartenTag: fear honesty self-esteem courage bravery be-yourself authenticity self-awareness fearlessness inner-peace exploration vulnerability self-realization imperfection masks pretense real self-belief limitations fearless self-love inner-strength insecurity pretending columbus true-self pretentiousness masquerade believe-in-yourself fake-people geniune phoney be-you inauthenticity be-yourself-quote
Dream Bravely.
Find fearlessness inside of you. Dare, and fear will falter. Challenge, and fear will flee. This is the beginning of your dream-making.
Tag: fearlessness carew-papritz the-legacy-letters dream-bravely dream-making
I'm not afraid, that's the difference.
Christopher HawkeTag: fear fearlessness
There are casualties in war. Those who don’t make it back to a place of sound hopes and dreams. Some take on their demons alone. They are deceived into fearlessness and trampled by the hooves of their oppressor.
Besides intervention, there is little justice for the thousands-upon-thousands hacked to pieces all around us.
How dare we try to take life to the next level. Instead of merely protecting ourselves or scrounging up our next meal, we have the audacity to hope for something more—a witness for our lives who will survive alongside us.
Tag: fear deception war dreams hope addiction survival fearlessness witness addicts addictions intervention casualties hopes-and-dreams
But you know I am not of the "afraid" kind. I am not boasting. That is a characteristic, not a quality. One is afraid or one is not. It happens that I am not.
Mildred AldrichTag: fear courage fearlessness
Fearlessness can be its own form of power.
Glenn GreenwaldTag: fear power courage fearlessness journalism 2013
But you decide how you live your life in the meantime. You can hide fear. Or you can live life. - V
Gayle FormanTag: fearlessness fear-of-death live-in-the-here-and-now
Bravery doesn't always mean that you have to be fearless. No one in this world fears nothing, so if you are fearless, then you are no one.
Maureen EguiaTag: bravery fearlessness
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