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1 " It is curious—curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. "
― Russell D. Moore , The Courage to Stand: Facing Your Fear without Losing Your Soul
2 " Elijah’s fear drove him to the point of being cared for by God, almost as a child—with food to eat, with a place to sleep, with a response to his cries. That’s the direction fear leads when it is leading us away from self-sufficiency and toward the gospel by which we stand. In those cases, fear is not just a reaction but a revelation. "
3 " The pattern is fear leading to a word of consolation leading to a revelation. "
4 " for they loved the glory that comes from man more than the glory that comes from God” (John 12:41–43). "
5 " What it means to “stand” for Christ is not, it turns out, to evacuate our internal lives of all fear, or to humiliate our enemies with incontrovertible “winning,” but instead to live out in our very lives the drama of the cross. That means that courage does not come from matching the world’s power and wisdom with more of our own, but instead by being led, like Elijah, where we do not want to go (John 21:18). The courage to stand is the courage to be crucified. "
