Exercise the Courage of Your Convictions
In order to exercise the courage of your convictions, you must first determine what your convictions are. What character traits are vital to you? How do those traits act? What does it mean to be honest; to be responsible; to show respect to others; to be trustworthy, to exercise self-control;
Courage to Die for Convictions
(This story is true, but names and places have been changed to protect those involved.) John and Caroline, living and working as protestant missionaries in a foreign land, met one evening with three families from the community. Each family had a high school daughter who had begun attending John’s church,
How to Build the Courage of Your Convictions
“Courage” is second only to love in literary themes, yet “courage of convictions” is nearly omitted in society’s literature. Few people offer help in building that kind of courage. Our how-to book, Courage, offers 64-pages of help for adults and mature teens. I recommend you order it. Read it and
The Courageous Student
(This story is excerpted from Courage, an adult how-to book by David Hamilton and Elizabeth Hamilton.) A certain university professor, knowing that her students expected a tediously long and difficult final exam in psychology, decided to play with their minds a little. Carefully, she crafted a single question and laid
Maze of Courage – An Activity for Every Age
Adapt this activity to the age group you are teaching, and help them understand courage. Get every student involved in creating the maze. For very young children, teachers and assistants create a simple, large paper maze that can be placed on the floor, and then guide the children to walk
How Much Courage Did Daniel Have?
A story for children 3-8 years old Have you ever seen a lion – a big, hungry lion? How would you like to spend a whole long, dark night in a big cage filled with hungry lions? Well, long ago and far away, a young man named Daniel spent a
Quotes on “Courage”
Courage …begins by determining what convictions of right and wrong I should hold with no likelihood of change, and then acts to shun fear of others, standing up strongly for those convictions. “Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It
