David and Goliath

David and Goliath
By Edgar Degas

“Then David said to the Philistine, ‘You come to me with a sword and with a spear and with a javelin, but I come to you in the name of the Lord of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom you have defied. This day the Lord will deliver you into my hand… That all the earth may know that there is a God in Israel, and that all this assembly may know that the Lord does not deliver by sword or by spear. For the battle is the Lord’s, and he will give you into our hands.’”
1 Samuel 17:45-47

“He who trusts in God should be as a pillar of fire, burning bright in the darkness of terror and making a rallying point for weaker hearts… David conquered the temptation to share in the general cowardice before he conquered Goliath.” – Alexander Maclaren

“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.” – C. S. Lewis

“Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you may not understand at the time. Faith is not a feeling; faith is an act of the will.” – Oswald Chambers

“He said not, ‘Thou shalt not be tempest-tossed, thou shalt not be troubled, thou shalt not be distressed,’ but He said, ‘Thou shalt not be overcome.’” – Julian of Norwich