#heroic

Believe me, 'tis a godlike thing to lend; to owe is a heroic virtue. ↗

— Francois Rabelais

#godlike #heroic #lend #me #owe

Christianity is not the faith of the complacent, the comfortable or of the timid. It demands and creates heroic souls like Wesley, Wilberforce, Bonhoeffer, John Paul the Second, and Billy Graham. Each showed, in their own way, the relentless and powerful influence of the message of Jesus Christ. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#billy graham #christ #christianity #comfortable #complacent

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world. ↗

— Ansel Adams

#creeds #heroic #myths #struggles #truth

Videogame players essentially choose whether to win the game or to die heroically. There's a certain glory in both. ↗

— John Green

#certain #choose #die #essentially #game

I find Jessica Jones a much more interesting character to write for than Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman is so noble and heroic, and I don't find that as interesting as one who's really damaged and flawed and has post-traumatic stress disorder. ↗

— Melissa Rosenberg

#damaged #disorder #find #flawed #heroic

Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. ↗

— Walter Scott

#grace #hereditary #heroic #lends #makes

One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#could #everlasting #fashionable #grand #great

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. ↗

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

#everyday #everyday life #great #heroic #insipid

Some people might say my coming out after just winning the MVP award is heroic, and I understand that. ↗

— Sheryl Swoopes

#award #coming #heroic #i #just

That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#good #heroic #remind #show #stories