Quotes about Courage

If I had heard that as many devils would set on me in Worms as there are tiles on the roofs, I should nonetheless have ridden there.

Be a sinner and sin mightily, but more mightily believe and rejoice in Christ.

Here stand I. I can do no other.

We will have to depend in this generation not merely for the hateful words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people

Here I stand, I can do no other, God help me. Amen!

And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us.

Hier stehe Ich, Ich kann nicht anders." ("Here I stand, I can do no other")

Our whole life should be manly; we should fear God and put our trust in him.

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe.

Here I stand, I can do no other.

Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For ... faith, the confession thereof, and the cross do follow one another.

God once spoke through the mouth of an ass. I will tell you straight what I think. I am a Christian theologian and I am bound not only to assert, but to defend the truth with my blood and death. I want to believe freely and be a slave to the authority of no one, of a council, a university, or pope. I will confidently confess what appears to me to be true whether it has been asserted by a Catholic or a heretic, whether it has been approved or reproved by a council.