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On April 15, 1947, Jackie Robinson became pro baseball's first black player when he debuted with the Brooklyn Dodgers. But there's an amazing story of faith and courage behind Robinson's entry into baseball. Branch Rickey was the Dodger's baseball executive who eventually signed Jackie Robinson. Rickey's…

Brother Andrew, who heads a ministry called Open Doors and who is most famous for his 1967 book, God’s Smuggler, describes Christ’s call in the mid-1990s like this: There’s not one door in the world closed where you want to witness for Jesus.… Show me a closed door and I will tell you how you can get…

A few weeks ago I was in Cape Town, South Africa, for a gathering of world Christian leaders from 200 countries. One of the speakers was the Anglican archbishop of Jos, Nigeria. His name is Benjamin Kwashi, and he shared a story that was horrific and inspiring at the same time. Jos, this city in Nigeria,…

Josef Tson was a pastor in Romania before the fall of the Communists. He was outspoken in his stand for God. He talks about the realization he had, before he took his stand, that doing what God was calling him to do would mean suffering, and, perhaps, even death. On one occasion he was arrested and interrogated.…

Many in this room have had the experience: You’ve stood at someone’s front door, or waited in some business man’s office, knees knocking, breath shallow with anticipation, waiting for that “moment” to arrive. You were selling something and this person was a potential buyer. It might have been magazines,…

And identity matters. John Orgberg writes that many years ago He was walking in Newport Beach, a beach in Southern California, with two friends. The two of them were on staff together at a church, and one was an elder at the same church. They walked past a bar where a fight had been going on inside.…

If we don’t stand for something, we will fall for anything. Braude’s Handbook of Stories, Jacob M. Braude, page 163

“Don’t stick your neck out...don’t go out on a limb”. The person who never goes out on a limb will never, it’s true, have the limb cut off while he’s on it but neither will he ever reach the best fruit which comes only to those who face life boldly, with no thought of the possibility of failure.

I’d rather see five brave, bright-yellow dandelions flaunting their yellow banners on a chilly day in spring than view ten hothouses full of long-stemmed red roses. - Quoted in St. Louis Post-Dispatch Reader’s Digest, April 1975, page24

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile – hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill Reader’s Digest, August 1994, page 29

When someone shares his fears with you, share your courage with him. Lifetime Speaker’s Encyclopedia, Volume 2, Jacob M. Braude, page 748

Some said, “Don’t rock the boat!” but I decided to join those who preferred rocking the boat to wrecking the boat. In such a time silence is consent – not golden – but yellow! The shepherd sees the wolf coming. That is the right time to see the wolf – not after he is among the flock! We are sheep among…

Some said, “Don’t rock the boat!” but I decided to join those who preferred rocking the boat to wrecking the boat. In such a time silence is consent – not golden – but yellow! The shepherd sees the wolf coming. That is the right time to see the wolf – not after he is among the flock! We are sheep among…

Courage is not the absence but the conquest of fear. Lifetime Speaker’s Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Jacob M. Braude, page 139

Silence may be golden – but oftener it is guilt. Lifetime Speaker’s Encyclopedia, Volume 2, Jacob M, Braude, page 749

I don’t like to commit myself about heaven and hell – you see, I have friends in both places. Reader’s Digest, May 1977, page 177

Our For What It’s Worth Department understands B. J. Chandler is school superintendent in Dardanelle, Arkansas. Reports the junior high girl came to school wearing one red sock and one blue sock. When Mr. Chandler asked her the significance she said she was an “individualist”. She said, “I have a right…

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable. Lifetime Speaker’s Encyclopedia, Jacob M. Braude, page 140

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that things are difficult. – Seneca (BC 3-65 AD, Roman Philosopher, Dramatist, Statesman)

There is a time when silence is not golden, just yellow. The time has come when we must speak out, without fear, against those who imperil our liberties. - Israel Chodos Lifetime Speaker’s Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Jacob M. Braude, page 144

As the first soldiers jumped into the night sky, their parachutes blossoming above them, there was little time to speculate on what lay ahead. As Sergeant May put it: “Everyone was afraid of appearing afraid, and I guess that’s what courage really is – not letting the other fellow know how scared you…

I’ve always remembered a story someone told me years ago about one of our more colorful congressional leaders, the late Martin Barnaby Madden of Ill. It seems that near the end of his long and distinguished career, Representative Madden observed that a certain young congressman was often voting as pressure…

If you don’t stand for something, you’ll fall for anything. Several years ago, I heard the story of Larry Walters, a 33-year-old man who decided he wanted to see his neighborhood from a new perspective. He went down to the local army surplus store one morning and bought forty-five used weather balloons.…

Hats off to Richard Petty, the King of Stock Car Racing. Over 30 years ago he promised his mother that he would have nothing to do with strong drink and has remained true to his word. He refused even to place a Busch beer sticker on his race car, thus making the car ineligible for the Busch Pole Award…

You have to be careful about being too careful. - Beryl Pfizer