Courage is not acting like you're not scared, it is being scared and acting in faith anyways.
Faith is not pretending like things could not go poorly for you, it is believing that even if things should go poorly for you, they go well because of the value of what you are doing.
A brave man is not brave because he isn't scared, but because, being scared, he acts anyways.
If there is no fear, it does not require courage. Where there is danger and the natural fear of what could go wrong, faithful valor is required to believe that the risk of life and limb in fighting is better than the risk of livelihood in capitulating.
Courage is the act of seeking to assuage your fear by defeating its source.
Cowardice is the act of seeking to assuage your fear by retreating for the source.
"Sometimes fear does not subside and one must choose to do it afraid." - Elisabeth Elliot
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