In reading The Art of Manliness, Manvotionals: Timeless Wisdom and Advice on Living the 7 Manly Virtues by Brett McKay, I came across the following quote,
“Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.” -- Winston Churchill
This is very similar to what Lewis said,
“Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality. ” ― C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters
Courage is faith incarnate and outside of it there can be no righteousness.
Habakkuk 2:4
The righteous shall live by his faith.
Courage is required in order to acquire any other virtue. Courage is the seed form of all other virtue just as faith is the source of all faithfulness.
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