Ahead! Courage! In the spiritual life he who does not advance goes backward. It happens as with a boat which always must go ahead. If it stands still the wind will blow it back.
Interpretation
Progress in life requires courage; stagnation leads to regression.
This quote emphasizes the importance of courage in our spiritual and personal development. It likens the journey of life to a boat that must constantly move forward, suggesting that inaction results in being pushed backward by life's challenges, much like a boat that remains stationary will be blown away by the wind. The message encourages individuals to demonstrate bravery and determination in their pursuit of growth and advancement.
In practice
This quote can be used in a motivational speech to encourage participants to face their fears.
The greatest act of faith is that which rises to your lips in total darkness together with the sacrifices, sufferings and wholehearted efforts of a determined will to do good. This act of faith strikes through the darkness of your soul like lightening. In the midst of tempest it raises you up and leads you to God.
It would be easier for the world to survive without the sun than to do so without the Holy Mass.
A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.
Ye have locked yerselves up in cages of fear and, behold, do ye now complain that ye lack FREEDOM!
Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
Every person remembers some moment in their life where they witnessed some injustice, big or small, and looked away because the consequences of intervening seemed too intimidating. But there's a limit to the amount of incivility and inequality and inhumanity that each individual can tolerate. I crossed that line. And I'm no longer alone.
Battles are won in the hearts of men.
Wherever there was injustice, war, discrimination against women, gays and the disadvantaged, I did my best to show up and exert moral persuasion.
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