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“If God be for us, who can be against us?”
The rhetorical question is designed to reduce fear of opposition by shifting attention toward a larger source of confidence.
Source note: Romans 8:31 in the King James Version.
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“What then? have you not received greatness of heart, received courage, received fortitude?”
The rhetorical question redirects attention from hardship toward capacities already available for meeting it—courage, endurance, and largeness of spirit.
Source note: The Golden Sayings of Epictetus, saying XIV, in the passage comparing life’s difficulties with enduring the Olympic festival.
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“It is not the critic who counts.”
Participation matters more than detached fault-finding when achievement requires risk, effort, mistakes, and responsibility for an outcome.
Source note: Citizenship in a Republic, commonly called the Man in the Arena speech; Roosevelt contrasts action with spectatorship.
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“Be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.”
Strength is treated as something received and practiced for demanding circumstances, not merely a personality trait.
Source note: Ephesians 6:10 in the King James Version; opening command before the armor metaphor.
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“The righteous are bold as a lion.”
The image links courage with a clear conscience, suggesting that moral confidence can reduce the impulse to flee without cause.
Source note: Proverbs 28:1 in the King James Version; concluding comparison of the verse.
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“Fear thou not; for I am with thee.”
Voice: Reported speaker · The LORD
The answer to fear is not a promise of an effortless situation but assurance of presence and support inside difficulty.
Source note: Isaiah 41:10 in the King James Version; opening reassurance of the verse.