John Wayne on Courage

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway."

—Actor John Wayne (1907–1979)

Marathon Man Inspired by Wife's Suffering

Joey Lee was in the race of his life—the 150-mile Marathon Des Sables, across the Moroccan Sahara Desert. On day four, Lee was still running, though ...

Sir Edmund Hillary Overcomes Mount Everest

Failure does not shape you; the way you respond to failure shapes you. Sir Edmund Hillary made several unsuccessful attempts at scaling Mount Everest ...

Charles Simeon's Long-Term Leadership

Even before finishing his degree, and still lacking pastoral experience, Charles Simeon put his name forward for the pastorate of Cambridge's Holy ...

William Wilberforce's Long Fight Against Slavery

In the middle of the eighteenth century, Christians became increasingly concerned about the slave trade. They amassed information on the inhumane treatment ...

Man Prays at Wailing Wall

A journalist assigned to the Jerusalem bureau takes an apartment overlooking the Wailing Wall. Every day when she looks out, she sees an old Jewish man ...

Hope After Disaster on Everest

English explorer George Mallory dreamed of conquering Mount Everest. He organized an expedition, but it failed. A second attempt also failed. A third ...

All Michael Jordan's Failures

I have missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I have lost almost 300 games. On 26 occasions I have been entrusted to take the game winning shot and ...

Persistent Rescuers Save Pennsylvania Miners

On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, nine Pennsylvania miners were trapped 240 feet underground in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. For three days Americans followed ...

J. R. R. Tolkien Notes How Good Foils Evil

Author J. R. R. Tolkien once wrote in a letter:

"No man can estimate what is really happening at the present. All we do know, and that to a large ...