If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks straight up to the cause of his fear and is not deterred from doing that which is good — which ultimately means for the sake of God, and therefore not from ambition or from fear of being taken for a coward — this man, and he alone, is truly brave.

The Four Cardinal Virtues: Human Agency, Intellectual Traditions, and Responsible Knowledge (ed. University of Notre Dame Pess, 1990) - ISBN: 9780268089894