Quotes About Strength

He heals the brokenhearted and bandages their wounds. —Psalm 147:3

Lord, show me ways to help when I feel helpless. — Kathleen M. Muldoon

What we believe in frightening moments is not as important as Who we believe. — Sheila Sattler Kale —

circumstances. — Katherine A. Fuller —

The Lord is my rock, my fortress, and my savior; my God is my rock, in whom I find protection. He is my shield, the power that saves me, and my place of safety. —Psalm 18:2

Sometimes we just need to cry out, "God, I want to hold you!" and let His love comfort us. — Jan Christiansen —

That's one of the reasons God gives us friends. Through their words, prayers, and encouragement, they keep us going when we feel we can't move.

We can be a refuge for others, just as God is for us. — Jossy Grey

Jesus beckons me to follow him to that place of weakness where I risk the vulnerability of a child so that I might know how strong my Father is and how much he loves me. But truth be told, I would rather be an adult. I'd rather be in a place where I can still pull things together if God doesn't show up, where I risk no ultimate humiliation, where I don't have to take the shallow breaths of desperation. And as a result, my experience of my heavenly Father is simply impoverished.

I am full of tough hope

most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work.

He did not know how long it took, but later he looked back on this time of crying in the corner of the dark cave and thought of it as when he learned the most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work.

I fell off a dogsled down a frozen waterfall and landed on sharp ice on a kneecap. It was so agonizing, I thought, seriously, that my heart would stop. But I found that my whole dog team loved and worried about me so much, they curved downstream and worked back up to me to surround me as I lay clutching my lacerated knee, whimpering and pushing their warm bodies against me. I remember the love, the dog love, much more than the shattered knee. . . .

most important rule of survival, which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work. It wasn't just that it was wrong to do, or that it was considered incorrect. It was more than that—it didn't work. When he sat alone in the darkness and cried and was done, all done with it, nothing had changed.

which was that feeling sorry for yourself didn't work.

Mature masculinity expresses itself not in the demand to be served, but in the strength to serve and to sacrifice for the good of woman.

Mature masculinity does not have to initiate every action, but feels the responsibility to provide a general pattern of initiative.

She never backed down. A fighter to the very last. This is how a human being is forged after an unhappy early life. This is the independence of growing up, of standing up for yourself, even if against a phantom enemy.

like a nobody, like a woman in regional sales gliding through airport lounges in the previrus era, always moving, always herself.

I was proud of New York, now more than ever, for it had survived something another city would have not: its own rage.

This is the superhumanity of the immigrant, but woe be to the all-too-human offspring living in the shadow of such strength.

the man who has the soul of the wolf knows the self-restraint of the wolf

But shall I have the strength to write this book? For there is a great distance between the words we speak uninhibitedly to a friendly audience and the discipline needed to write a book. When we are lecturing, we become animated by the joy of teaching and, at times, our words think for us. But to write a book requires really serious reflection.

who was big and strong, like you, M. Richard, gave two blows to M. Isidore Saack, who was small and weak like M. Moncharmin