Quotes About Strength

Nancy Mairs writes that calamities "have a genius of their own.

Fasting is designed to make prayer mount up as on eagles' wings. It is intended to usher the suppliant into the audience chamber of the King and to extend to him the golden sceptre. It may be expected to drive back the oppressing powers of darkness and loosen their hold on the prayer objective. It is calculated to give an edge to a man's intercessions and power to his petitions. Heaven is ready to bend its ear to listen when someone prays with fasting.

they fasted as well as wept before the Lord, and God gave them overwhelming victory (Judg. 20). What power with God to turn the tide has prayer accompanied by fasting!

As she watched him she understood the quality of his beauty. How his labor had shaped him. How the wood he fashioned had fashioned him. Each plank he planed, each nail he drove, each thing he made molded him. Had left its stamp on him. Had given him his strength, his supple grace.

By then Esthappen and Rahel had learned that the world had other ways of breaking men. They were already familiar with the smell. Sicksweet. Like old roses on a breeze.

The fact that something so fragile, so unbearably tender had survived, had been allowed to exist, was a miracle.

Her collarbones like wings that spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin.

That a woman that they had already damned, now had little left to lose, and could therefore be dangerous.

Still the Amaltas bloomed, a brilliant, defiant yellow. Each blazing summer it reached up and whispered to the hot brown sky, Fuck You.

Indian nationalists and the government seem to believe that they can fortify their idea of a resurgent India with a combination of bullying and Boeing airplanes. But they don't understand the subversive strength of warm boiled eggs.

Vi?a nov?rsa skatienu. Vi?š ar?. Pag?tnes d?moni atgriez?s, lai vi?us sag?st?tu. Lai atkal iet?tu pag?tnes vecaj?, r?tainaj? ?d? un aizvilktu atpaka? uz turieni, kur tie paties?b? mita. Kur M?lest?bas Likumi nosaka, kuru dr?kst m?l?t. Un k?. Un cik stipri.

He had seen her through so much; he believed that if not he, then certainly music, would see her through this too.

Her collarbones like wings spread from the base of her throat to the ends of her shoulders. A bird held down by skin. — Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things . (Random House April 22, 1997)

Reading the papers, it was often hard to tell when people were referring to Viagra (which was competing for second place on the front pages) and when they were talking about the nuclear bomb—"We have superior strength and potency." (This was our minister for defense after Pakistan completed its tests.)

Even later, on the thirteen nights that followed this one, instinctively they stuck to the Small Things. The Big Things ever lurked inside. They knew that there was nowhere for them to go. They had nothing. No future. So they stuck to the small things.

There are women who make things better... simply by showing up. There are women who make things happen. There are women who make their way. There are women who make a difference. And women who make us smile. There are women of wit and wisdom who- through strength and courage- make it through. There are women who change the world everyday... Women like you.

You died. I cried. And kept on getting up. A little slower. And a lot more deadly.

i Believe In The Fire Of Love And The Sweat Of Truth

I am about life. I'm gonna live as hard as i can and as full as i can until i die. And i'm not letting these parasites, these oppressors, these greedy racist swine make me kill my children in my mind, before they are even born.

Only the strong go crazy. The weak just go along.

Courage is strength in the face of knowledge of what is to be feared or hoped. Wisdom is prudent strength. At least two kinds of courage are required in aging and sickness. The first is the courage to confront the reality of mortality—the courage to seek out the truth of what is to be feared and what is to be hoped. Such courage is difficult enough. We have many reasons to shrink from it. But even more daunting is the second kind of courage—the courage to act on the truth we find.

Courage, Laches responds, "is a certain endurance of the soul.

operation I believe that with enough will and effort I can beat the odds.

her arm. Her face sagged. Her speech slurred. Although