Quotes About Strength

I think it was the first real pain I ever felt in my life...It wasn't what I thought it would be at all. It didn't put an end to me as a person. I think...it gave me a basis for comparison, finding out you could still exist inside the pain, in SPITE of the pain.

The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs.

When there is love, scars are as pretty as dimples.

But there are weak men who can lift cars if their wives are pinned underneath. The brain, Garraty. McVries's voice had dropped to a hoarse whisper. It isn't man or God. It's something...in the brain.

Stand and be true

Deep inside her (ih her harrowed soul) she felt a glowing ember of fury at the man responsible for this. Tha man who had put her in this position. She looked at the pistol lying beside the basin, and knew that if he were here, she would use it on him without a moment's hesitation. Knowing that made her feel confused about herself. It also made her feel a little stronger.

The first thing was to get down to Addie Richardson's henhouse, and that was a goodish way, four or five miles. She found herself wondering if the Lord was going to send her an eagle to fly her those four miles, or send Elijah in his fiery chariot to give her a lift. Blasphemy, she told herself complacently. The Lord provides strength, not taxicabs.

love is what moves the world, I've always thought ... it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down ... bring them low ... and make them crawl

Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman has to hold onto.

But listen to me, all three of you, n hear this if you don't hear nothing else: everything I did, I did for love . . . the love a natural mother feels for her children. That's the strongest love there is in the world, and it's the deadliest. There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.

the only way to go on is to go on. To say I can do this even when you know you can't.

you will not falter, because you will have the Everlasting Arm of the Lord God of Hosts to lean on. Yes. With God's help you will stand.

If it's ka, it'll come like a wind, and your plans will stand before it no more than a barn before a cyclone.

That's your job in this hard world, to keep your love alive and see that you get on, no matter what. Pull your act together and just go on.

A gunslinger knows pride, that invisible bone that keeps the neck stiff.

She helped me find my heart when I thought my heart was gone.

Mind over matter in any form is a terrific drain on the body's resources.

Here is something I learned in Empis: good people shine brighter in dark times.

I thought of telling him I didn't know about reasons, only about chains—how they form themselves, link by link, out of nothing; how they knit themselves into the world. Sometimes you can grab a chain and use it to pull yourself out of a dark place. Mostly, though, I think you get wrapped up in them. Just caught, if you're lucky. Fucking strangled, if you're not.

When one has little faith, one must survive from day to day signs-

There is really nothing so comforting to the beaten of spirit or the broken of skull than a good strong dose of 'Thy will be done.

How else could he go on, except with merciful incomprehension held before him like a shield? How could anyone?

It's best to be ruthless with the past. It ain't the blows we're dealt that matter, but the ones we survive.

Don't feel sorry for yourself. Make do.