Quotes About Strength

Rudeness is a weak imitation of strength.

Anger is the prelude to courage.

sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will make me cry by myself in a corner for hours.

Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will make you go into a corner by myself and cry for hours.

Trials are a part of life, but there is value in sometimes experiencing adversity which will test (and so strengthen) our faith and also build an understanding of God and ourselves.

Most women got this thing called compassion. It doesn't make them foolish, just more forgiving. More capable of trying and hoping things worked out.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

It is little use to blame a dog for having fear. A dog has so many braveries that its few fears do not cancel them out.

Ah, war – machine wars. Bullets took them all. The brave and the cowardly, the weak and the fine strong ones like Dannie. And it wasn't the dying that took bravery, then, for cowards could die. It was the living that took bravery – living in that mud and rain and cold and keeping the spirit strong through it all. That was the bravery.

The fatherless man can find strength in the fatherhood of God. Through a relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ, God becomes our Father. He is proud of His children because He is pleased with His Son who lives in them. In Jesus, God was and is calling those who are His children as they hear His voice and respond by the power of the Holy Spirit ( John 8:39–47; 10:22–30).

It's time for manhood to be restored.

God's gospel stirs desire in us, which leads to our working—through His strength, on His desired goals for our lives.

As men, we must not become lethargic in our vigilance against things that would attempt to destroy manhood.

How can you change the world? The answer: find seven women, turn them loose, and watch Satan tremble in their presence." —

When I consider the seven women I chose, I see that most of them were great for reasons that derive precisely from their being women, not in spite of it; and what made them great has nothing to do with their being measured against or competing with men. In other words, their accomplishments are not gender-neutral but are rooted in their singularity as women. All

Do the right thing, seek the truth, defend the weak, live courageous lives.

May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself. . .

Take all we have, only give us peace'? In God's name…let us at least make one effort; and if we must fall, let us fall like men!

a person's strength comes solely from being united with the will of God. You

When it was all over, Pitt had overwhelmingly won the House of Commons, and as politically weak as he was before the election, he was now strong. It was an historic and glorious reversal, and little Wilberforce was at the very center of it all.

As long as we let the word be our only armor we can look confidently into the future.

At the center were numerous hospital and care facilities, including orphanages. Bonhoeffer had never seen anything like it. It was the antithesis of the Nietzschean worldview that exalted power and strength. It was the gospel made visible, a fairy-tale landscape of grace, where the weak and helpless were cared for in a palpably Christian atmosphere.

Great men like Wilberforce and Wesley had the humility and the wisdom to know that whatever strengths they had—and they had many—they could not win without a total reliance on God. At its core, every battle worth fighting is a spiritual battle. Those men were able to succeed only because they humbled themselves and entrusted the battle to God.

And one cannot simply think about God in one's own strength, one has to enquire of him.