Quotes About Strength

We don't miss you as you might think. You see, we have made it without you and will always. Take care, and don't ever return to Maasailand.

Screw the punch; you want a knock-out, don't you?

Women are delicate creatures. Fragile. Gentle. Made by God to be sheltered from the harshness of this world.. Morgan MacDonnell

I see a man," she said softly. "A man with the roar of cannons still ringing in his ears. A man bloodied by life, but not beaten. A man with a scar that draws his mouth into a frown when he might actually long to smile.

All the trials we endure cannot be compared to these interior battles.

souls without prayer are like people whose bodies or limbs are paralysed: they possess feet and hands but they cannot control them.

Not a fig shall I care then for all the devils in hell: it is they who will fear me. I do not understand these fears. "Oh, the devil, the devil!" we say, when we might be saying "God! God!" and making the devil tremble. Of course we might, for we know he cannot move a finger unless the Lord permits it. Whatever are we thinking of? I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

we are weakness itself, and unless He guards the city, in vain shall we labor to defend it.

The truly humble person will have a genuine desire to be thought little of, and persecuted, and condemned unjustly, even in serious matters. For, if she desires to imitate the Lord, how can she do so better than in this? And no bodily strength is necessary here, nor the aid of anyone save God.

pay no attention to the scarecrows the devils set up in order to cause fear. We should know that each time we pay no attention to them they are weakened, and the soul gains much more mastery.

there are people whose nature it is to be very much cast down by small things.

Dime gran fatiga, y como si yo pudiera algo o fuera algo, lloraba con el Señor y le suplicaba remediase tanto mal.

Fixed your eyes on the Crucified One and all will seem easy.

The powers of devils are nothing if these devils do not find souls cowardly and surrendered to them; it is with such souls that they show their power.

You're a superhero. Deal with it.

Embracing your mistakes and highlighting your flaws disables your enemies instantly. (IDCE2013 conference)

The greatest enemy of the Greeks is not a Nation, for no Nation is a match for any Greek. It is the Greek himself that is his worst enemy.

Under the bludgeonings of chance / My head is bloody, but unbowed." When

The paradox for boys is that in order to be worthy of connection they must prove themselves invulnerable, button down warriors in the world's emotional market place.

In the world of boys and men you're either a winner or a loser, one up or one down in control or controlled, man enough or a girl.

strength is not the absence of vulnerability. Strength is knowing what your weaknesses are and working with them.

Love is not for the faint of heart.

So could it be that good can come out of suffering? That God uses it to build things into us? Things we might need?

When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too.