Quotes About Strength

How thankful I am for Matthew 5:11: "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you.

And He has said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." —Martin Luther King Jr. They

Our moments of insurmountable circumstances are actually invitations from the Lord to choose to praise Him.

In those days, men proved their strength and manliness by being well mannered, helpful, and gentle. Just how gentle they could be under trying circumstances, how civilised they could be in a harsh world, that was the measure of a man.

hard times. He said: "Keep your eyes on the resurrection, and you can endure the cross." The cross is not a burden; it's the call of God on our lives.

In 2 Samuel 22: 36 David said of the Lord, ... thy gentleness hath made me great. David was a great warrior, but he declared that it wasn't his boldness, assurance or strength that made him great; rather, it was God's gentleness. This is the character trait that will gain victories for the leader and the one who serves him as armorbearer.

Several years ago the Lord said something to me that has helped me during hard times. He said: "Keep your eyes on the resurrection, and you can endure the cross.

Care is not fast-moving like anger. Anger is suddenly right there, ready to mobilize and move—now! Care is a warm, deep reservoir of comforting ?strength and sanity that you can steadily draw upon over time. Care for yourself is the foundation.

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

Today, I feel stronger, learning to live within the natural cycles of a day and to not expect too much of myself. As women, we hold the moon in our bellies. It is too much to ask to operate on full-moon energy three hundred and sixty-five days a year. I am in a crescent phase.

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

Did you think a little time and death would stop me?

We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles

Those things belong to the darkness. We must rely on God. We must ask Him to make us strong, unafraid. To give us the strength to band together, to defeat these devils." She makes the sign of the cross. "God will guide us through this.

They want to break the only thing we have left, our spirits. I will not let them. No matter what they do to me.

When you are young and strong you can be sure of springing free of your material envelope through your own vitality; later, any dinginess or fustiness may seep back into you

gates of hell and on in

good pard is a rock, not easily chipped or dented.

You can just about always stand more 'n you think you can.

We must despise all these temptations and pay no attention whatsoever to them.

yet I think Our Lord made use of it to show me that a soul in the state of grace has nothing to fear from the devil, who is a coward, and will even fly from the gaze of a little child.

Nothing whatsoever but the love of Jesus could have made me face these difficulties and others which followed, for I had to purchase my happiness by heavy trials.