Quotes About Strength

As David's three worthies ventured their lives, and brake through the host of the Philistines for water, 2 Sam. xxiii. 46, — Such a kind of violence must we use, breaking through all dangers for obtaining the 'water of life.

God sometimes afflicts with infirmity of body. Sickness takes away the comfort of life, and makes one in deaths oft.

A shaking hand may as well write a line steadily, as we can keep our hearts fixed in prayer without the Spirit of God.

Prayer is the spiritual pulse of the soul, by which it beats strongly after God.

They who pray that they may not be led into temptation, must not lead themselves into temptation. 2.

Affliction may leap on us as the viper did on Paul, but at last it shall be shaken off.

Why do we fall? So we can get back up again.

I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea.

I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.

She had been through hard straits herself and assumed that persons of quality did not discuss them. Steel exists to support pressure.

A man can produce fortitude from his own vitals, but the true food of valor is example.

The basis on which good repute in any highly organized industrial community ultimately rests is pecuniary strength and the means of showing pecuniary strength, and so of gaining or retaining a good name, are leisure and a conspicuous consumption of goods.

Division turned out to be humanity's strength, togetherness its arms.

If you feel so empty So used up, so let down If you feel so angry So ripped off so stepped on You're not the only one Refusing to back down You're not the only one So get up

Si estás poseído por el temor no pierdas el tiempo tratando de "matar" el temor; en cambio, cultiva el valor y el temor desaparecerá.

If you are possessed of Fear, do not waste time trying to "kill out" Fear, but instead cultivate the quality of Courage, and the Fear will disappear.

Resolutely ignoring Banu's dark mutterings, steeling herself against the barrage of harsh words that questioned her motives, her upbringing, and her morality

Strength, beti. Be strong. Bibi turns tearfully toward her. "How, mausi?" she asks. "How? He was my rock. How do I learn to see the world through my own eyes?" Bhima falls silent, feeling acutely her own inadequacy. By breathing one breath at a time, she wants to say. By waking up one morning after another. By putting one foot ahead of the next, until your feet recall how to walk again.

I will carry you upon my shoulders, my son And climb the tallest mountain So you can behold all the fruit Of our alive and green valley.

Maybe, in the end, that's all that love was—doing the hard thing.

Hope, thin as a thread, sharp as a fishing line, cut into David's heart." p. 79

knitted sweater of muscle and bone and nerve endings—would

By seeing this food as medicine, I will consume it without attachment or complaint, Not to increase my arrogance, strength, or good looks, But solely to sustain my life.

You know as well as we do that right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.