Quotes About Strength

If ye have faith … nothing shall be impossible unto you." (Matthew 17:20) He removed that one, shuffled expertly through the cards with one hand as he drove, selected another, and placed it under the clip. This one read, "If God be for us, who can be against us?" (Romans 8:31)

Positive thinking looks upon weak places in people as challenging opportunities. You can turn them into your strongest points.

Think defeat and you are bound to feel defeated. But practice thinking confident thoughts, make it a dominating habit, and you will develop such a strong sense of capacity that regardless of what difficulties arise, you will be able to overcome them.

Once when Stonewall Jackson planned a daring attack, one of his generals fearfully objected, saying, "I am afraid of this" or "I fear that …" Putting his hand on his timorous subordinate's shoulder, Jackson said, "General, never take counsel of your fears.

the trouble with most prayers is that they aren't big enough.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles; they toughen and make strong.

There are so many of these mighty spirit lifters! "Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father's house are many mansions …" (John 14:1, 2). "Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you …" (verse 27). "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee" (Isaiah 26:3). "Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed …" (Isaiah 41:10).

So if you feel that you are defeated and have lost confidence in your ability to win, sit down, take a piece of paper and make a list, not of the factors that are against you, but of those that are for you.

The secret is to fill your mind with thoughts of faith, confidence, and security.

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God is with me; God is helping me; God is guiding me.

What, then, shall we say in response to these things?" What things? Why, anything! Disappointment, frustration, nervousness, despair, anxiety, injustice: "What shall we then say to these things?" Well, the answer is . . . "If God is for us, who can be against us?" Isn't that wonderful? That is resonant, that is sturdy, that is the essence of victory.

Practice "seeing" yourself, not as weak, wishy-washy and vascillating, but as strong, controlled, purposeful.

Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

Norman Vincent Peale

I don't believe in defeat'.

God's Word is so powerful. It's sharper than a two-edged sword. (Heb. 4:12.) With the baptism of the Holy Spirit, you have God's power and God's Word working in you.

If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately.

We would call no one a lobster without good and sufficient claws.

What makes a man is not the ability to have a child but having the courage to raise one.

La resignación es una de nuestras virtudes populares. Más que el brillo de la victoria nos conmueve la entereza ante la adversidad.

El mexicano puede doblarse, humillarse, agacharse, pero no rajarse

In my house there were more dead than living. My mother, a thousand-year-old girl, mother of the world, my orphan, self-sacrificing, ferocious, stubborn, provident, titmouse, bitch, ant, wild boar, love letter with spelling mistakes; my mother: bread I'd slice with her own knife each day.