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Quotes About Strength

I am a woman : — tell me not of fame !
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Once set a strong mind thinking, and you have done all that it needs for its education.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
There are no weaknesses which we so thoroughly despise as those to which ourselves have yielded.
~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
The hour is desperately dark; your flame is needed.
~ Lettie B. Cowman
God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty. (1 Cor. 1:27)
~ Lettie B. Cowman
When crew and captain understand each other to the core, It takes a gale and more than a gale to put their ship ashore; For the one will do what the other commands, although they are chilled to the bone; And both together can live through weather that neither could face alone. KIPLING
~ Lettie B. Cowman
We cannot go through life strong and fresh on constant express trains with ten minutes for lunch: we must have quiet hours, secret places of the Most High, times of waiting upon the Lord, when we renew our strength and learn to mount up on wings as eagles, and then come back to run and not be weary, and to walk and not faint.
~ Lettie B. Cowman
It is said that springs of sweet, fresh water pool up amid the saltiness of the oceans, that the fairest Alpine flowers bloom in the wildest and most rugged mountain passes, and that the most magnificent psalms arose from the most profound agonies of the soul.
~ Lettie B. Cowman
I stand upon the mount of God With sunlight in my soul; I hear the storms in vales beneath, I hear the thunders roll. But I am calm with Thee, my God, Beneath these glorious skies; And to the height on which I stand, No storms, nor clouds, can rise. Oh, THIS is life! Oh, this is joy! My God, to find Thee so; Thy face to see, Thy voice to hear, And all Thy love to know. HORATIUS BONAR
~ Lettie B. Cowman
A hero is not fed on sweets, Daily his own heart he eats; Chambers of the great are jails, And head winds right for royal sails. Ralph Waldo Emerson
~ Lettie B. Cowman
To be as immovable as a pillar in the house of our God, is an end for which one would gladly endure all the shakings that may be necessary to bring us there! HANNAH WHITALL SMITH
~ Lettie B. Cowman
Prayer that uses previously unanswered prayers as an excuse for laziness has already ceased to be a prayer of faith. To someone who prays in faith, unanswered prayers are simply the evidence that the answer is much closer. From beginning to end, our Lord's lessons and examples teach us that prayer that is not steadfast and persistent, nor revived and refreshed, and does not gather strength from previous prayers is not the prayer that will triumph. William Arthur
~ Lettie B. Cowman
whatever stream their weeping willow is planted beside. Samuel Dickey Gordon When from my life the old-time joys have vanished,
~ Lettie B. Cowman
Comfort your heart with the fact that the Savior has Himself experienced all the trials He asks you to endure; He would not ask you to pass through them unless He was sure that the paths were not too difficult or strenuous for you
~ Lettie B. Cowman
Poverty, hardship and misfortune have pressed many a life to moral heroism and spiritual greatness. Difficulty challenges energy and perseverance. It calls into activity the strongest qualities of the soul.
~ Lettie B. Cowman
Our God is "the Lord of hosts" (Isa. 10:16 KJV), who can summon unexpected reinforcements at any moment to help His people. Believe that He is between you and your difficulty, and what troubles you will flee before Him, as clouds in the wind. F. B. Meyer
~ Lettie B. Cowman
Most people carry that pain around inside them their whole lives, until they kill the pain by other means, or until it kills them. But you, my friends, you found another way: a way to use the pain. To burn it as fuel, for light and warmth. You have learned to break the world that has tried to break you.
~ Lev Grossman
A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it. Or what did you think that stuff in your chest was? A magician is strong because he hurts more than others. His wound is his strength.
~ Lev Grossman
Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.
~ Lev Grossman
It was funny how just when you thought you knew yourself through and through, you stumbled on a new kind of strength, a fresh reserve of power inside you that you never knew you had, and all at once you found yourself burning a little brighter and hotter than you ever had before.
~ Lev Grossman
Magic doesn't come from talent, it comes from pain.
~ Lev Grossman
Fatigue meant nothing when you actually wanted to suffer.
~ Lev Grossman
A magician is strong because he feels pain. He feels the difference between what the world is and what he would make of it.
~ Lev Grossman
You don't live in a castle full of spiral stairs without getting calves of adamantium.
~ Lev Grossman