Quotes About Strength

He that falls by himself never cries.

In those long and sleepless nights when I'm unable to shake my fears sufficiently, I borrow a biblical epigraph from Dostoyevsky's The Demons: I see my fears being cast into the bodies of wild boars and hogs, and I watch them rush to a cliff where they fall to their deaths.

I have observed that baseball is not unlike war, and when you get right down to it, we batters are the heavy artillery.

we steady thud of wind with lungs that empty moon, fill it back up with shine, feed my feet to pig iron anklets biting flesh where i am link. i will break. bleed, crack. shatter. crush. i'ma smash outta this choir, come up gasping new breath, my name burned clean, made mine

A mother's love is stronger than distance, more powerful than time and can transcend the grave.

Don't make a black woman take off her earrings".

God will prepare a table before you in the presence of your enemies so let them watch you eat.

If it had not been for The Lord on my side I don't know where I would be.

A footstool is only needed when you need to get higher. Let your enemy lift you.

Heartbreak can make you hard! But don't let it make you bitter.

Prayer really can change things.

Root People may be hard to find because they're not trying to be seen. They do their work underground. But quietly and without fanfare, they provide help and support and nourishment. They are happy when I thrive.

The will to live is as strong as the will to love and be loved.

God has not given us a spirit of fear.

The joy of The Lord really is strength.

This book is to help you understand that life is sometimes hard, and you have to laugh your way through it.

Think about yourself as a baby eagle leaving a comfortable nest. If things start becoming difficult while you're taking flight, don't be afraid. Spread your wings and fly. God's got you.

The truth is I had to imagine myself in a better place," I explained. "Because sometimes the nights got so cold and the days

MY CHILDHOOD WAS A STORY of discouragement, belittlement, and unthinkable abuse, and yet I rose above. There was no way I could have found any kind of happiness, hope, or vision if my mother, Maxine, and my aunt Mae hadn't shown

Ordinarily, that would have meant living in anxiety and fear, but my father was a different kind of man when he was around Mae. Instead of boiling up in anger and violence, he was a placid lake. He would even brag about what

Mamma's words settle deep in my heart: God's got it in its banks. He's in control.

But I couldn't get the preacher's words out of my head: "If you pray, God will see you through it. He'll answer your prayers.

Sometimes in life, son, when you pray and you've said and done all you can,

child. My fondest memories of times together were our Sunday mornings in church—just the two of us. When we were in God's sanctuary, we could safely open our hearts and let our souls be free and vulnerable. Church was our refuge, and Jesus, as my mother taught me, was our rock.