Quotes About Strength

Teach us to demand our share of the gold, And forgive us our docility.

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Both sides are too strong for a finish yet. God knows how long it will be at this rate. None of us will ever see its end and children still at school will have to take over.27

They were survivors - there was a quiet strength to the congregation, and they had none of the well-dressed smugness of American churchgoers. All of them had paid for their faith, in ways that money could not measure, and Father Li had paid the most of all.

I learned during the three weeks after my surgery that when you are in rehab, willpower and determination are key.

The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures.

Feelings are wonderful decorations, but they are not a foundation to build on.

Love is strengthened and perfected by suffering. Couples who have had only ease lack depth. True love needs to suffer. "The course of true love never did run smooth." Kindness—mere kindness—cannot tolerate suffering. Love can.

Christ deliberately hides Himself, disguises Himself, gives no physical sign of His Real Presence in the Eucharist, for a crucially important purpose: to test and elicit and strengthen our faith. If we saw miraculous signs in every Eucharist, or if the Eucharistic bread and wine had no taste, like other bread and wine, or even if we felt unique feelings each time we received the Eucharist, our faith would be less strong because it would have sensible or emotional crutches to lean on.

God's Spirit is most powerfully at work in us during emotional troughs, the "dry" times, not the "high" times. All the saints teach that. When the aid of feelings is removed, we can move forward only by heroic effort of our will. This

The family that fights together stays together.

Virtue" used to mean power, might, or energy.)

We could turn this assertion around and state that a decision should involve the strength of our desire for a particular outcome as well as the degree of our belief about the probability of that outcome.

Alistair je nakratko zatvorio o?i i sjetio se ne?ega što mu je otac rekao, re?enice koju kao dijete nikad nije razumio: Tišina je snaga.

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And why do we fall, Master Bruce? So that we might better learn to pick ourselves up.

The only whole heart is the broken heart. But it must be wholly broken

Stubborness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from won't power to will power.

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from.

For we are like olives: only when we are crushed do we yield what is best in us.

Maybe the kids will always be stronger. It's us—the impostors masquerading as protectors—who are unimaginably weak. For

Some persons are made more perfect by what befalls them, as is whatever befalls them can never make them less, can never bring them low, as it might others. --Gina Berriault, The Tea Ceremony

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But he lacked a sense of urgency at key periods, and lacked a firm hand when one was sometimes called for. His greatest strength may have proved his greatest flaw—one that finally sunk John Jacob Astor's West Coast empire. Wilson Price Hunt vastly preferred cooperation to confrontation.