Quotes About Strength

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.

The fear of being vulnerable prompts me into bringing myself forward.

True soldiers are not recognized by their victories, but after their defeats.' His

Today,' he wrote to the Führer, 'I no longer believe in a rapprochement. Britain does not want a Germany of superior strength in the offing as a permanent threat to her islands. That is why she will fight.

Conference, April 1989.) You may wish to read his

2 Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord JEHOVAH [Jesus Christ] is my strength and my song: he also is become my salvation.

Anyone too undisciplined, too self-righteous or too self-centered to live in the world as it is has a tendency to idealize a world which ought to be. But no matter what political or religious direction such idealists choose, their visions always share one telling characteristic: in their utopias, heavens or brave new worlds, their greatest personal weakness suddenly appears to be a strength.

When I put God first, God takes care of me and energizes me to do what really needs to be done.

We can face whatever circumstances await us with courage if we just reflect on God's faithfulness and place our confidence in His great power and loving purpose for our lives.

Dwayne understood that his brother was not meant for this place, that some people were born too soft to bear the teeth of this world. There was no place for weakness in a world like this. Survival was so often a matter of meanness.

An essential part of being truly apostolic is to seek revival, by which we mean a continual atmosphere of restoration and renewal that results in spiritual life, health, strength, and vigor.

The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a wounded spirit who can bear?

You have to cry your own tears because no one can do it for you.

Even if it's dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do

Are you by any chance acquainted with the words 'steel toe'? Or do the words 'permanent dent' mean anything to you?" My locker door is not intimidated. "My grandfather was a vault at Fort Knox, and if you try to dent me with a kick you will only tear some ligament that will never mend.

Shed stallion stands in surf gazing out to sea. So large. So noble. Once so powerful. Now completely defeated and alone.

Be swift as the wind, silent as the forest, fierce as fire, steady as a mountain.

You have no fear?" "I don't let it make my decisions for me.

Just think if life could be like that sometimes... If joy could express itself with the same force as pain.

They locked her up and kept trying to break her. But she kept coming back, and do you know what I think?" "No." "She got stronger each time. She became positively lethal.

It strengthened his long-held conviction that one must never underestimate anyone or cling to preconceived ideas.

If joy could express itself with the same force as pain,

silence and calm are more intimidating than any outburst,

They locked her up and kept trying to break her. But she kept coming back, and do you know what I think?" "No." "She got stronger each time.