Quotes About Strength

Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.

What I write about is not war but the courage of man.

la pregunta no formulada seguía siendo: ¿cuánto tiempo más debían resistir? En aquellos momentos, en las primeras horas del domingo 24 de septiembre, después de ocho días de batalla, se calculaban las fuerzas de Urquhart en menos de 2.500 hombres. Y para todos ellos solamente había una pregunta: ¿cuándo llegarán las fuerzas de Monty?

The gods are on the side of the stronger.

Business after all is a form of warfare; you bring all your available weapons to bear. If you don't you're a fool. ("Jane Brown's Body")

But that's the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind's made up, the trembling and aimless walking stops, and he can look doom in the face without flinching. ("Jane Brown's Body")

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

There is no pit so deep that God's love is not deeper still.

Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn't empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.

Do you know what hurts so very much? It's love. Love is the strongest force in the world, and when it is blocked that means pain. There are two things we can do when this happens. We can kill that love so that it stops hurting. But then of course part of us dies, too. Or we can ask God to open up another route for that love to travel.

You can never learn that Christ is all you need, until Christ is all you have.

What wings are to a bird, and sails to a ship, so is prayer to the soul.

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.

It is not my ability, but my response to God's ability, that counts.

when we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus

God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things....In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strenght or our brains but simply because He has made us.

Father sat down on the edge of the narrow bed. "Corrie," he began gently, "when you and I go to Amsterdam-when do I give you your ticket?" I sniffed a few times, considering this. "Why, just before we get on the train." "Exactly. And our wise Father in heaven knows when we're going to need things, too. Don't run out ahead of Him, Corrie. When the time comes that some of us will have to die, you will look into your heart and find the strength you need-just in time.

joy runs deeper than despair.

The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day

No pit is so deep that God is not deeper still

You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have.

If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.

No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.