Quotes About Strength

When we're afraid, our Father spots us and makes sure we can lift the load we're carrying. He grips our hand and helps us push through whatever we face. Because God is with us, we have nothing to fear.

But no, your mind is a battlefield, and the battle for your life is always won or lost in your mind.

You have the same power, faith, and courage available to you through Christ. Don't forget, just like David, you are a giant-slayer.

Paul wrote these words: "I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through [Christ] who gives me strength" (Phil. 4:12–13).

Today I get to experience God's strength when I am weak. He gives me everything I need to do what he's called me to do. Rather than a busy, bad day, I'm going to have a positive, productive one.

he made us to be warriors so that we'd fight our fears, learn from our mistakes, and live to fight another day.

Accountability requires the internal strength of honesty. We have to be strong enough to hear the honest questions and answer them honestly. We have to be strong enough to ask honest questions and hear honest answers, reacting appropriately and with grace and respect. Without honesty, there is no accountability, pure and simple.

When you go to a dogfight, it's always good to bring the meanest bitch.

In my life, I have been kicked by horses and bitten by them. I've been stepped on, crushed against gates, and thrown to the ground, but I have also been nuzzled, rubbed against, carried by, nickered at, and warmed by the great beasts. I thought of all the horses I'd known and couldn't think of a bad one.

don't care how big they are, boys; they can't do anything if you get 'em up off the ground.

I was exercising by doing twelve-ounce curls in an attempt to balance my electrolytes.

If you pull it, use it, if you use it, use it to kill.

depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer. —Albert Camus

and in that is their power, the strength of many—chaos.

After the war, Lucian had drifted back to Wyoming and then back to Absaroka County. He then drifted into being sheriff on the strength of his being the toughest piece of gristle in four states.

Ozzie's head remained

I haven't figured out how to turn it on, but when I do I'm going to be hell on wheels.

We do everything we can to protect the people we love, whatever it takes, and it's not enough. Unlike bone, once that illusionary magic circle is broken, it can never be completely repaired, and it is not stronger at the break.

A ver nire aitaren etxea defendituko dut, otsoen kontra.

Sometimes when there aren't any other options you should just stay crazy.

I look up at the clear and beautiful gray eyes, at the winning smile of youthful invincibility, at someone far more courageous and determined than I, and sometimes I make it through the entire story. But most of the time, I don't.

the battlecruiser HMS Hood, which at 860 feet was the pride of the fleet. While her eight 15-inch guns were the largest then afloat, her Achilles' heel was her relatively thin armor, which made her more vulnerable than any battleship.

Long distance is hard. You have to trust that as you each change on your own, your relationship will also change along with you. It takes hope, good humor, and idealism. It takes a massive dose of courage to protect the relationship at all odds. It is hard, but worth it. You'll both be stronger as a result.

You would do well to consider this: all men may be brought to evil by what they hold most important, although few are ever made to realize this. For you, however, this truth will henceforth be inescapable, and will ever be a burden. Yet, as with all knowledge, it may also be a source of strength. Face it, use it, and it will make you far greater than any of those who remain in happy ignorance.