Quotes About Strength

It's pretty impossible to hurt what Death protects.

Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.

Kill us today or you'll have to kill us tomorrow.

I know death follows me, but I murder him first.

He'd fought hard, Lida told me, as if there was another way to fight.

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard.

She wanted to collapse and be rescued, and she wanted to be heroic and prevail, and she seemed to hate him most for reminding her, merely by taking it all in, that she could manage neither.

Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons.

She's a fighter. She's fine. She's made tremendous strides." True—all the while he has been stoically enduring it she has made tremendous strides by finding it unendurable, by being devastated by it, destroyed by it, and then by denuding herself of it. She doesn't resist the blows the way he does; she receives the blows, falls apart, and when she gets herself up again, decides to make herself over.

Había dos clases de hombres fuertes: los que eran como tío Monty y Abr Steinhem. , despiadados en su afán de ganar dinero, y los que eran como mi padre, implacablemente obedientes a su idea del juego limpio.

Sabbath had the power, and he knew it, of being no one with anything much to lose.

The worst of being unbearably alone was that you had to bear it—either that or you were sunk.

Porque é em momentos assim que amamos as pessoas, quando as vemos decididas a enfrentar o pior. Não corajosas. Não heróicas. Simplesmente decididas.

That is about the strongest bond in the world, the mother and the little boy. There couldn't be anything stronger.

Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

God does not seem impressed by size or power or wealth. Faith is what he wants, and the heroes who emerge are heroes of faith, not strength or wealth.

But the strength and beauty of age is spiritual. We gradually lose the strength and beauty that is temporary so we'll be sure to concentrate on the strength and beauty which is forever.

For us who are Christians, the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is proof positive that love is stronger than hate, that life is stronger than death, that light is stronger than darkness, that laughter and joy, and compassion and gentleness and truth, all these are so much stronger than their ghastly counterparts.

But the Lord say he won't put more on us than we can stand. If we can't take it, he'll be right there beside us giving stren'th we didn't know we had.

Paul says that Spirit lives inside us, detecting needs we cannot articulate and expressing them in a language we cannot comprehend. When we don't know what to pray, he fills in the blanks. Evidently, it is our very helplessness that God, too, delights in. Our weakness gives opportunity for his strength.

I could no more pray the Our Father, I could no longer call myself a Christian, if I refuse to forgive. Humanly speaking, I cannot do it, but God will give us his strength!

Self-sufficiency which first reared its head in the Garden of Eden, is the most fatal sin because it pulls us as if by a magnet that their lack of self-sufficiency is obvious to them every day. They must turn somewhere for strength, and sometimes they go through life relying on their natural gifts. But there's a chance, just a chance, that people who lack such natural advantages may cry out to God in their time of need.

The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure