Quotes About Strength

D'après toi, pourquoi es-tu ici, Oskar ? - Je suis ici, docteur, parce que maman est inquiète que la vie me mette devant des difficultés insurmontables. - Est-ce qu'elle a raison de s'inquiéter ? - Pas vraiment. La vie est une difficulté insurmontable.

Look, I'm not always right. I realize that. But I'm always strong.

Julia hated to see nervous children. She wanted to go to her, give her an inspirational talk—explain that life changes, and what is weak becomes strong, and what is a dream becomes a reality that requires a new dream.

If there is no love in the world, we will make a new world, and we will give it heavy walls.

She was the tree and also the river flowing away from the tree, 'There are worse things,' she said, 'worse than being like us. Look, at least we're alive,' I could see that she wanted those last words back, but the current was too strong.

Brod was afraid any tears of her own would cause the walls of the old house to give way, so she sandbagged them behind her eyes, exiled them to someplace deeper, safer.

Seeing your own smallness is called insight Honoring your own tenderness is called strength

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.

His features are strong and masculine, with an Austrian lip and arched nose, his complexion olive, his countenance erect, his body and limbs well proportioned, all his motions graceful, and his deportment majestic. He

It is observed, that the red haired of both sexes are more libidinous and mischievous than the rest, whom yet they much exceed in strength and activity.

There is this fine line between presenting to You all of my weakness and thinking that it can't be done. In Your strength, I find my own.

Here in the sub-Sahara, it seemed that the weaker people were, the harder they had to lean on God - and the harder they leaned on him, the greater their joy.

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependency on Christ for strength each day. The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

Suffering doesn't teach you about yourself from a textbook—it teaches you from experience. It empties you so that by faith you can be filled with His Spirit.

When suffering hits us broadside, it's bound to shake our faith a little—just as if we were driving across a high bridge in a compact car and got hit by a great gust of wind. You have to make sure you have both hands on the wheel! But trials are also meant to waken us to the truth of Daniel 11:32 (ESV), where it says, "The people who know their God shall stand firm and take action.

The truth is, in this world it's a 100 percent guarantee that we will suffer. But at the same time, Jesus Christ is 100 percent certain to meet us, encourage us, comfort us, grace us with strength and perseverance, and yes, even restore joy in our lives. Your Savior is 100 percent certain to be with you through every challenge.

We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air, look up into the depths of the sky, or out upon the wideness of the sea, or on the strength of the hills that is His also; or, if bound in the body, go forth in the spirit; spirit is not bound. Give Him time and, as surely as dawn follows night, there will break upon the heart a sense of certainty that cannot be shaken. —Amy Carmichael

They say the Lord never gives us more than we can bear. This is only true of money and cleavage.

Vestidos de farrapos, sujos, semiesfomeados, agressivos, soltando palavrões e fumando pontas de cigarro, eram, em verdade, os donos da cidade, os que a conheciam totalmente, os que totalmente a amavam, os seus poetas.

Habrá que aprender que la fortaleza no se mide por la posibilidad de conseguir un resultado inmediato, sino por la confianza en el propio potencial de lograrlo, cuando sea el momento adecuado.

Lo más importante en el proceso de un duelo es aprender a enfrentarse con la ausencia de aquello que no está, es tolerar la impotencia frente a lo que se quebró, es hacerse fuerte para soportar la conciencia de todo lo que no pudo ser; ésta es la esencia del dolor que subyace a una pérdida y más allá de cualquier comprensible y necesaria catarsis, no se puede aliviar reclamando justicia, ni se puede sanar consiguiendo condena.

Porque estar en pareja implica no sólo la capacidad de albergar la dulzura del amor, sino también la capacidad de enfrentar juntos las tormentas

Aprendí, muy pequeña que la vida tiene un lado oscuro, y que ése me había tocado a mi

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.