Quotes About Strength

It's how we handle those bad things that measures our worth.

Sometimes you had to fight the bullies, even if they masqueraded in the form of family.

But God doesn't make bad things happen or necessarily stop them from happening. What He does do is give us strength to understand and persevere, learn from and through the tragedy.

The man possessed a communal strength of body and soul, coupled with endless compassion and a desire to help the less fortunate of mind and spirit. In other words, the man was a saint.

The Lord only gives us what we can handle and

To have character is to be big enough to take life on.

Always man needs woman for his friend. He needs her clearer vision, her subtler insight, her softer thought, her winged soul, her pure and tender heart. Always woman needs man to be her friend. She needs the vigor of his purpose, the ardor of his will, his calmer judgment, his braver force of action, his reverence and his devotion.

And they rode for home. His ice had thawed. Her fire had calmed. They'd thrived alone, but there'd been no happiness. Together they were better, stronger, wiser, more faithful. Together they'd forged their fire and ice into the warmth of true love.

Some days Ursula could barely bring herself to talk for the weight of all her fears, but she could always sing.

Let's go,' he said, 'I'll need something to lean on, and you look like you'd make a good crutch.

And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from Gods love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrownot even the powers of hell can separate us from Gods love.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Hearts will never be made practical until they are made unbreakable.

Lovers should be as Fire and Air; fire must have air to breath and air gets it's true power from fire's heat .

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.

Love is louder than the pressure to be perfect.

But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble.

I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

When I say, "I love you," it's not because I want you or because I can't have you. It has nothing to do with me. I love what you are, what you do, how you try. I've seen your kindness and your strength. I've seen the best and the worst of you. And I understand with perfect clarity exactly what you are. You're a hell of a woman.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

The heart is the only broken instrument that works.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Seven days without love makes one weak.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.