Quotes About Strength

We are not so High or strong as the most beautiful trees, but our kindly habits and attitude can be so powerful as well. Jan Jansen

Be happy our health is the Key to Many Doors

The Mirrow will always win from the Shadow.

Maybe iT Goes Sometimes not so fast in nature, but it show us every time again that it never will give up and how powerful it is.

ITS Not Easy to Break Someone that is Satified with what They Have. Jan Jansen

The history of America is the history of overcoming hardships and that was never more true than during World War II.

The point, Nobu told Sumi, was to find some disciplined way to endure suffering without losing one's sense of identity, dignity, and purpose.

She reminded Sumi of the Japanese custom of gaman. Nobu spoke the ancient word as a charge to her daughter: to have gaman was to endure the unbearable with dignity and forbearance.

As they bore witness to their experiences behind barbed wire in Crystal City and to their brutal transport into war in Germany and Japan, the former internees did not ask why they were made to suffer but how could suffering be endured. The

The second phrase was gaman, which means to find some physical practice such as meditation, calligraphy, or the making of art that would help one persevere in the face of what seemed unbearable.

I began to tell myself that if I'd survived Bergen-Belsen, I could survive anything," said Irene. "I tried to focus not on what I'd lost, but what I had to gain. It was a struggle." In

Boldly! That was the great and powerful key. Preach boldly! Love boldly! Jog boldly! And most crucial of all, do not approach God whining or begging, but boldly—as a child of the King. "I

Father, he prayed silently, thank you for sending this boy into my life. Thank you for the joy and the sorrow he brings. Be with him always, to surround him with right influences, and when tests of any kind must come, give him wisdom and strength to act according to your will. Look over his mother, also, and the other children, wherever they are. Feed and clothe them, keep them from harm, and bring them one day into a full relationship with your Son.

Faith by its very nature must be tried... what God does with our faith must be something like workouts. He sees it to that our faith gets mushed and pulled, stretched and pounded, taken to it's limits so its limits can expand... If it doesn't get exercised, it becomes like a weak muscle that fails us when we need it.

She thought that one of the hardest parts of marriage was being loving when both partners were exhausted or wounded at the same time. When you had the least strength, that's when you had to dig beyond your limits and grab whatever could be found and give it away.

Her mom said they were to pray for the people her dad and his colleagues were treating, pray for his sound health and safekeeping, and trust God in everything. She knew such wisdom in her head, but complete trust was, as her mother said, 'yet to build a station in her heart and erect its flag of undisputed possession.

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13

one who possessed Beauty without Vanity,"' he said aloud to Barnabas. '"Strength without Insolence, / Courage without Ferocity, / And all the virtues of Man without his Vices.

Deep in their roots,' Roethke had said, 'all flowers keep the light.

Though we don't do it often enough, it's easy to have a grateful heart for food and shelter, love and hope, health and peace. But what about the hard stuff, the stuff that darkens your world and wounds you to the quick? Just what is this everything business? "It's the hook. It's the key. Everything is the word on which this whole powerful command stands and has its being.

For God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind," he read aloud from Paul's second letter to Timothy.

Love God, be strong, be safe, be happy.

Thank you for the joy and the sorrow he brings. Be with him always, to surround him with right influences, and when tests of any kind must come, give him wisdom and strength to act according to your will. Look over his mother, also, and the other children, wherever they are. Feed and clothe them, keep them from harm, and bring them one day into a full relationship with your Son.

Lord, if this is Your answer, then You've got to help me do this thing. I know how You feel about fear, and I agree. But I'm scared stiff and You know it, and I'rn needing a generous hand-out of grace.