Quotes About Strength

OUR FIRST ACT AS FREE MEN was to throw ourselves onto the provisions. That's all we thought about. No thought of revenge, or of parents. Only of bread. And

He explained to me, with great emphasis, that every question possessed a power that was lost in the answer …

For us it meant true equality: nakedness. We trembled in the cold. A

Yes, man is stronger, greater than God. When Adam and Eve deceived You, You chased them from paradise. When You were displeased by Noah's generation, You brought down the Flood. When Sodom lost Your favor, You caused the heavens to rain down fire and damnation. But look at these men whom You have betrayed, allowing them to be tortured, slaughtered, gassed, and burned, what do they do? They pray before You! They praise Your name!

This was the first story I had ever heard in which the Jews were not the ones to be afraid. Until this moment I had believed that the mission of the Jews was to represent the trembling of history rather than the wind which made it tremble

All right, I told myself. I'll also have to learn to eat. And to love. You can learn anything.

Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him, he liked to say. Therein lies true dialogue. Man asks and God replies. But we don't understand His replies. We cannot under-stand them. Because they dwell in the depths of our souls and re-main there until we die. The real answers, Eliezer, you will find only within yourself. And why do you pray, Moishe? I asked him. I pray to the God within me for the strength to ask Him the real questions.

We were the masters of nature, the masters of the world. We had transcended everything—death, fatigue, our natural needs. We were stronger than cold and hunger, stronger than the guns and the desire to die, doomed and rootless, nothing but numbers, we were the only men on earth.

The only person who wants the soldier to live more than the soldier himself is the soldier's mother. Kate

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When we become sorry for ourselves we make our misfortunes harder to bear, because we lose courage and can't think without bias.

Luckily Rollan was more unflappable. He stepped forward, bravely brandishing his long dagger, however pathetic it looked compared to the teeth of Cabaro.

You have to learn when to ignore suffering so that you're strong enough to fight it when the time is right.

I took it for granted that there must be a few men left in the world who had that kind of strength. I assumed that those men would also be looking for women with principle. I did not want to be among the marked-down goods on the bargain table, cheap because they'd been pawed over. Crowds collect there. It is only the few who will pay full price. You get what you pay for.

The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.

Cruelty and wrong are not the greatest forces in the world. There is nothing eternal in them. Only love is eternal.

The deepest things that I have learned in my own life have come from the deepest suffering. And out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires have come the deepest things that I know about God.

Are we so childish (I do not say childlike) as to think that a God who could scheme a Jesus-plan would lead poor pilgrims into situations they could not bear?

so the woman who accepts the limitations of womanhood finds in those very limitations her gifts...

Whatever dark tunnel we may be called upon to travel through, God has been there.

The secret is Christ in me, not in a different set of circumstances.

You yourself will be given light in exchange for pouring yourself out for the hungry; you yourself will get guidance, the satisfaction of your longings, and strength, when you pour yourself out, when you make the satisfaction of somebody else's desire your own concern;

Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.

The same God who urges us to obey also furnishes the desire as well as the strength to do so. Our part is to exercise our wills.