Quotes about Strength
My mind is steadfastly fixed, and it is grounded in Christ."(2) If thus it were with me, the fear of man should not so easily tempt me, nor the arrows of words move me.
— Thomas a Kempis
Then enduring patience shall have more might than all the power of the world. Then simple obedience shall be more highly exalted than all worldly wisdom.
— Thomas a Kempis
Therefore let not thy heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
— Thomas a Kempis
Who is forced to struggle more than he who tries to master himself? This ought to be our purpose, then: to conquer self, to become stronger each day, to advance in virtue.
— Thomas a Kempis
For when the grace of God cometh to a man, then he becometh able to do all things, and when it departeth then he will be poor and weak and given up unto troubles. In these thou art not to be cast down nor to despair, but to rest with calm mind on the will of God, and to bear all things which come upon thee unto the praise of Jesus Christ; for after winter cometh summer, after night returneth day, after the tempest a great calm.
— Thomas a Kempis
All of us are weak and frail; hold thou no man more frail than thyself.
— Thomas a Kempis
Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of its trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse for impossibility, for it thinks all things are lawful for itself and all things are possible.
— Thomas a Kempis
Sin is the strength of death and the death of strength.
— Thomas Adams
The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The act that anything evil puts forth is due to the strength of goodness, but a deficient goodness. For if there were nothing of good there, neither would there be any being, nor any action: again, if the goodness were not deficient, neither would there be any evil.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Against this defect man was provided with a remedy in the tree of life; for its effect was to strengthen the force of the species against the weakness resulting from the admixture of extraneous nutriment.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
I had bad back injuries; two bulging discs and a broken fragment off a disc, all in my sciatic nerve.
— Alexander Volkanovski