Quotes about Strength

Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power.

We human beings can survive the most difficult of circumstances if we are not forced to stand alone.

I know that Israel does not stand alone. I know that America stands with Israel.

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

But grief is not a force and has no power to hold. You only bear it. Love is what carries you, for it is always there, even in the dark, or most in the dark, but shining out at times like gold stitches in a piece of embroidery.

I know that I have life only insofar as I have love. I have no love except it come from Thee. Help me, please, to carry this candle against the wind.

And so how was a human to pray? I didn't know, and yet I prayed. I prayed the terrible prayer: "Thy will be done." Having so prayed, I prayed for strength. That seemed reasonable and right enough. As did praying for forgiveness and the grace to forgive. I prayed unreasonably, foolishly, hopelessly, that everybody in Port William might be blessed and happy—the ones I loved and the ones I did not. I prayed my gratitude

But grief and griever alike endure.

And so how was a human to pray? I didn't know, and yet I prayed. I prayed the terrible prayer: "Thy will be done." Having so prayed, I prayed for strength. That seemed reasonable and right enough. As did praying for forgiveness and the grace to forgive. I prayed unreasonably, foolishly, hopelessly, that everybody in Port William might be blessed and happy—the ones I loved and the ones I did not. I prayed my gratitude. The

Let the fragments of love be reassembled in you. Only then will you have true courage. Hayden Carruth

After you have said "thy will be done," what more can be said? And where do you find the strength to pray "thy will be done" after you see what it means?