Quotes about Strength

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

The blessed and indestructible being of the divine has no concerns of its own, nor does it make trouble for others. It is not affected by feelings of anger or benevolence, because these are found where there is lack of strength.

How can you change the world? The answer: find seven women, turn them loose, and watch Satan tremble in their presence."

When I consider the seven women I chose, I see that most of them were great for reasons that derive precisely from their being women, not in spite of it; and what made them great has nothing to do with their being measured against or competing with men. In other words, their accomplishments are not gender-neutral but are rooted in their singularity as women.

Do the right thing, seek the truth, defend the weak, live courageous lives.

May God in his mercy lead us through these times; but above all, may he lead us to himself...

Take all we have, only give us peace'? In God's name…let us at least make one effort; and if we must fall, let us fall like men!

A person's strength comes solely from being united with the will of God.

When it was all over, Pitt had overwhelmingly won the House of Commons, and as politically weak as he was before the election, he was now strong. It was an historic and glorious reversal, and little Wilberforce was at the very center of it all.

As long as we let the word be our only armor we can look confidently into the future.

At the center were numerous hospital and care facilities, including orphanages. Bonhoeffer had never seen anything like it. It was the antithesis of the Nietzschean worldview that exalted power and strength. It was the gospel made visible, a fairy-tale landscape of grace, where the weak and helpless were cared for in a palpably Christian atmosphere.