Quotes about Strength
A champion without his belt is like a knight without his sword. I've got to have it.
— Jon Jones
I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword.
— Mary Harris Jones
If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).
— Richard Baxter
The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).
— Richard Baxter
what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!
— Richard Baxter
I know necessity may cause the Church to tolerate the weak; but woe to us if we tolerate and indulge our own weakness.
— Richard Baxter
is the man who trusts in man And makes hflesh his 2strength, Whose heart departs from the LORD. 6For he shall be ilike a shrub in the desert, And jshall not see when good comes, But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, kIn a salt land which is not inhabited.
— Richard Blackaby
Only hour by hour gratitude is strong enough to overcome all temptations to resentment.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
Jesus praised faith and trust — even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.
— Fr. Richard Rohr