Quotes about Strength

Augustine says that you don't understand a nation by the throw weight of its military or the strength of its research universities or the size of its population, but by looking at what it loves in common. To assess a nation, you look at the health and strength of its ideals. And there's no question that the common love in America is freedom.

Just as we develop our physical muscles through overcoming opposition - such as lifting weights - we develop our character muscles by overcoming challenges and adversity.

When my father died, the money he left us would have dried up within a year were it not for my mother... We might very well have ended up on welfare.

'Captain Marvel,' whereby the steel trap is challenged, where the hero is a heroine, where the most powerful person who has the welfare of the future of the human race is a woman. What else can it be? Because that was the role of my mother when I was a kid.

The furnace of affliction produces refinement, in states as well as individuals.

You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.

Fasting, coupled with mighty prayer, is powerful.

I pray to start my day and finish it in prayer.

I really believe in prayer.

The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers.

The abuse of faith has to be resisted precisely.

If you keep feeling a point that has been sharpened, the point cannot long preserve its sharpness.