Quotes about Strength
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion.
- William Faulkner
Too much happens…. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything…. That's what's so terrible.
- William Faulkner
Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.
- William Faulkner
Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.
- William James
Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second.
- William James
Christians find in God a source of moral strength that helps us to lead better lives than those we would have led without Him, still it would be arrogant and ignorant to claim that unbelievers don't often lead good moral lives—in fact, sometimes lives that put ours to shame.
- William Lane Craig
Wherever Christ is not, there is the Wrath of Nature or Nature left to itself and its own tormenting Strength of Life, to feel nothing in itself but the vain, restless Contrariety of its own working Properties.
- William Law
Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace.
- David Brainerd
We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.
- David Brainerd
Nothing seemed to hard for God to perform; nothing to great for me to hope for from Him.
- David Brainerd
A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.
- David Brinkley
When I put God first, God takes care of me and energizes me to do what really needs to be done.
- David Jeremiah