Quotes about Strength

I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.

Had I never loved, I never would have been unhappy; but I turn to Him who can save, and if His wisdom does not will my expected union, I know He will give me strength to bear my lot.

She had the grit to pray for Judus if she took the notion—there warn't no back-down to her, I judge.

Not a reproach passed her lips. She was too great for that - she was Joan of Arc; and when that is said, all is said.

Put on all the armor of the Lord. Not just the pretty stuff.

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.

Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait.

Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent

One's dignity may be assaulted, vandalized, cruelly mocked, but it an never be taken away unless it is surrendered.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

One of the greatest problems of history is that the concepts of love and power are usually contrasted as polar opposites. Love is identified with a resignation of power and power with a denial of love. What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive and that love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice. Justice at its best is love correcting everything that stands against love.

This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there.