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The true test of your strength is not by merely winning all of your life's battles. When you go through read more
The true test of your strength is not by merely winning all of your life's battles. When you go through tough circumstances and seeing every reason to quit but you just won't, that is strength!
In that day's feats,
When he might act the woman in the scene,
He prov'd best man read more
In that day's feats,
When he might act the woman in the scene,
He prov'd best man i' th' field, and for his meed
Was brow-bound with the oak.
Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through
ordeal.
Robust grass endures mighty winds; loyal ministers emerge through
ordeal.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. read more
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men! Do no pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for power equal to your tasks.
Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength, not my weakness.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength, but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength read more
For the Egyptians shall help in vain, and to no purpose:
therefore have I cried concerning this, Their strength is to sit
still.
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a
three-fold cord is not quickly broken.
And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a
three-fold cord is not quickly broken.