#strength

Hannah's faith was the answer to her stress. And, through that faith, she found peace, even though her life remained far from peaceful. Her faith resulted in God working on her behalf. Hannah did not find peace because she left a stressful situation – she found peace because she had learned to depend on God’s strength to rise above her stress. ↗

— Tracie Miles

#faith #god-s-strength #hannah #peace #stress

You shall Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength." ~ Deuteronomy 6:5 ↗

— Anonymous

#heart #love #soul #strength #the-holy-bible

Some had come to look upon death as a mercy. Death meant warmth. Death was light. Life was cruel, cold, heavy and dark. Life was pain. Death was deliverance, and many would welcome it. Others doggedly clung to life and willed themselves to walk on. ↗

— Sage Steadman

#life-and-death #perseverance #death

They looked to each other for support, for strength, and at times, motivation, to remember why and for whom they lived. ↗

— Sage Steadman

#family #life #love #motivation #strength-through-adversity

Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men. ↗

— Naomi Ragen

#men

If you saw Atlas, the giant who holds the world on his shoulders, if you saw that he stood, blood running down his chest, his knees buckling, his arms trembling but still trying to hold the world aloft with the last of his strength, and the greater his effort the heavier the world bore down upon his shoulders - What would you tell him?" I…don't know. What…could he do? What would you tell him?" To shrug. ↗

— Ayn Rand

#strength

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#strength

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower; We will grieve not, rather find Strength in what remains behind; In the primal sympathy Which having been must ever be... ↗

— William Wordsworth

#hope #poetry #strength #strength

one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry. ↗

— Ntozake Shange

#apology #forgiveness #independance #strength #sympathy

Bullying builds character like nuclear waste creates superheroes. It's a rare occurrence and often does much more damage than endowment. ↗

— Zack W. Van

#bullying #strength #truthful #weakness #adversity