Do you force your kids to pay attention to what’s going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.
As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles.
Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.
The average woman sees only the weak points in a strong man, and the good points in a weak one.
It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.
I would rather have a big burden and a strong back, than a weak back and a caddy to carry life’s luggage.
It is the weak man who urges compromise – never the strong man.
In a state of nature, the weakest go to the wall; in a state of over-refinement, both the weak and the strong go to the gutter.
Strong men can always afford to be gentle. Only the weak are intent on giving as good as they get.
Men whose lives are doubtful want a strong government and a hot religion.
One great, strong, unselfish soul in every community could actually redeem the world.
I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination.
Choices will continually be necessary and – let us not forget – possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.
The world cries for men who are strong; strong in conviction, strong to lead, to stand, to suffer.
Our future may look fearfully intimidating, yet we can look up to the Engineer of the Universe, confident that nothing escapes His attention or slips out of the control of those strong hands.
Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!
A child’s kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.
But the child’s sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!
In your patience ye are strong.