It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.
Every Christian community must realize that not only do the weak need the strong, but also that the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of fellowship.
Then fear will grow pale and fade away, and you will be free, through your faith in our strong and living Savior, Jesus Christ.
Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid, one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.
Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.
I believe we must be strong militarily, but beyond a certain point military strength can become a national weakness.
We must be strong at home if we are going to be strong abroad. We understand that. So we want to be strong at home in our morale or in our spirit, we want to be strong intellectually, in our education, in our economy and, where necessary, militarily.
The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth.
God had no children too weak, but a great many too strong to make use of.
The strong are so stupid.
Perseverance is another word for faith!
The remnants of pain left behind by every strong negative emotion that is not fully faced, accepted, and then let go of join together to form an energy field that lives in the very cells of your body.
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.