god quotes about strength

I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it. ~George Bernard Shaw



God's illumined promise. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (rainbow)



Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



I knew a man who once said, "death smiles at us all; all a man can do is smile back." ~From the movie Gladiator



Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's in walking distance. ~Author Unknown



I have an idea that the phrase "weaker sex" was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm. ~Ogden Nash



The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say. ~Mark Twain



We speak little if not egged on by vanity. ~Fran�ois de la Rochefoucauld



One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ~Booker T. Washington



The new year begins in a snow-storm of white vows. ~George William Curtis



Whether you think you can or think you can't - you are right. ~Henry Ford



I dream of hiking into my old age. ~Marlyn Doan



I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do. They go wandering forth in all directions with every wind, going and coming like ourselves, traveling with us around the sun two million miles a day, and through space heaven knows how fast and far! ~John Muir



Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the Devil; for which reason I have, long since, as good as renounced it. ~Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus, Book II, chapter 4



A birth control pill for men, that's fair. It makes more sense to take the bullets out of the gun than to wear a bulletproof vest. ~Author Unknown



Instead of being a time of unusual behavior, Christmas is perhaps the only time in the year when people can obey their natural impulses and express their true sentiments without feeling self-conscious and, perhaps, foolish. Christmas, in short, is about the only chance a man has to be himself. ~Francis C. Farley



Love means nothing in tennis, but it's everything in life. ~Author Unknown



When you're feeling your worst, that's when you get to know yourself the best. ~Leslie Grossman



Why has slamming a ball with a racquet become so obsessive a pleasure for so many of us? It seems clear to me that a primary attraction of the sport is the opportunity it gives to release aggression physically without being arrested for felonious assault. ~Nat Hentoff



If the light in your life has changed to yellow, I recommend you floor it. It's safer than the alternative. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com