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“Finishing a painting demands a heart of steel: everything requires a decision, and I find difficulties where I least expect them... It is at such moments that one fully realizes one's own weaknesses.”

Heart Moments Realizing Decision Painting Demand Weakness Difficulty Steel Finishing

Author:Eugene Delacroix

“I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.”

Believe Christian Jesus I Believe Christ Disease Weakness Jesus Christ Difficulty I Believe In Heal Remove Resolve

Author:Norman Vincent Peale

“Patience is only one faculty; earnestness the devotion of all the faculties. Earnestness is the cause of patience; it gives endurance, overcomes pain, strengthens weakness, braves dangers, sustains hope, makes light of difficulties, and lessens the sense of weariness in overcoming them.”

Giving Light Pain Causes Danger Weakness Overcoming Difficulty Brave Devotion Endurance Faculty Weariness Earnestness Overcoming Pain

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Let the church come to God in the strength of a perfect weakness, in the power of a felt helplessness and a child-like confidence, and then, either she has no strength, and has no right to be, or she has a strength that is infinite. Then and thus, will she stretch out the rod over the seas of difficulty that lie before her, and the waters shall divide, and she shall pass through, and sing the song of deliverance.”

Children Lying Song Felt Water Church Perfect Sea Weakness Difficulty Infinite Divides Helplessness Deliverance

Book:Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

Source: Strength and beauty: A baccalaureate sermon, delivered at Williamstown, Ms. August 17, 1851

“He that resolves upon any great and good end, has, by that very resolution, scaled the chief barrier to it. He will find such resolution removing difficulties, searching out or making means, giving courage for despondency, and strength for weakness, and like the star to the wise men of old, ever guiding him nearer and nearer to perfection.”

Men Giving Mean Ends Stars Wise Weakness Perfection Difficulty Chiefs Barriers Resolve Resolution Despondency

Book:The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Source: The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

“We live in a society where we're not taught how to deal with our weaknesses and frailties as human beings. We're not taught how to speak to our difficulties and challenges. We're taught the Pythagorean theorem and chemistry and biology and history. We're not taught anger management. We're not taught dissolution of fear and how to process shame and guilt. I've never in my life ever used the Pythagorean theorem!”

“The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind.”

Mind Violence Weakness Difficulty Meetings Arise

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.”

Quality Weakness Difficulty

Book:Community and Growth

Source: Community and Growth

“The response man has the greatest difficulty in tolerating is pity, especially when he warrants it. Hatred is a tonic, it makes one live, it inspires vengeance, but pity kills, it makes our weakness weaker.”

Men Hate Inspire Weakness Hatred Difficulty Response Pity Despise Vengeance Warrants

Author:Honore de Balzac

“Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.”

Men World Feelings Spiritual Spirituality Belief Natural Modern Dangerous Loneliness Illusion Weakness Difficulty Separation Emptiness Natural World Feeling Lonely Modern Man

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“Everything is a grace, everything is the direct effect of our Father's love - difficulties, contradictions, humiliations, all the soul's miseries, her burdens, her needs - everything, because through them, she learns humility, realizes her weakness. Everything is a grace because everything is God's gift. Whatever be the character of life or its unexpected events - to the heart that loves, all is well.”