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Strength (n.) apart ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠from God is strength without strength, as loving without loving God is loving without love, for God is love.

Strength (n.) like ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠iron is most wonderful not when it deals harshly with the hardest thing, but when it deals gently with the weakest.

Strength (n.) can ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠be a sickness: he was not too weak to bear actuality but too strong, and the evil lay in that.

Strength (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠never lacking in a man, only wasted: barely a third applied in the right place, and more than two-thirds against himself.

Strength (n.) belongs ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not to the love that says “If you will not love me, I will hate you” but to the one that says “Even if you hate me I shall continue to love you.”

Strength (n.) that ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠squeezes sweat from an iron gauntlet may lack the strength to hold a sparrow rightly; God's omnipotence is as great in the almighty moderation that lets a blade of grass grow in its season.