Ay, to the proof, as mountains are for winds, that shakes not, though they blow perpetually.

Without this Jihad (fighting) and this steadfastness, we couldn't be able to achieve the liberation of the Gaza Strip.

We salute you for your steadfastness in maintaining the faith of your ancestral tradition, as well as your love for the beautiful, spiritual, cultural and folk traditions in which you reverently persevere. Truly it is out of respect and love for the memory of your forebears that you have clung to your ecclesiastical and ancestral customs.

The devil takes his victories,” the man replied, “wherever men of God lose heart, and leave the field to him.

Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.

So do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.