Concentration is the secret of strength.

Our strength grows out of our weakness

Our strength grows out of our weaknesses

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands. This can only be by his preferring truth to his past apprehension of truth; and his alert acceptance of it, from whatever quarter; the intrepid conviction that his laws, his relations to society, his Christianity, his world may at any time be superseded and decease.

The progress of religion is steadily to its identity with morals. Strength enters just as much as the moral element prevails.