Quotes about Resolve

And everything else in your life will be held in temporary suspension until you make a decision.

Some of us get played out in the first ten yards, because God compels us to go where we cannot see the way, and we say—"I will wait till I get nearer the big crisis." If we do not do the running steadily in the little ways, we shall do nothing in the crisis.

Get on your feet or die.

If I were to persuade just one person to stop fighting for something they were convinced was worthwhile, I would end up persuading myself, and my whole life would be diminished.

Fear will always step in the moment we choose to let faith go.

We should feel free to see a tension in Paul's thinking, a paradox as I mentioned earlier: what God has done in Jesus is deeply connected to Israel's story while at the same time breaking out of the confines of that story. As soon as we try to resolve that paradox in Paul we will misunderstand him.

“As you say,” Moses replied, “I will never see your face again.”

saying to them, “Hear, O Israel, today you are going into battle with your enemies. Do not be fainthearted or afraid; do not be alarmed or terrified because of them.

Then all the people stood as one man and said, “Not one of us will return to his tent or to his house.

When Naomi saw that Ruth was determined to go with her, she stopped trying to persuade her.

“Wait, my daughter,” said Naomi, “until you find out how things go, for he will not rest unless he has resolved the matter today.”

And David said to Saul, “Let no man’s heart fail on account of this Philistine. Your servant will go and fight him!”