Quotes about Power

When we depend upon organizations, we get what organizations can do; when we depend upon education, we get what education can do; when we depend upon man, we get what man can do; but when we depend upon prayer, we get what God can do.1

No man can give the impression that he himself is clever and that Christ is mighty to save." Self-exaltation and Christ-exaltation can't go together.

In the first case, we use our own power to make ourselves moral. In the second case, we use our own power to make the church moral. In the first case, we fail to rely on the power of God for our own sanctification. In the second case, we fail to rely on the power of God for the sanctification of others.

In other words, the path to glory for God's incarnate representative on earth was the path through suffering. The path to majesty was through meekness. The path to exaltation was through humility. The path to power was through weakness.

In other words, all the highest aims of language are decisively the work of God. They are decisively supernatural. And no amount of poetic effort or expertise in the use of words can bring about the great aims of life if God withholds his saving power.

To the world the gospel doesn't look like power at all. It looks like weakness—asking people to be like children and telling them to depend on Jesus, instead of standing on their own two feet. But for those who believe, it is the power of God to give sinners everlasting glory.

It is crucial that we realize that grace in Paul's vocabulary is not just a divine disposition to pardon sin. It is also a divine power to work in us all that God requires from us.

The wisdom of God's providence in bringing us from conversion to glory engages our wholehearted pursuit of holiness but reserves the decisive power for God himself. We act the miracle. God causes it.

The popular God of fun-church is simply too small and too affable to hold a hurricane in his hand.

the path of obedience is the place where Christ meets us as our servant to carry our burdens and give us his power.

And, Father, most of all, you taught Me there's a Pow'r in love that naught Can thwart, and that it moves where truth And courage speak, and neither youth Nor age can hinder its success, But only fear and quietness.

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:8).