Quotes about Empowerment

Temptations are a compliment to our power, not our weakness.

He who would be free must strike the first blow.

What is possible for me is possible for you.

It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.

I prayed for freedom for twenty years, but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.

He ends our indecision and liberates us from the oppression of false deadlines and myopic vision.

The demands of forgiveness are so daunting that they seem humanly impossible. The demands of forgiveness are simply beyond the capacity of ungraced human will. Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the wounds inflicted by others. In boundary moments such as these there is only one place to go—Calvary.

I know that I have to move from speaking about Jesus to letting him speak within me, from thinking about Jesus to letting him think within me, from acting for and with Jesus to letting him act through me. I know the only way for me to see the world is to see it through his eyes.

Drinking our cup is not simply adapting ourselves to a bad situation and trying to use it as well as we can. Drinking our cup is a hopeful, courageous, and self-confident way of living. It is standing in the world with head erect, solidly rooted in the knowledge of who we are, facing the reality that surrounds us and responding to it from our hearts.

The gospel proclaims human freedom and dignity more than human enslavement and depravity. What is needed is a balance of biblical values and emphasis on the empowering quality of the gospel. The spiritual values of humility, long suffering, endurance, and obedience are to be affirmed alongside self-reliance, freedom, proclamation, mission, and authority.

Biblically, God always gives the assignment first. Then God equips the person by the Holy Spirit to accomplish what He assigns.