Quotes about Limits
Can you fathom the deep things of God or discover the limits of the Almighty?
- Job 11:7
when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors,
- Job 38:10
All this I tested by wisdom, saying, “I resolve to be wise.” But it was beyond me.
- Ecclesiastes 7:23
We, however, will not boast beyond our limits, but only within the field of influence that God has assigned to us—a field that reaches even to you.
- 2 Corinthians 10:13
Neither do we boast beyond our limits in the labors of others. But we hope that as your faith increases, our area of influence among you will greatly increase as well,
- 2 Corinthians 10:15
But he was wrong. Because I had fought with my heart and defeated it long ago. I was certainly not going to become passionate about something that was impossible. I knew my limits; I knew how much suffering i could bear.
- Paulo Coelho
you only know yourself when you go beyond your limits
- Paulo Coelho
Every stage of human life, except the last, is marked out by certain and defined limits; old age alone has no precise and determinate boundary.
- Cicero
Remember your created limits. So much of workaholism is a defiance of the physical limitations that God our creator has imposed upon us.
- Tim Challies
Remember, you will never change what you permit, and never challenge what you allow.
- Perry Stone
But a free woman possesses the God-given ability to know when He is truly asking her to do something—as well as the God-given ability to know when He's not. Then she has the God-given discernment to know her limits and the authority to know when she needs "to cease, to stop, to pause"—accepting the gentle yoke of Jesus instead of the tyrannical yoke of slavery. "For My yoke is easy," He said, "and My burden is light" (Matt. 11:30).
- Priscilla Shirer
Strategy 8—Against Your Rest and Contentment He hopes to overload your life and schedule, pressuring you to constantly push beyond your limits, never feeling permission to say no (Deut. 5:15).
- Priscilla Shirer