Quotes about Strength

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving I experience my strength, my wealth, my power.

At some point in the late afternoon, preferably before dinner, while you are still experiencing the strength and rest of God, take fifteen minutes in quiet solitude to review and examine the day.

in a day spent with him, we can expect to be receiving his strength to do those things that will please him, and avoid those things that bring him pain.

This can also be a time of confession, in which you ask for the strength to deal with the failures you experience day by day.

The faith of desperation—trusting faith—digs in, holds on, clings tight, and says, "I don't care what's going to happen, I am holding on to God!

Crucifixion is an interesting thing. It is hard to do by yourself. In fact, it is impossible.

But this is an age for spiritual heroes—a time for men and women to be heroic in faith and in spiritual character and power.

We are not only asking to be forgiven, we are asking for guidance and wisdom and strength to respond differently tomorrow.

So we do not have the strength we should have, and Jesus' commandments become overwhelmingly burdensome to us. In fact, many Christians cannot even believe he actually intended for us to carry them out. So what is the result? His teachings are treated as a mere ideal, one that we may better ourselves by aiming for but know we are bound to fall glaringly short of.

There may be times when you have to renew your commitment to release what you want, how you look, and especially what you are doing for the Lord. Much of our effort to do things for the Lord is really the resurgence of our desire to dominate and make things happen in our own strength.

Spiritual formation in Christ is the process leading to that ideal end, and its result is love of God with all of the heart, soul, mind, and strength, and of the neighbor as oneself.

In people without rock-solid character, feeling is a deadly enemy of self-control and will always subvert it. The mongoose of a disciplined will under God and good is the only match for the cobra of feeling.