Quotes about Strength

Affliction produces endurance, endurance produces proven character, and proven character produces hope. Romans 5:3—4

O, Lord, help me to lift my eyes and look to the heavens and acknowledge who created all these. You bring out the starry host one by one, and call each of them by name. Because of Your great power and mighty strength, not one of them is missing. (Isa. 40:26)

Why does God allow us to spend so much of life in the heart of battle? Because He never meant for us to sip His Spirit like a proper cup of tea. He meant for us to hold our sweating hands over the fountain and lap up His life with unquenchable thirst.

Psalm 18 [David] sang to the LORD the words of this song when the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul. He said: 1 I love you, O LORD, my strength. 2 The LORD is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. 3 I call to the LORD, who is worthy of praise, and I am saved from my enemies.

Let God have your failures. Surrender to Him your most dreadful moments of captivity, your most humiliating defeats. God and God alone can use them to make you twice the warrior you ever dreamed you'd be.

If you do not stand firm in your faith, then you will not stand at all. Isaiah 7:9

You, my Lord, are a warrior; the Lord is Your name. (Exod. 15:3)

Christ isn't asking us to believe in our ability to exercise unwavering faith. He is asking us to believe that he is able.

God sometimes uses us most powerfully when we feel the least adequate.

Our Promised Lands are characterized by the presence of victory, not the absence of opposition.

We'll probably never learn to enjoy our storms, but we can learn to enjoy God's presence in the storm!

The goal of life is not the absence of pain. It's the presence of glory. God's glory. And sometimes that comes most vividly with pain. Not only have I learned that pain doesn't kill; I have learned that I will never lose or be betrayed by the one thing with absolute power to destroy me—God Himself.