Quotes about Strength
O saving Victim, opening wide. The gate of heaven to man below, Our foes press on from every side,Thine aid supply, Thy strength bestow.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Jesus's disciples have faith, but their worry proves the weakness of their faith. Great faith comes not by looking inward, to the believing self, but by looking upward, to God. By faith we stop thinking like pagans, filled with anxiety about food and clothing. Pagans, thinking like orphans, worry. Disciples, thinking like children, relax.
— Sam Storms
Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.
— Samuel Johnson
The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.
— Samuel Johnson
My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
— Samuel Rutherford
Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always look about for the wine.
— Samuel Rutherford
Whenever I find myself in the cellar of affliction, I always looks around for the wine.
— Samuel Rutherford
Christ's cross is such a burden as sails are to a ship or wings to a bird.
— Samuel Rutherford
whether God come to his children with a rod or a crown, if he come himself with it, it is well. Welcome, welcome Jesus, what way soever thou come, if we can get a sight of thee. And sure I am, it is better to be sick, providing Christ come to the bed-side, and draw aside the curtains, and say 'Courage, I am thy salvation,' than to enjoy health, being lusty and strong, and never to be visited of God.
— Samuel Rutherford
It is our Lord's wisdom, that His kirk should ever hang by a thread; and yet the thread breaketh not, being hanged upon Him who is the sure Nail in David's house (Isa. xxii. 23), upon whom all the vessels, great and small, do hang; and the Nail (God be thanked) neither crooketh nor can be broken. Jesus,
— Samuel Rutherford
Not one ounce, not one grain-weight more is laid on me than He hath enabled me to bear . . . Faith hath cause to take courage from our very afflictions; the devil is but a whetstone to sharpen the faith and patience of the saints. I know He but heweth and polisheth stones for the new Jerusalem.
— Samuel Rutherford
His cross is the sweetest burden that ever I bare: it is such a burden as wings are to a bird, or sails to a ship, to carry me forward to my harbour.
— Samuel Rutherford