Quotes about Strength

I'm coming to the conclusion that to be used by God we must be weak and foolish rather than all-conquering heroes. I reckon God is sick and tired of people posing as overcomers with permanent grins, as if they somehow avoided the Fall and went hang-gliding instead. He needs us weak and childish to be used by him.

and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

Then Abimelech said to Isaac, “Depart from us, for you are much too powerful for us.”

When Jacob was told, “Your son Joseph has come to you,” Israel rallied his strength and sat up in bed.

Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength, excelling in honor, excelling in power.

Issachar is a strong donkey, lying down between the sheepfolds.

Naphtali is a doe set free that bears beautiful fawns.

Yet he steadied his bow, and his strong arms were tempered by the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, in the name of the Shepherd, the Rock of Israel,

So Moses told the people, “Remember this day, the day you came out of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for the LORD brought you out of it by the strength of His hand. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.

So Pharaoh prepared his chariot and took his army with him.

The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”

The LORD is my strength and my song, and He has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise Him, my father’s God, and I will exalt Him.