Quotes about Strength

Great men like Wilberforce and Wesley had the humility and the wisdom to know that whatever strengths they had—and they had many—they could not win without a total reliance on God. At its core, every battle worth fighting is a spiritual battle. Those men were able to succeed only because they humbled themselves and entrusted the battle to God.

That with God, all things are possible.

If we think of the fatherhood of God, we get a picture of someone who is strong and loving and who sacrifices himself for those he loves. That's a picture of real fatherhood and real manhood.

It was not apathy or passiveness. For him, prayer was a display of the strongest possible activity.

Fireproof doesn't mean that a fire will never come, but that when it comes you'll be able to withstand it.

The greatest feminists have also been the greatest lovers. I'm thinking not only of Mary Wollstonecraft and her daughter Mary Shelley, but of Anais Nin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and of course Sappho. You cannot divide creative juices from human juices. And as long as juicy women are equated with bad women, we will err on the side of being bad.

Waiting upon the Lord disarms the flesh. It allows you time to forget about yourself and see Jesus. It dismantles the powers of sin. It gives you Holy Spirit strength in your inner man, and the flesh begins to lose its grip on your life.

Refuse to be disheartened, discouraged, distracted from your goals in life.

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

I'm a freak when it comes to holding on the ground; it's just almost impossible holding me on the ground.

Give the people not hell, but hope and courage.

In Haryana, there are two things that are most important in a household. We don't care if we have a big house and several cars or not. But for us, in every household, the sons need to be strong, and the animals need to be in good health.