Quotes about Strength
The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away, was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave.
— John Bunyan
He that is down, needs fear no fall,He that is low, no pride.
— John Bunyan
Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
— John Bunyan
This hill though high I covent ascend; The difficulty will not me offend; For I perceive the way of life lies here. Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.
— John Bunyan
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
— John Maxwell
The first kind of problems are the ones life sends upon you to test you, to make you humble or make you longsuffering, or whatever you may need.
— John C. Wright
Some problems build character. You cannot grow without this kind of problem, any more than you can build muscles without exercise.
— John C. Wright
The suffering we bring on ourselves, we can ask to be taken away from us once we repent of it. The suffering sent to instruct us, we can ask for the strength to endure, and the humbleness to be instructed.
— John C. Wright
We shall find that the reason why we doubt of God's promises is, because we sinfully detract from his power.
— John Calvin
Let this, then, be a standing truth, that the whole strength of the godly consists in the grace of God, according to the words of the prophet, "I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within you;
— John Calvin
God does not measure the precepts of his law by human strength, but, after ordering what is right, freely bestows on his elect the power of fulfilling it.
— John Calvin
So, too, David, after he has prayed the ways of God be made known to him so that he may walk in his truth, immediately adds, "Unite my heart to fear thy name" [Ps. 86:11; cf. Ps. 119:33]. By these words he means that even well-disposed persons have been subject to so many distractions that they readily vanish or fall away unless they are strengthened to persevere.
— John Calvin