Quotes about Strength

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

He that dare not die, dare scarce fight valiantly (475).

The strongest Christian is unsafe among occasions to sin (519).

what a silly, frail, and forward pieces are the best of men (647)!

I know necessity may cause the Church to tolerate the weak; but woe to us if we tolerate and indulge our own weakness.

is the man who trusts in man And makes hflesh his 2strength, Whose heart departs from the LORD. 6For he shall be ilike a shrub in the desert, And jshall not see when good comes, But shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, kIn a salt land which is not inhabited.

Only hour by hour gratitude is strong enough to overcome all temptations to resentment.

Jesus praised faith and trust — even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.

Love is always stronger than death, and unto that love you have now returned.

Human strength is defined in asserting boundaries. God, it seems, is in the business of dissolving boundaries. So we enter into paradox—what's Three is one and what's One is three. We just can't resolve that, and so we confuse unity with uniformity.

Thus the most common one-liner in the Bible is "Do not be afraid"; in fact, someone counted and found that it occurs 365 times!

Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgement of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect his strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to him in whom our strength lies.