Quotes about Strength

Fear may fill our world, but it doesn't have to fill our hearts.

You'll get through this. You fear you won't. We all do. We fear that the depression will never lift, the yelling will never stop, the pain will never leave. Here in the pits, surrounded by steep walls and angry brothers, we wonder, Will this gray sky ever brighten? This load ever lighten? We feel stuck, trapped, locked in. Predestined for failure. Will we ever exit this pit?

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; And through the rivers, they shall not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, Nor shall the flame scorch you. (Isa. 43:2)

Your difficulty, your disease, your conflict are preparing you to be a voice of encouragement to your brothers.

Does God guarantee the absence of struggle and the abundance of strength? Not in this life. But he does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose.

Sustaining grace promises not the absence of struggle but the presence of God.

God has given us peace in our pain. He covers us all the time. Even when we are out of control, he is still there.

Anybody can preach a sermon on a mount surrounded by daisies. But only one with a gut full of faith can live a sermon on a mountain of pain.

Repeat it to yourself over and over until it trumps the voices of fear and angst. The LORD your God is with you, he is mighty to save. He will take great delight in your, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over your with singing (Zeph. 3:17 NIV)

Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children, and battle addictions, and, as a result, face fears. It's not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It's whom we discover in the storm: an unstirred Christ.

He empowers us to be what he calls us to be.

Beneath the hard, painful surface of her recollection were layers of healing truth. God had never left her side, not even for a moment.