Strength is found in weakness. Control is found in dependency. Power is found in surrender.
Dan Allender
Strength
Christian Quotes About Strength
Augustine — God of our life…
God of our life, there are days when the burdens we carry chafe our shoulders and weigh us down; when the road seems dreary and endless, the skies gray and threatening; when our lives have no music in them, and our hearts are lonely, and our souls have lost their courage. Flood the path with light, run our eyes to where the skies are full of promise; tune our hearts to brave music; give us the sense of comradeship with heroes and saints of every age; and so quicken our spirits that we may be able to encourage the souls of all who journey with us on the road of life, to your honor and glory.
Augustine
Augustine — When God is our strength…
When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.
Augustine
Corrie ten Boom — When we are powerless to do a thing…
When we are powerless to do a thing, it is a great joy that we can come and step inside the ability of Jesus.
Corrie ten Boom
Claire Nuer — Will you be the rock…
Will you be the rock that redirects the course of the river?
Claire Nuer
E. W. Kenyon — The love of Christ…
The love of Christ becomes the mightiest force in the world to the man who is yielded to it.
E. W. Kenyon
Thomas Merton — Spread abroad the name of Jesus…
Spread abroad the name of Jesus in humility and with a meek heart; show him your feebleness, and he will become your strength.
Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton — Courage comes and goes…
Courage comes and goes. Hold on for the next supply.
Thomas Merton
C. S. Lewis — Very often what God first helps us towards…
Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again. For however important chastity (or courage, or truthfulness, or any other virtue) may be, this process trains us in habits of the soul which are more important still.
C. S. Lewis
John Piper — Grace is not simply leniency…
Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned. Grace is the enabling gift of God not to sin. Grace is power, not just pardon. Therefore the effort we make to obey God is not an effort done in our own strength, but in the strength which God supplies.
John Piper
The Talmud — Who is a wise man…
Who is a wise man? -He who studies all the time.
Who is strong? -He who can limit himself.
Who is rich? -He who is happy with what he has.
The Talmud
J. Hudson Taylor — How often do we attempt work for God…
How often do we attempt work for God to the limit of our incompetency, rather than the limit of God’s omnipotence?
J. Hudson Taylor
Armin Gesswein — When God is about to do something great…
When God is about to do something great, he starts with a difficulty. When he is about to do something truly magnificent, he starts with an impossibility.
Armin Gesswein
Unknown — Courage doesn’t always roar…
Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, I’ll try again tomorrow.
Unknown
D. L. Moody — When God wants to move a mountain…
When God wants to move a mountain, he does not take a bar of iron, but he takes a little worm. The fact is, we have too much strength. We are not weak enough. It is not our strength that we want. One drop of God’s strength is worth more than all the world.
D. L. Moody
Billy Graham — One with God…
One with God is a majority.
Billy Graham
Victor Hugo — Have courage…
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and have patience for the small ones. Go to sleep in peace. God is awake.
Victor Hugo
Samuel Rutherford — Jesus Christ came into my prison cell…
Jesus Christ came into my prison cell last night, and every stone flashed like a ruby.
Samuel Rutherford
Annie Johnson Flint — God has not promised skies always blue…
God has not promised skies always blue,
flower-strewn pathways all our lives through;
God has not promised sun without rain,
joy without sorrow, peace without pain.
But God has promised strength for the day,
rest for the labor, light for the way,
grace for the trials, help from above,
unfailing sympathy, undying love.
Annie Johnson Flint
Charles H. Spurgeon — Trust in your Redeemer’s strength…
Trust in your Redeemer’s strength…exercise what faith you have, and by and by He shall rise upon you with healing beneath His wings. Go from faith to faith and you shall receive blessing upon blessing.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Charles Stanley — We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught…
We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength.
Charles Stanley
E. M. Bounds — Faith gathers strength…
Faith gathers strength by waiting and praying.
E. M. Bounds
John T. Faris — A man was carrying a heavy basket…
A man was carrying a heavy basket. His son asked to help him. The father cut a stick and placed it through the handle of the basket so that the end toward himself was very short; while the end toward the boy was three or four times as long. Each took hold of his end of the stick, and the basket was lifted and easily carried. The son was bearing the burden with the father, but he found his work easy and light because his father assumed the heavy end of the stick. Just so it is when we bear the yoke with Christ; He sees to it that the burden laid on us is light; He carries the heavy end.
John T. Faris
S.C. Armstrong — What are Christians put into the world for…
What are Christians put into the world for except to do the impossible in the strength of God?
S.C. Armstrong
J. Hudson Taylor — Do not work so hard for Christ…
Do not work so hard for Christ that you have no strength to pray, for prayer requires strength.
J. Hudson Taylor
Francois Fenelon — It is amazing how strong we become…
It is amazing how strong we become when we begin to understand what weaklings we are!
Francois Fenelon
Jewish Refugee — I believe…
I believe in the sun even when it isn’t shining. I believe in love even when I am alone. I believe in God even when He is silent.
Jewish refugee, World War II, Poland
Jill Briscoe — If only God would lean out of heaven…
If only God would lean out of heaven and tell me [my children] are going to make it, I could relax. But God doesn’t do that. He tells us to be the parents he has called us to be in his strength and promises to do his part. Driven to prayer (after discovering that manipulation didn’t work), I began to realize I was only truly positive and confident when I’d been flat on my face before the Lord.
Jill Briscoe
John of the Cross — In sorrow and suffering…
In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed.
John of the Cross
Corrie Ten Boom — Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength…
Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
Corrie Ten Boom
William Booth — The greatness of a man’s power…
The greatness of a man’s power is the measure of his surrender.
William Booth
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