Quotes About Strength

If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

True courage is like a kite a contrary wind raises it higher.

You cannot know what prayer is for, until you know that life is war.

Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you through the day.

Christians in the West are weakened by wimpy worldviews. And wimpy worldviews make wimpy Christians.

We cannot know what prayer is for until we know that life is war.

As we grow older and our bodies weaken, we must learn from the Puritan pastor Richard Baxter (who died in 1691) to redouble our efforts to find strength from spiritual joy, not natural supplies.

When you bow down your head to pray Let the first thing that you say Be a lowly word and meek: "I admit that I am weak.

God and his word are the reality we need -- the Rock under our feet.

The fight for joy in Christ is not a fight to soften the cushion of Western comforts. It is a fight for strength to live a life of self-sacrificing love.

If you pour yourself out for the hungry and satisfy the desire of the afflicted, then shall your light rise in the darkness and your gloom be as the noonday. And the LORD will guide you continually and satisfy your desire in scorched places and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

But not only does the pursuit of joy in God give strength to endure; it is the key to breaking the power of sin on our way to heaven.

When I am anxious about getting old, I battle unbelief with the promise: "Even to your old age I am he, and to gray hairs I will carry you. I have made, and I will bear; I will carry and will save" (Isaiah 46:4).

The cure for wimpy Christians is weighty doctrine!

The hope of heaven brought him joy, and joy brought him strength, and so, like John Calvin before him and George Whitefield after him (two verifiable examples) and, it would seem, like the apostle Paul himself Ã¢â'¬Â¦ he was astoundingly enabled to labor on, accomplishing more than would ever have seemed possible in a single lifetime."4 But

Father, I am empty, but you are full. I am hungry, but you are the Bread of Heaven. I am thirsty, but you are the Fountain of Life. I am weak, but you are strong. I am poor, but you are rich. I am foolish, but you are wise. I am broken, but you are whole. I am dying, but your steadfast love is better than life" (see Psalm63:3). When God sees this confession of need and this expression of trust, he acts, because the glory of his all-sufficient grace is at stake.

It is a great thing to die; and, when flesh and heart fail, to have God for the strength of our heart, and our portion forever. I know whom I have believed, and he is able to keep that which I have committed against that great day. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me that day. 28

Christian, be a Christian: live by faith; walk by the Spirit; serve in the strength that God supplies.

The strength of our desire is not the measure of the strength of the final pleasure.

Be sure that you live not idly, but in some constant business of a lawful calling, so far as you have bodily strength. Idleness is a constant sin, and labour is a duty. Idleness is but the devil's home for temptation, and for unprofitable, distracting musings. Labour profiteth others and ourselves; both soul and body need it. - Richard Baxter

If God alone is enough to support joy when all else is lost, it is a miracle of grace.

The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies and put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks."5

My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness" (2 Corinthians 12:8).

As for aircraft, the Imperial Navy was as strong as it had been at the beginning of the war.