Quotes About Strength

The person who is impatient with weakness will be ineffective in his leadership.

Paul admitted to knowing fear, but it never stopped him. "I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling," he reported in 1 Corinthians 2:3, but the verb is came. He did not stay home out of fear for the journey.

When we invite the Spirit to fill us, the Spirit's power grips our lives with this kind of strength and passion.

To be filled with the Spirit is to be controlled by the Spirit. The Christian leader's mind, emotions, will, and physical strength all become available for the Spirit to guide and use. Under the Spirit's control, natural gifts of leadership are lifted to their highest power, sanctified for holy purpose.

Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.

I am grateful for all my problems. After each one was overcome, I became stronger and more able to meet those that were still to come. I grew in all my difficulties.

The strength of America is not in Washington.

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J. Carson Black

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

J. Elizabeth Mills

Calmness is the cradle of power.

The point is that this thing hangs together. We have in the Gospels an account of a person who was entirely unique. He was totally different from other men in his moral purity and strength. Yet he made the most stupendous claims—claims that place him beyond the bounds of sanity unless the claims were true. The claims are true if the resurrection really happened; they are a hopeless puzzle if the resurrection did not happen.

Jesus didn't just wear a cross around his neck, he carried it on his back.

There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.

Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.

What do I care how 'e looks? I am good-looking enough for both of us, I theenk! All these scars show is zat my husband is brave!

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all of the power we need inside ourselves already.

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

We must try not to sink beneath our anguish... but battle on.

It was not, after all, so easy to die.

Don't let the muggles get you down.

I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.