Meaningful Quotes. Thoughtful Insights. Helpful Tools.
Advanced Search Options

Quotes about Strength

How many times we must relearn the lesson that God is the only unfailing One. He is the only One who is true to His Word on every occasion. "Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God" (Psalm 20:7).
- Alistair Begg
Peter's confession of faith, like our own, could never have come about by his own strength. Faith is a gift that we are given. This exchange between Peter and Jesus is a concrete example of the Spirit of God taking the word of God and bringing it to someone's mind and heart in a way that causes him or her to declare the messiahship of Jesus.
- Alistair Begg
Jeremiah 17:5: "Cursed is the one who trusts in man, who draws strength from mere flesh and whose heart turns away from the LORD.
- Alistair Begg
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
- Frank Herbert
Evangelical churches are weaker than we realize because we don't teach the confessions and doctrine.
- JI Packer
I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.
- Billy Graham
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.
- Charles Spurgeon
My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
- Joseph Addison
When we have nothing to cling to as our own and cease thinking of ourselves as people who must defend privileges, we can open ourselves freely to others with the faithful expectation that our strength will manifest itself in our shared weakness.
- Henri Nouwen
Flee an enemy who knows your weakness.
- Pierre Corneille