Quotes about Strength

People think you're vulnerable when you tell the truth, but it's never hurt me.

You may feel overwhelmed by your own poverty and the labors of the day. But if you decide not to wait until you have more strength and more money, and if you pray for the Holy Spirit as you go, you will, when you arrive, know what to do and how to help someone even poorer than you are.

For every problem or confusion and for every desire or ambition there is an available force waiting for your call.

Comebacks don't seem likely when your back is up against the wall and your hope is depleted. But if you will stay the course, you will discover God's power to reverse the irreversible in your life.

I broke my right ankle. Four ribs. One rib went into my liver. My spleen. My back in two places.

Only those who are built up can build others up, amen?

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it.

Years ago I watched my 1st wife suffer through cancer and she went to be with Jesus.

God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations.

Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.