Quotes about Stability

A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock.

Faith and mental stability aren't mutually exclusive.

Believe God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea.

It is our Lord's wisdom, that His kirk should ever hang by a thread; and yet the thread breaketh not, being hanged upon Him who is the sure Nail in David's house (Isa. xxii. 23), upon whom all the vessels, great and small, do hang; and the Nail (God be thanked) neither crooketh nor can be broken. Jesus,

Your rock doth not ebb and flow, but your sea.

It takes a little time sometimes to get your feet back on the ground.

If our emotional stability is based on what other people do or do not do, then we have no stability. If our emotional stability is based on love that is changeless and unalterable, then we attain the stability of God.

There's a biblical story where Jesus says we can build our house on sand or we can build it on rock. Our house is our emotional stability. When it is built on sand, then the winds and rain can tear it down. One disappointing phone call and we crumble; one storm and the house falls down. When our house is built on rock, then it is sturdy and strong and the storms can't destroy it.

Radicalism is a luxury of stability because only when we have everything under control can we dare to change things.

Nothing sobers a wandering philosophical imagination like the thought of having a wife and children to support.

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

Put the ballast of biblical truth in the belly of our little boats, lest the crashing waves of calamity of these changing times cause us to capsize in the sea of trouble