Quotes about Ability
Our creativity, our inner sense of right and wrong, our ability to love and to reason—all bear witness to the fact that God created us in His image. The Bible says God "has not left himself without testimony" [Acts 14:17 NIV].
- Billy Graham
The mourning of inadequacy is a weeping that catches the attention of God . . .The happiest day of my life was when I realized that my own ability, my own goodness, my own morality was insufficient in the sight of God; and I publicly and openly acknowledged my need of Christ.
- Billy Graham
God is able to do what we can't do.
- Billy Graham
In America we have an idolatry called the "adulation of youth." Apparently distressed by their inability to communicate with the younger generation, many adults simply imitate it.
- Billy Graham
Man has no ability to repair this damaged planet. The flaw in human nature is too great. God is our only hope!
- Billy Graham
The church has lost its ability to discipline members who live openly in sin. Consequently, we have lost our witness in the community.
- Billy Graham
The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do.
- Booker T. Washington
Art is not a gift which a few people are given, but rather it is a gift which most people throw away.
- Fred Craddock
Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.
- Frederick Douglass
Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.
- Henri Nouwen
No, I've always been impressed with the tremendous resilience of the American economy. I think over the years, over the decades, it's demonstrated this tremendous ability to take severe body blows, if you will, and bounce back.
- Dick Cheney
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better work.
- Elbert Hubbard