Quotes about Ability

Everybody has talent, but ability takes hard work.

He had no ability to plan and organize and pay attention and switch focus; he had never been able to tailor his behavior to what the goals at hand reasonably required.

Running taught me valuable lessons. In cross-country competition, training counted more than intrinsic ability, and I could compensate for a lack of natural aptitude with diligence and discipline. I applied this in everything I did. Even as a student, I saw many young men who had great natural ability, but who did not have the self-discipline and patience to build on their endowment.

You need to preach a gospel that finds its hope not in your understanding and ability but in a God who is grand and glorious in every way and who has invaded your life and ministry by his grace.

Creation was made to be one big finger pointing you to the One who alone has the ability to satisfy your heart.

You and I have all the power in the world to doubt and no independent power at all to believe. So if you are living by faith, don't proudly pat yourself on the back as if you did something great. No, raise your eyes and your hands toward heaven and thank God for gifting you with the desire and ability to believe.

When my hope is in my ability to rule the day, my spouse becomes a constant threat rather than an intimate companion.

The physical world is full of many glories, but the pursuit of these glories must not rule my heart because they have no ability whatsoever to offer me the life that I so desperately need.

And the LORD said to him, “Who gave man his mouth? Or who makes the mute or the deaf, the sighted or the blind? Is it not I, the LORD?

And I have filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability, and knowledge in all kinds of craftsmanship,

And He has filled him with the Spirit of God, with skill, ability, and knowledge in all kinds of craftsmanship,

And the LORD has given both him and Oholiab son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan, the ability to teach others.