Quotes about Possibility
You have to let go of what you think you know. There's a narrow Way where all things are possible. The price to walk it is death, which is why it's such a rare find, a treasure buried in a field. Most will never seek it because they're terrified of what they will find.
- Ted Dekker
It is true that in a world of high consumption, where anything and everything is possible, nothing is so humanizing as love, and a conscious interest in the life of others, particularly in the life of the oppressed. For love leaves us open to wounding and disappointment.
- Jurgen Moltmann
What is possible for me is possible for you.
- Frederick Douglass
Christianity is not simply a message but an experience of faith that becomes a message, explicitly offering hope, freedom from bondage, and a new realm of possibility.
- Brennan Manning
I can only be healed from above, from where God reaches down. What is impossible for me is possible for God. "With God, everything is possible."
- Henri Nouwen
A young student reflecting on his own experience wrote recently: When loneliness is haunting me with its possibility of being a threshold instead of a dead end, a new creation instead of a grave, a meeting place instead of an abyss, then time loses its desperate clutch on me. Then I no longer have to live in a frenzy of activity, overwhelmed and afraid for the missed opportunity.
- Henri Nouwen
This world is but canvas to our imaginations.
- Henry David Thoreau
So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre.
- Henry David Thoreau
What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.
- Henry David Thoreau
But man's capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, "be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?
- Henry David Thoreau
The key difference between what appears to be impossible to us and what is actually possible is a word from our Master!
- Henry Blackaby
God doesn't expect the impossible from us. He wants us to expect the impossible from Him!
- DL Moody