…the Christian is assured that though he may be a person who is physically disposed to be thoroughly alarmed, he may experience not only strength but positive joy in the midst of danger.
—Martyn Lloyd-Jones
We might well pray for God to invade & conquer us, for until He does we remain in peril. The strength of our flesh is an ever present danger to our souls. Deliverance can come only by the defeat of our old life. Safety & peace come only after we have been forced to our knees.
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
—Leonardo Da Vinci
We rowed with all our strength under the wise guidance of our father. We were hot from work and happy. Father sat with an oar in the stern – cheerful and strong. He felt like a savior of the drowning, a seafaring hero, Vasco da Gama. And although life sent him a puddle instead of an ocean, his soul was oceanic. And precisely because his soul would be enough for an entire ocean, Vasco da Gama sometimes could not stand this disproportion and sunk his ships in the tavern.
“Seek then strength from the Strong one and wisdom from the Wise One.”
In Christ. All strength to walk with God is from him.
—John Owen
“O to love God with all our heart, and with all our soul, and with all our mind, and with all our strength: that is what the law required, it is what the gospel enables us to render.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Lust is the source of life’s greatest disasters and agonies. Therefore, it is inherent in people to try to moderate and silence it with all their strength. Yet people in our time do all they can to enflame it, treating lust and infatuation as the most elevated of feelings.
—Leo Tolstoy
“Is it not a glorious thing, that God’s strength should be perfect in our weakness?”
– Charles Spurgeon
My Lord has given me a sling and a stone; stripling as I am, I will go forth then in his strength, make mention of his righteousness only, and by that lay prostrate many *Goliaths*.
—George Whitefield
Your gifts lie in the place where your values, passions and strengths meet. Discovering that place is the first step toward sculpting your masterpiece, Your Life.
—Michelangelo
If a person believes his strength is in his physical rather than his spiritual life, he’s like a bird that walks from place to place on its pathetic little legs and doesn’t use its wings to fly where it needs to go.
—Leo Tolstoy
Disorder came from order, fear came from courage, weakness came from strength.
—Sun Tzu
Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.
—Marcus Aurelius
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?
—John Milton
Wait upon the LORD, and you shall renew your strength. Though sometimes faint, yet still pursue.
—George Whitefield
Nature is upheld by antagonism. Passions, resistance, danger, are educators. We acquire the strength we have overcome.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Lord is my strength; yet I am prone to lean on reeds.
—John Newton
Order or disorder depends on organisation; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on dispositions.
—Sun Tzu
There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair.
—Charles Dickens
The proud person always wants to do the right thing, the great thing. But because he wants to do it in his own strength, he is fighting not with man, but with God.
—Søren Kierkegaard
I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. ‘Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but they whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves their conduct, will pursue their principles unto death
—Leonardo Da Vinci
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
—Plato
No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training.
It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable.
—Socrates
Whenever the roaring lion, walking about and seeking whom he may devour, assaults you with all his malice, and rage, and strength, resist him, steadfast in the faith.
—John Wesley
Freely give means to give lavishly. What do I need today? Strength? Peace? Patience? Heavenly joy? Industry? Good temper? Power to help others? Inward contentment? Courage? Whatever it be, my God will lavish it upon me.
—Amy Carmichael
Ours is a God who delivers, not from the hour of trial, but out of it, out of its power; and in the bearing up under it, not in the sliding out from beneath it, there is strength and victory.
—Amy Carmichael
We know that the temptation to fear is a very old one; millions of people have had it. But they have conquered, and so will you, if you take our Saviour’s words of strength to yourself, and stay yourself on them.
—Amy Carmichael
There is no need to be overcome, whatever happens. O my soul, thou hast trodden down strength (Judg. 5:21).
—Amy Carmichael
We might well pray for God to invade & conquer us, for until He does we remain in peril. The strength of our flesh is an ever present danger to our souls. Deliverance can come only by the defeat of our old life. Safety & peace come only after we have been forced to our knees.