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Found 100 quotes matching your search:  You will not stroll into Christlikeness with your hands in your pockets, shoving the door open with a careless shoulder. This is no hobby for one's leisure moments, taken up at intervals when we have nothing much to do, and put down and forgotten when our life grows full and interesting... It takes all one's strength, and all one's heart, and all one's mind, and all one's soul, given freely and recklessly and without restraint. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Godliness | | If we are whimpering, and sniveling, and begging to be spared the discipline of life that is sent to knock some smatterings of manhood into us, the answer to that prayer may never come at all. Thank God! If you are not bleating to get off, but asking to be given grace and strength to see this through with honour, "The very day" you pray that prayer, the answer always comes. Author: A.J. Gossip
Topics: Prayer, Strength | | Before He furnishes the abundant supply, we must first be made conscious of our emptiness. Before he gives strength, we must be made to feel our weakness. Slow, painfully slow, are we to learn this lesson; and slower still to own our nothingness and take the place of helplessness before the Mighty One. Author: A.W. Pink
Topics: Character, Humility, Weakness | | The church that is not jealously protected by mighty intercession and sacrificial labors will before long become the abode of every evil bird and the hiding place for unsuspected corruption. The creeping wilderness will soon take over that church that trusts in its own strength and forgets to watch and pray. Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Church, Prayer, Intercession | | As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character. Author: A.W. Tozer
Topics: Character | | The danger may exceed thy resistance, but not God's assistance; the enemies' power may surpass thy strength, their subtlety outwit thy prudence, but neither can excel the wisdom and might of God that is with thee. Author: Abraham Wright
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| | One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity. Author: Albert Schweitzer
Topics: Adversity, Strength, Overcoming | | Only he who can say, "The Lord is the strength of my life" can say, "Of whom shall I be afraid?" Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Strength, Fear | | Oh, when we are journeying through the murky night and the dark woods of affliction and sorrow, it is something to find here and there a spray broken, or a leafy stem bent down with the tread of His foot and the brush of His hand as He passed; and to remember that the path He trod He has hallowed, and thus to find lingering fragrance and hidden strength in the remembrance of Him as "in all points tempted like as we are," bearing grief for us, bearing grief with us, bearing grief like us. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Affliction, Grief | | I don't mean that there is too little New Testament language in our prayers; but there is too little both Old and New Testament language meditated on, understood, believed, realised and felt. There is too little Scripture substance, Scripture strength, Scripture depth, and Scripture height, in our prayers. Author: Alexander Whyte
Topics: Scripture | | We say, then, to anyone who is under trial, give Him time to steep the soul in His eternal truth. Go into the open air, look up into the depths of the sky, or out upon the wideness of the sea, or on the strength of the hills that is His also; or, if bound in the body, go forth in the spirit; spirit is not bound. Give Him time and, as surely as dawn follows night, there will break upon the heart a sense of certainty that cannot be shaken. Author: Amy Carmichael
Topics: Trials, Truth | | One of the gravest perils which besets the ministry is a restless scattering of energies over an amazing multiplicity of interests which leaves no margin of time and of strength for receptive and absorbing communion with God. Author: Andrew Bonar
Topics: Prayer | | While others still slept, He went away to pray and to renew His strength in communion with His Father. He had need of this, otherwise He would not have been ready for the new day. The holy work of delivering souls demands constant renewal through fellowship with God. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Renewal, Prayer, Evangelism | | Do not strive in your own strength; cast yourself at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and wait upon Him in the sure confidence that He is with you, and works in you. Strive in prayer; let faith fill your heart-so will you be strong in the Lord, and in the power of His might. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Prayer, Strength, Holiness | | Abide in Jesus, the sinless One - which means, give up all of self and its life, and dwell in God's will and rest in His strength. This is what brings the power that does not commit sin. Author: Andrew Murray
Topics: Selfishness | Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.
- Ralph Cudworth Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Character, Wisdom, Strength | In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.
- Robert E. Lee Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: The Bible, Stress, Strength | Life is but one continual course of instruction, The hand of the parent writes on the heart of the child the first faint characters which time deepens into strength so that nothing can efface them.
- Rowland Hill Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Education, Children, Parents | | Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength. Author: Billy Graham
Topics: Love, Weakness, Strength | | Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Atheism | | The strength of a man's virtue should not be measured by his special exertions, but by his habitual acts. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Habits | | The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able. Author: Blaise Pascal
Topics: Apathy | | Christians, let us leave the government of the world till the King comes; let us leave the civilizing of the world to be the incidental effect of the presence there of the Gospel of Christ, and let us give our time, our strength, our money, our days to the mission distinctively committed to the Church, namely, to make the Lord Jesus Christ known "to every creature"! Author: C.I. Scofield
Topics: Government, Evangelism | | Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know. Author: Charles Kingsley
Topics: Diligence, Self-control, Virtue | | Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Anxiety | | A prayerless church member is a hindrance. He is in the body like a rotting bone or a decayed tooth. Before long, since he does not contribute to the benefit of his brethren, he will become a danger and a sorrow to them. Neglect of private prayer is the locust which devours the strength of the church. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer, Apathy | | God will not go forth with that man who marches in his own strength. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Self-righteousness | | If Christ has died for me - ungodly as I am, without strength as I am - then I can no longer live in sin, but must arouse myself to love and serve Him who has redeemed me. I cannot trifle with the evil that killed my best Friend. I must be holy for his sake. How can I live in sin when He has died to save me from it? Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Service, Holiness | | Look to the cross, and hate your sin, for sin nailed your Well Beloved to the tree. Look up to the cross, and you will kill sin, for the strength of Jesus' love will make you strong to put down your tendencies to sin. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: The Cross | | Poor human nature cannot bear such strains as heavenly triumphs bring to it; there must come a reaction. Excess of joy or excitement must be paid for by subsequent depressions. While the trial lasts, the strength is equal to the emergency; but when it is over, natural weakness claims the right to show itself. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: The Minister's Fainting Fits, Lectures to My Students, Lecture XI, 1856.
Topics: Depression, Trials | | Prayer girds human weakness with divine strength, turns human folly into heavenly wisdom, and gives to troubled mortals the peace of God. We know not what prayer can do. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Prayer, Peace | | Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength... It is wisdom to take occasional furlough. In the long run, we shall do more by sometimes doing less. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: The Minister's Fainting Fits, Lectures to My Students, Lecture XI, 1856.
Topics: Rest | | Satan always hates Christian fellowship; it is his policy to keep Christians apart. Anything which can divide saints from one another he delights in. He attaches far more importance to godly intercourse than we do. Since union is strength, he does his best to promote separation. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Topics: Fellowship, Unity | | The bow cannot be always bent without fear of breaking. Repose is as needful to the mind as sleep to the body... Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength. Author: Charles Spurgeon
Source: Lectures to My Students.
Topics: Rest | | No one enjoys feeling weak, whether it is emotionally, spiritually or physically. There is something within the human spirit that wants to resist the thought of weakness. Many times this is nothing more than our human pride at work. Just as weakness carries a great potential for strength, pride carries an equally great potential for defeat. Author: Charles Stanley
Topics: Pride, Weakness, Strength | | We can be tired, weary and emotionally distraught, but after spending time alone with God, we find that He injects into our bodies energy, power and strength. Author: Charles Stanley
Topics: Prayer, Power, Strength | | Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength. Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Worry, Strength | | Trying to do the Lord's work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you. Author: Corrie Ten Boom
Topics: Holy Spirit, Service | | When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced. Author: D.L. Moody
Source: Christian History, n. 25.
Topics: Pride | | When a man has no strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Power | | When God wants to move a mountain, he does not take a bar of iron, but he takes a little worm. The fact is, we have too much strength. We are not weak enough. It is not our strength that we want. One drop of God's strength is worth more than all the world. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Strength | | Real true faith is man's weakness leaning on God's strength. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Faith, Weakness | | We are led on by an unseen power that we have not got strength to resist, or else we are led on by the loving Son of God. Author: D.L. Moody
Topics: Choices | | Once more, Never think that you can live to God by your own power or strength; but always look to and rely on him for assistance, yea, for all strength and grace. Author: David Brainerd
Topics: Grace, Power, Pride | | We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God. Author: David Brainerd
Topics: Strength, Contentment, Learning | | The weight of offering praise unto God is too heavy for men to lift; and as for angels, it will take up all their strength and their best abilities to go about it. Author: David Dickson
Topics: Praise | | Indeed, I disagree very much with those who are unwilling that Holy Scripture, translated into the vulgar tongue, be read by the uneducated, as if Christ taught such intricate doctrines that they could scarcely be understood by very few theologians, or as if the strength of the Christian religion consisted in men's ignorance of it. Author: Desiderius Erasmus
Topics: Scripture, Ignorance, Doctrine | | You know God gives me that inner strength that super strength to get through things. Author: Duane Chapman
Topics: Strength | | To me, it has been a source of great comfort and strength in the day of battle, just to remember that the secret of steadfastness, and indeed, of victory, is the recognition that "the Lord is at hand." Author: Duncan Campbell
Topics: Perseverance, Evangelism, Victory | | Work is a blessing. God has so arranged the world that work is necessary, and He gives us hands and strength to do it. The enjoyment of leisure would be nothing if we had only leisure. It is the joy of work well done that enables us to enjoy rest, just as it is the experiences of hunger and thirst that make food and drink such pleasures. - Discipline: The Glad Surrender Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Topics: Stewardship, Discipline, Work | | I have one desire now - to live a life of reckless abandon for the Lord, putting all my energy and strength into it. Author: Elisabeth Elliot
Topics: Perseverance | | Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength. Author: Francis de Sales
Topics: Character, Gentleness, Strength | | Just because the current giant you are facing looks like one you defeated in the past, don't buy the lie that you never really won the first battle! By the strength of God's grace, you trusted the Almighty and conquered your Goliath. The first giant is dead. Satan is masquerading as your former enemy so he can slip past your faith and regain entrance into your life. Resist him. Author: Francis Frangipane
Topics: Satan | | The conflict will always be beyond your strength. The enemy always pushes us beyond our personal, inbred, preset limits concerning how far we will go for God. The test kills the limits of our humanity, until we are like Christ in everything. We are left with a choice: Become Christlike or gradually shrivel into superficial hypocrites: angry people who have stopped walking with God, who blame others for our bitterness. Author: Francis Frangipane
Topics: Adversity | | There will be no "knights in shining armor" in God's kingdom; our armor will have many dings and dents. No, no perfect Hollywood heroes will ride to save the day; just wearied saints to look to God and, in weakness, find Christ's strength. This, indeed, is the essence of God's kingdom: divine greatness manifest in common people. Author: Francis Frangipane
Topics: Strength | | Humility enforces where neither virtue nor strength can prevail, nor reason. Author: Francis Quarles
Topics: Humility | | Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God in anger proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Author: Francis Quarles
Topics: Charity, Selfishness, Weakness | | It is not a minister's wisdom but his conviction which imparts itself to others. Nothing gives life but life. Real flame alone kindles other flame; this was the power of the apostles: "We believe and therefore speak." Firm faith in what they spoke, that was the basis of the apostles' strength. Author: Frederick W. Robertson
Topics: Faith, Wisdom | | Ah, I have kept Him waiting when I ought not, but He has waited even then. Always waiting - so patient with my foolishness, my weakness, my fear. Our fellowship is with God, and fellowship is friendship, and friendship means that partnership which, on His part, is the accommodating of His strength to my weakness. Author: G. Campbell Morgan
Topics: Weakness | | Waiting for God means power to do nothing save under command. This is not lack of power to do anything. Waiting for God needs strength rather than weakness. It is power to do nothing. It is the strength that holds strength in check. It is the strength that prevents the blundering activity which is entirely false and will make true activity impossible when the definite command comes. Author: G. Campbell Morgan
Topics: Waiting, Power | | Nothing is more needed among preachers today than that we should have the courage to shake ourselves free from the thousand and one trivialities in which we are asked to waste our time and strength, and resolutely return to the apostolic ideal which made necessary the office of the pastorate. (We must resolve that) we will continue steadfastly in prayer, and in the ministry of the Word. Author: G. Campbell Morgan
Topics: Preaching | | What we want is a rope let down from above--the strength of Him up there, let down into our souls. Author: G.V. Wigram
Topics: Power | | It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down. For the needs of today we have corresponding strength given. For the morrow we are told to trust. It is not ours yet. It is when tomorrow's burden is added to the burden of today that the weight is more than a man can bear. Author: George Macdonald
Topics: Worry, Trust, Strength | | There is no strength in unbelief. Even the unbelief of what is false is no source of might. It is the truth shining from behind that gives the strength to disbelieve. Author: George Macdonald
Topics: Truth, Unbelief | | What! Get to heaven on your own strength? Why, you might as well try to climb to the moon on a rope of sand! Author: George Whitefield
Topics: Heaven | | Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. Author: Helen Keller
Topics: Faith, Strength, Light | | To keep our faces toward change, and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate, is strength undefeatable. Author: Helen Keller
Topics: Patience, Change, Freedom | | Strength of character may be learned at work, but beauty of character is learned at home. Author: Henry Drummond
Topics: Character, Home, Work | | If a man does not exercise his arm he develops no biceps muscle; and if a man does not exercise his soul, he acquires no muscle in his soul, no strength of character, no vigour of moral fibre, nor beauty of Spiritual growth. Author: Henry Drummond
Source: The Greatest Thing in the World.
Topics: Growth | | Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Character, Strength | | The strength of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going in that way too. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Holiness, Strength | | The strength and happiness of a man consists in finding out the way in which God is going, and going that way too. Author: Henry Ward Beecher
Topics: Happiness | | Life is a journey, not a home; a road, not a city of habitation; and the enjoyments and blessings we have are but little inns on the roadside of life, where we may be refreshed for a moment, that we may with new strength press on to the end - to the rest that remaineth for the people of God. Author: Horatius Bonar
Topics: Life, Strength | | In Shansi I found Chinese Christians who were accustomed to spend time in fasting and prayer. They recognized that this fasting, which so many dislike, which requires faith in God, since it makes one feel weak and poorly, is really a Divinely appointed means of grace. Perhaps the greatest hindrance to our work is our own imagined strength; and in fasting we learn what poor, weak creatures we are-dependent on a meal of meat for the little strength which we are so apt to lean upon." Author: Hudson Taylor
Topics: Prayer, Faith, Fasting | | Do not work so hard for Christ that you have no strength to pray, for prayer requires strength. Author: Hudson Taylor
Topics: Prayer, Strength | | It is the consciousness of the threefold joy of the Lord, His joy in ransoming us, His joy in dwelling within us as our Saviour and Power for fruitbearing and His joy in possessing us, as His Bride and His delight; it is the consciousness of this joy which is our real strength. Our joy in Him may be a fluctuating thing: His joy in us knows no change. Author: Hudson Taylor
Topics: Holy Spirit, Joy, Strength | | When I hear Christians say, "I don't do this, and I don't do that, and I am following a set of rules," I immediately recognize that they know very little about the grace of God. They are trying to live the Christian life in their own strength. But Paul says, "Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." Author: J. Vernon McGee
Topics: Grace | | You don't get strength for the load; you get strength from the load. Author: Jack Hyles
Topics: Strength | | God never gives us anything to do that He does not give us the strength to do. Author: Jack Hyles
Topics: Strength | | Temperance is reason's girdle, and passion's bride, the strength of the soul, and the foundation of virtue. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Virtue, Strength | | Self-control is the exercise of inner strength under the direction of sound judgement that enables us to do, think, and say the things that are pleasing to God. Author: Jerry Bridges
Topics: Strength, Self-control | | Prayer is a sincere, sensible, affectionate pouring out of the soul to God, through Christ, in the strength and assistance of the Spirit, for such things as God has promised. Author: John Bunyan
Topics: Prayer, Holy Spirit | | Here is the life of prayer, when in or with the Spirit, a man being made sensible of sin, and how to come to the Lord for mercy; he comes, I say, in the strength of the Spirit, and crieth Father. That one word spoken in faith, is better than a thousand prayers, as men call them, written and read, in a formal, cold, lukewarm way. Author: John Bunyan
Topics: Faith, Mercy | | The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt. Author: John Chrysostom
Topics: Prayer | | Princes, kings, and other rulers of the world have used all their strength and cunning against the Church, yet it continues to endure and hold its own. Author: John Foxe
Topics: Persecution, Perseverance, Endurance | | Let us seek the grace of a cheerful heart, an even temper, sweetness, gentleness, and brightness of mind, as walking in His light, and by His grace. Let us pray to Him to give us the spirit of ever-abundant, everspringing love, which overpowers and sweeps away the vexations of life by its own richness and strength, and which, above all things, unites us to Him who is the fountain and the centre of all mercy, loving-kindness, and joy. Author: John Henry Newman
Topics: Grace, Cheerfulness, Gentleness | | Experience is the Lord's school, and they who are taught by Him usually learn by the mistakes they make that in themselves they have no wisdom; and by their slips and falls, that they have no strength. Author: John Newton
Topics: Humility | | Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord; that chastisements are a token of His love; that the season, measure, and continuance of his sufferings, are appointed by Infinite Wisdom, and designed to work for his everlasting good; and that grace and strength shall be afforded him, according to his need. Author: John Newton
Source: Letters.
Topics: Faith, Trials, Chastisement | | Mortification from a self-strength, carried on by ways of self-invention, unto the end of a self-righteousness is the soul and substance of all false religion... The Spirit alone is sufficient for this work. All ways and means without Him are useless. He is the great efficient. He is the One who gives life and strength to our efforts. Author: John Owen
Source: Temptation and Sin, 1958, p. 7, 16.
Topics: Self-righteousness, Holy Spirit | | Think of the guilt of sin, that you may be humbled. Think of the power of sin, that you may seek strength against it. Think not of the matter of sin...lest you be more and more entangled. Author: John Owen
Topics: Humility, Strength | | A Methodist (Christian) is one who loves the Lord his God with all his heart, with all his soul, with all his mind, and with all his strength. God is the joy of his heart, and the desire of his soul, which is continually crying, 'Whom have I in heaven but thee? and there is none upon earth whom I desire besides thee.' My God and my all! 'Thou art the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.' He is therefore happy in God; yea, always happy, as having in him a well of water springing up unto everlasting life, and over-flowing his soul with peace and joy. Perfect love living now cast out fear, he rejoices evermore. Yea, his joy is full, and all his bones cry out, 'Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who, according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten me again unto a living hope of an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled, reserved in heaven for me. Author: John Wesley
Topics: Christians, Faithful | | Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you. Author: Joni Eareckson Tada
Topics: Humility, Weakness, Strength | | Like supernatural effervescence, praise will sometimes bubble up from the joy of simply knowing Christ. Praise like that is...delight. Pure pleasure! But praise can also be supernatural determination. A decisive action. Praise like that is...quiet resolve. Fixed devotion. Strength of spirit. Author: Joni Eareckson Tada
Topics: Praise, Joy | | If we didn't have to stand against temptation, we'd never know our own spiritual strength. Author: Joyce Meyer
Topics: Temptation | | Our society is filled with runaways, dropouts, and quitters. The epidemic of walking away has hit our land with effects as devastating as the bubonic plague, and it has destroyed millions of effective lives and relationships. We are so self-centred that we have ceased to lay down our lives for others. We have seen others faint or walk away and we have followed in their weakness. We have fainted when we could have persevered by exchanging our strength for His! With His strength, not only could we have kept on walking, we could have run! Author: Kay Arthur
Topics: Relationships, Selfishness, Weakness | | So many times we say that we can't serve God because we aren't whatever is needed. We're not talented enough or smart enough or whatever. But if you are in covenant with Jesus Christ, He is responsible for covering your weaknesses, for being your strength. He will give you His abilities for your disabilities! Author: Kay Arthur
Topics: Perseverance, Weakness, Strength | | How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV? Author: Leonard Ravenhill
Topics: Apathy | | Would you exert all your powers to attain Divine Union? Use all your strength for the destruction of self. Author: Madame Guyon
Topics: Humility | | Original sin is in us, like the beard. We are shaved today and look clean, and have a smooth chin; tomorrow our beard has grown again, nor does it cease growing while we remain on earth. In like manner original sin cannot be extirpated from us; it springs up in us as long as we live. Nevertheless we are bound to resist it to our utmost strength, and to cut it down unceasingly. Author: Martin Luther
Topics: Sin | | I have always found it depressing to listen to the kind of people who, whenever you meet them, will always for sure tell you the story of their conversion many years ago. They tell you that story every time. I have known people do exactly the same thing with revival. There is always something about an initial experience that is remarkable and outstanding. And a time of revival is so amazing and wonderful that it is not surprising that people go on talking about it. But, if they give the impression that they have had nothing since that wonderful experience, that ever after they have been walking through a wilderness, and travelling through a desert, then it is absolutely wrong. Their idea of the Christian life is of a dramatic experience, perhaps at the outset, after which they just trudge along, living on the strength of that and partly keeping their eye turned backwards as they go forward. Author: Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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Found 65 quotes containing your search: | I am mended by my sickness, enriched by my poverty, and strengthened by my weakness. Author: Abraham Wright
Topics: Affliction, Strength | | The risen life of Jesus is the nourishment and strengthening and blessing and life of a Christian. Our daily experience ought to be that there comes, wavelet by wavelet, that silent, gentle, and yet omnipotent influx into our empty hearts, this very life of Christ Himself. Author: Alexander MacLaren
Topics: Resurrection | Everything science has taught me - and continues to teach me - strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. Nothing disappears without a trace.
- Wernher Von Braun Author: Assorted Authors
Topics: Heaven | | Breath in me, O Holy Spirit, that my thoughts may all be holy. Act in me, O Holy Spirit, that my work, too, may be holy. Draw my heart, O Holy Spirit, that I love but what is holy. Strengthen me, O Holy Spirit, to defend all that is holy. Guard me, then, O Holy Spirit, that I always may be holy. Author: Augustine
Topics: Holy Spirit | | Love as distinct from "being in love" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by the grace which both partners ask, and receive from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself. Author: C.S. Lewis
Source: Mere Christianity, p. 99.
Topics: Love, Marriage | | Prayer is the way you defeat the devil, reach the lost, restore a backslider, strengthen the saints, send missionaries out, cure the sick, accomplish the impossible, and know the will of God. Author: David Jeremiah
Topics: Prayer, Backsliding, Missions | | The prayers of God's saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil. Author: E.M. Bounds
Topics: Prayer, Good and Evil | | Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse for the preacher. Thought is not only brightened and clarified in prayer, but thought is born in prayer. Author: E.M. Bounds
Topics: Prayer, Preaching, Teachers | | Trials should not surprise us, or cause us to doubt God's faithfulness. Rather, we should actually be glad for them. God sends trials to strengthen our trust in him so that our faith will not fail. Our trials keep us trusting; they burn away our self confidence and drive us to our Saviour. Author: Edmund Clowney
Topics: Trials, Faith | | A holy act strengthens the inward holiness. It is a seed of life growing into more life. Author: Frederick W. Robertson
Topics: Holiness, Strength | | If we desire our faith to be strengthened, we should not shrink from opportunities where our faith may be tried, and therefore, through trial, be strengthened. Author: George Mueller
Topics: Faith, Strength, Trials | | Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Author: Helen Keller
Topics: Suffering, Character, Strength | | As a weak limb grows stronger by exercise, so will your faith be strengthened by the very efforts you make in stretching it out toward things unseen. Author: James H. Aughey
Topics: Faith | | Marriage has in it less of beauty, but more of safety, than the single life; it hath not more ease, but less danger; it is more merry and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but is supported by all the strengths of love and charity; and those burdens are delightful. Author: Jeremy Taylor
Topics: Marriage | | Look how fears have presented themselves, so have supports and encouragements; yea, when I have started, even as it were at nothing else but my shadow, yet God, as being very tender of me, hath not suffered me to be molested, but would with one Scripture or another, strengthen me against all; insomuch that I have often said, Were it lawful, I could pray for greater trouble, for the greater comfort's sake. Author: John Bunyan
Topics: Fear, Comfort | | Prayer for others is very beneficial to the man himself who prays; it purifies the heart, strengthens faith and hope in God, and arouses love for God and our neighbor. Author: John of Kronstadt
Topics: Intercession | | God is more concerned with conforming me to the likeness of His Son than leaving me in my comfort zones. God is more interested in inward qualities than outward circumstances - things like refining my faith, humbling my heart, cleaning up my thought life and strengthening my character. Author: Joni Eareckson Tada
Topics: Character, Circumstances | | God is with you, and He'll help you make spiritual progress--strengthening and encouraging you to keep on keeping on during rough times. It's easy to quit, but it takes faith to press on to victory. Author: Joyce Meyer
Topics: Victory | | The tragedy is that many of us are living desperate Christian life. Sunday comes and we get some strength, and then we lose some on Monday; a good deal is gone by Tuesday and we wonder whether we have anything left. On Wednesday it has all gone and then we exist. Or perhaps refreshment comes in some other way, some meeting we attend, some friends we meet. Now that is the old order of things, that is not the new. He puts a well within us. We are not always drawing from somewhere outside. The well, the spring, goes on springing up from within into everlasting life. Author: Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Topics: Christians | | It is grace at the beginning, and grace at the end. So that when you and I come to lie upon our death beds, the one thing that should comfort and help and strengthen us there is the thing that helped us in the beginning. Not what we have been, not what we have done, but the Grace of God in Jesus Christ our Lord. The Christian life starts with grace, it must continue with grace, it ends with grace. Grace wondrous grace. By the grace of God I am what I am. Yet not I, but the Grace of God which was with me. Author: Martyn Lloyd-Jones
Topics: Grace, Death | | We have no sufficient strength of our own. All our sufficiency is of God. We should stir up ourselves to resist temptations in a reliance upon God's all-sufficiency and the omnipotence of his might. Author: Matthew Henry
Topics: Temptation, Strength | | Two types of voices command your attention today. Negative ones fill your mind with doubt, bitterness, and fear. Positive ones purvey hope and strength. Which one will you choose to heed? Author: Max Lucado
Topics: Perseverance | | Only in the Cross of Christ will we receive power when we are powerless. We will find strength when we are weak. We will experience hope when our situation is hopeless. Only in the Cross is there peace for our troubled hearts. Author: Michael Youssef
Topics: The Cross, Power | | Notice carefully every word here. It is not our prayer which draws Jesus into our hearts. Nor is it our prayer which moves Jesus to come in to us. All He needs is access. He enters in of His own accord, because He desires to come in. To pray is nothing more involved than to let Jesus into our needs, and permitting Him to exercise His own power in dealing with them. And that requires no strength. It is only a question of our wills. Will we give Jesus access to our needs?. Author: Ole Hallesby
Topics: Prayer | | In the midst of the awesomeness, a touch comes, and you know it is the right hand of Jesus Christ. You know it is not the hand of restraint, correction, nor chastisement, but the right hand of the Everlasting Father. Whenever His hand is laid upon you, it gives inexpressible peace and comfort, and the sense that "underneath are the everlasting arms," (Deuteronomy 33:27) full of support, provision, comfort and strength. Author: Oswald Chambers
Topics: Peace, Comfort, Chastisement | | God never gives strength for tomorrow, or for the next hour, but only for the strain of the minute. Author: Oswald Chambers
Topics: Grace, Strength | | God desires to show His power through your storm, but is your lack of faith keeping Him from doing so? God brings storms into your life to show His strength and to gain glory from His providence. Author: Paul Chappell
Topics: Trials, Providence | | To say, 'well done' to any bit of good work is to take hold of the powers which have made the effort and strengthen them beyond our knowledge. Author: Phillips Brooks
Topics: Encouragement | | It is possible for you to do all things through Christ strengthening you, even to overleap the highest walls, to break bows of steel in pieces, and wade through the deepest fords in your way. Author: Ralph Erskine
Topics: Strength | | And the longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree? Author: Richard Baxter
Topics: Sin | | Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf, unbelief starves the soul; faith finds food in famine, and a table in the wilderness. In the greatest danger, faith says, "I have a great God." When outward strength is broken, faith rests on the promises. In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction. Author: Richard Cecil
Topics: Faith, Good and Evil, Bitterness | | Philosophy is a proud, sullen detector of the poverty and misery of man. It may turn him from the world with a proud, sturdy contempt; but it cannot come forward and say, here are rest, grace, pardon, peace, strength, and consolation. Author: Richard Cecil
Topics: Philosophy | | When we shoot an arrow, we look to the fall of it; when we send a ship to sea, we look for its return; and when we sow seed, we look for a harvest; so likewise when we sow our prayers, through Christ, in God's bosom, shall we not look for an answer and observe how we speed? It is a seed of atheism to pray and not to look how we speed. But a sincere Christian will pray and wait, and strengthen his heart with promises out of the Word, and never leave praying and looking up till God gives him a gracious answer. Author: Richard Sibbes
Topics: Prayer, Perseverance | | As the strongest faith may be shaken, so the weakest, where truth is, is so far rooted that it will prevail. Weakness with watchfulness will stand, when strength with too much confidence fails. Weakness, with acknowledgment of it, is the fittest seat and subject for God to perfect His strength in; for consciousness of our infirmities drives us out of ourselves to Him in whom our strength lies. Author: Richard Sibbes
Topics: Weakness | | The purest joy in the world is joy in Christ Jesus. When the Spirit is poured down, His people get very near and clear views of the Lord Jesus. They eat His flesh and drink His blood. They come to a personal cleaving to the Lord. They taste that the Lord is gracious. His blood and righteousness appear infinitely perfect, full, and free to their souls. They sit under His shadow with great delight. They rest in the cleft of the rock. Their defense is the munitions of rocks. They lean on the Beloved. They find infinite strength in Him for the use of their soul - grace for grace - all they can need in any hour of trial and suffering to the very end. Author: Robert Murray McCheyne
Topics: Jesus, Joy | | If there be anything that can render the soul calm, dissipate its scruples and dispel its fears, sweeten its sufferings by the anointing of love, impart strength to all its actions, and spread abroad the joy of the Holy Spirit in its countenance and words, it is this simple and childlike repose in the arms of God. Author: S.D. Gordon
Topics: Rest, Prayer | | Prayer wonderfully clears the vision; steadies the nerves; defines duty; stiffens the purpose; sweetens and strengthens the spirit. Author: S.D. Gordon
Topics: Prayer, Strength | | The Church is the Body of Christ, and the Spirit is the Spirit of Christ. He fills the Body, directs its movements, controls its members, inspires its wisdom, supplies it's strength. He guides into truth, sanctifies its agents, and empowers for witnessing. The Spirit has never abdicated His authority nor relegated His power. Author: Samuel Chadwick
Topics: Holy Spirit, Authority, Witnessing | | The doctrines of the gospel are meant to mould us so that our lives begin to 'set' in the likeness of Christ. We have made little or no impression upon the world, for the very reason that the gospel doctrine has made a correspondingly slight impression upon us. It cannot be overemphasized that men and women who have accomplished anything in God's strength have always done so on the basis of their grasp of truth. Author: Sinclair B. Ferguson
Topics: The Gospel, Life, Holiness | | When the New Testament speaks about the fullness of grace which we find in Christ, it does not mean only forgiveness, pardon and justification. Christ has done much more for us. He died for us, but he also lived for us. Now he has sent his own Spirit to us so that we might draw on his strength. He grew in grace, and when we draw on his power we shall likewise grow in grace. Author: Sinclair B. Ferguson
Topics: Holy Spirit, Growth | | It seems to me better to get the Book of books for food for your soul, for the strengthening of your faith, and the building up of your character in God, so that all the time you are being changed and made meet to walk with God. Author: Smith Wigglesworth
Topics: Scripture, Faith | | Occasions of adversity best discover how great virtue or strength each one hath. For occasions do not make a man frail, but they show what he is. Author: Thomas a Kempis
Topics: Character, Strength | | He who stands upon his own strength will never stand. Author: Thomas Brooks
Topics: Stubbornness, Strength | | Repentance is a grace, and must have its daily operation, as well as other graces. A true penitent must go on from faith to faith, from strength to strength; he must never stand still or turn back. True repentance is a continued spring, where the waters of godly sorrow are always flowing. 'My sin is ever before me'. Author: Thomas Brooks
Topics: Repentance | | Make no vows to perform this or that; it shows no great strength, and makes thee ride behind thyself. Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Character, Discretion | | Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship. Author: Thomas Fuller
Topics: Discretion | | By delay of repentance, sin strengthens, and the heart hardens. The longer ice freezeth, the harder it is to be broken. Author: Thomas Watson
Source: A Puritan Golden Treasury
Topics: Rebellion | A man should be like tea; his real strength appearing when he gets in hot water.
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Topics: Character, Strength | | God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever. Author: Vance Havner
Topics: Brokenness | | The remedy for discouragement is the Word of God. When you feed your heart and mind with its truth, you regain your perspective and find renewed strength. Author: Warren Wiersbe
Topics: Discouragement, Scripture, Strength | | Natural strength is what we receive from the hand of God as Creator. Spiritual strength is what we receive from God in grace. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Grace | | What he needs is not increased spiritual teaching but an obedient heart which is willing to yield his life to the Holy Spirit and go the way of the cross according to the Spirit's command. Increased spiritual teaching will only strengthen his carnality and serve to deceive him into conceiving himself as spiritual. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Carnality, Obedience, The Cross | | Prayer is the acid test of the inner man's strength. A strong spirit is capable of praying much and praying with all perseverance until the answer comes. A weak one grows weary and fainthearted in the maintenance of praying. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Prayer, Strength | | In order for the inner man to be strengthened with power through the Holy Spirit, the children of God must discharge their responsibility. They need to yield specifically to the Lord, forsake every doubtful aspect in their life, be willing to obey fully God's will, and believe through prayer that He will flood their spirit with His power. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Holy Spirit, Responsibility, Power | | Despite a great revival in Samaria, Philip was not responsible for the follow-up labor of strengthening. He must leave immediately for the desert in order that a "heathen" eunuch might be saved. Ananias had not heard of Saul's conversion, but he could not refuse to go to pray for Saul when sent, though by standards of human judgment he was casting his life away by walking directly into the persecutor's hand. How then dare we follow our mind, emotion or will if even the Apostles did not move on that basis?. How people today have seized upon reason, thought, idea, feeling, wish and desire as the governing factors in work! Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Reasoning | | If we labor by the revelation of the Holy Spirit and in His strength, our audience shall be convinced and have their spirits enlivened by God. Else what we give them simply becomes a masterful idea which may stimulate temporarily but leaves no lasting result. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Holy Spirit | | Resistance is one of the indispensable elements in spiritual combat. The best defense is a continuous offense. Oppose with the will as well as with the strength in the spirit. How shall we resist? With the Word of God which is the Sword of the Holy Spirit. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Scripture | | One thing is unmistakable: the soul is affected by outside influences, but not the spirit. For example, when the soul is provided with beautiful scenery, serene nature, inspiring music, or many other phenomena pertaining to the external world, it can be moved instantly and respond strongly. Not so the spirit. Hence those that are genuinely spiritual can be active whether or not their soul has feeling or their body has strength. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Holy Spirit, Nature | | Timidity is not humility. While humility is self-forgetfulness completely- a forgetting both its weakness and strength-timidity recalls all the weakness and hence is self-remembering. God does not delight in our cowardice and withdrawal. Author: Watchman Nee
Topics: Humility, Weakness | | Humble souls are fearful of their own strength. Author: William Gurnall
Topics: Humility, Strength | | Therefore tremble, O man, at any power thou hast, except thou usest it for God. Art thou strong in body; who hath thy strength? God, or thy lusts? Author: William Gurnall
Topics: Lust, Power | | Furnish thyself with arguments from the promises to enforce thy prayers, and make them prevalent with God. The promises are the ground of faith, and faith, when strengthened, will make thee fervent, and such fervency ever speeds and returns with victory out of the field of prayer. The mightier any is in the Word, the more mighty he will be in prayer. Author: William Gurnall
Topics: Prayer, Faith, Victory | | We are looking for our own virtue, our own piety, our own goodness, and so live on and in our own poverty and weakness - today pleased and comforted with the seeming firmness and strength of our own pious tempers and fancying ourselves to be somewhat. Tomorrow, fallen into our own mire, we are dejected, but not humbled; we grieve, but it is only the grief of pride at the seeing our perfection not to be such as we had vainly imagined. And thus it will be, till the whole turn of our minds be so changed that we as fully see and know our inability to have any goodness of our own as to have a life of our own. Author: William Law
Topics: Pride, Grief, Virtue | | To choose a career on selfish grounds is probably the greatest single sin that any young person can commit, for it is the deliberate withdrawal from allegiance to God of the greatest part of time and strength. Author: William Temple
Topics: Work, Selfishness | | God uses the wicked to strengthen the resolve of the righteous. Author: Woodrow Kroll
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