Lex Luger Quotes

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

If you want to run the show, God will let you. If you want to pull all the strings, that's up to you. If you want to insist that what you are doing is the way it should be done, even when you are not getting anywhere, go right ahead. God will let you run yourself ragged, if you choose to do so. Unfortunately, you may not always be aware that you are in God's way. . . . God has no need to prove to you what God can do.

You come to God not by being strong, but by being weak; not by being right, but through your mistakes.

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.

I believe in the power of weakness.

Christ removed self as the force in His perfect life. It was, 'Not my will, but thine be done.'

True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself.

I gave in, and admitted that God was God.

When our Lord says, we must be converted and become as little children, I suppose he means also, that we must be sensible of our weakness, comparatively speaking, as a little child.

Humility may well be one of the most difficult of the fruit of the Spirit to be cultivated in us - and to maintain. That's because without humility, it's not likely that you will put your complete trust in God.

Baseball is so performance-based. It's what have you done for me lately. I can get a lot of pressure and you can feel that, but if your life is given to God and your into Jesus there's really no pressure because at the end of the day your life is in His control and you surrender to that.

I have to be very humble. I know that anything I do is through God. Through me, God can make a miracle. The most you can do is to think and create all love, all grace, all power, all health. When you do that, amazing things can happen. But the day I think that I'm doing a miracle myself is a foolish day for me.

You pray for things, and you know, we all have our wishlists, but I've learned to pray for whatever's in your will.

Prayer is not passive. It takes a big man to pray - and to admit that he prays.

The way to grow strong in Christ is to become weak in yourself.

God does everything through people who understand they're nothing. And God does nothing through those who think they're everything.

When God is our strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only weakness.

Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

As long as you pretend to be self-sufficient, you short-circuit God's power in your life. You need to admit your inadequacy and say, "God, I can't handle this!"

The smaller you get-the smaller life makes you-the easier it is to see the grandeur of grace. While I am far more incapable than I may have initially thought, God is infinitely more capable than I ever hoped.

God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.

We can choose to humble ourselves by loving God, adjusting our will to His, and putting Him first in our lives.

Suffering reveals to us the two things that ultimately matter: that we are weak but He is strong.

Sometimes God has to remind you that you're weak so that you can be set free from your "self-sufficiency."