Charles Hodge Quotes

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

God never makes us sensible of our weakness except to give us of His strength.

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.

Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.

My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.

Faith in God... produces character; character will produce courage, courage to face the challenges of the day.

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

Let us watch against unbelief, pride, and self-confidence. If we go forth in our own strength, we shall faint, and utterly fall; but, waiting on the Lord, out of weakness we shall be made strong. Having our hearts and our hopes in heaven, we shall be carried above all difficulties, and be enabled to press forward and lay hold of the prize of our high calling in Christ Jesus.

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

Deny your weakness, and you will never realize God's strength in you.

We should not be discouraged or depressed by our shortcomings. No one is without weakness. As part of the divine plan, we are tested to see whether we master weakness or let weakness master us. Proper diagnosis is essential to proper treatment. The Lord gave us this remarkable assurance: "Because thou hast seen thy weakness thou shalt be made strong" (Ether 12:37). But wishing for strength won't make us strong. It takes faith and work to shore up a weakened cord of integrity.

Not to the swift, the race: Not to the strong, the fight: Not to the righteous, perfect grace: Not to the wise, the light. But often faltering feet Come surest to the goal; And they who walk in darkness meet The sunrise of the soul.

The true secret of spiritual strength is self-distrust and deep humilty.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

When you face the perils of weariness, carelessness, and confusion, don't pray for an easier life. Pray instead to be a stronger man or woman of God.

If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it.

Asking in faith requires honesty, effort, commitment, and persistence.

God is waiting eagerly to respond with new strength to each little act of self-control, small disciplines of prayer, feeble searching after him. And his children shall be filled if they will only hunger and thirst after what he offers.

I love to have confidence, but that confidence doesn't come from myself. It comes from God, and that's what I wanted America to see.

There is nothing special about Tim Scott. I'm an ordinary guy serving an extraordinary God and that makes the difference.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

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.

Sometimes it looks like God's abandoned you, but not for any reason. To make your faith grow and to see that, no matter what happens, you come out OK... It's all for your good. It's all for love, and it's all for making you a strong person.