Quotes about Power

That is the secret. As the rising sun holds the promise of light for the rest of the day, so your quiet time spent waiting on God will be your promise of His presence and power throughout your day.

As much as prayer must be to the Father, and through the Son, it must be by the Spirit. And the Spirit can pray in no other way in us, than as He lives in us. It is only as we give ourselves to the Spirit living and praying in us, that the glory of the prayer-hearing God, and the ever-blessed and most effectual mediation of the Son, can be known by us in their power.

He will make His holy promise an actual reality in our conscious experience: "Lo, I am with you alway[s]" (Matt. 28:20). Let us see to it that our faith in His blessed Word, in His divine power, and in His holy abiding presence, is the one thing that masters our whole beings. Then Christ will indeed manifest Himself, abide with us, and dwell in our hearts as His home.

Your life can, through loving obedience and the indwelling of the risen Christ, be a very strong witness in the world, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Chastisement leads to the fellowship of God's Son. Only in Christ do we have the power to love and rejoice in the will of God.

Prayer is not merely coming to God to ask something from him. It is above all fellowship with God and being brought under the power of his holiness and love, till he takes possession of us and stamps our entire nature with the lowliness of Christ, which is the secret of all true worship.

Christ meant prayer to be the great power by which His church should do its work, and the neglect of prayer is the reason the church lacks greater power.

We see thus that everything depends on our own relation to the Name: the power it has on my life is the power it will have in my prayers.

The attempt to pray constantly for ourselves must be a failure; it is in intercession for others that our faith and love and perseverance will be aroused, and that power of the Spirit be found which can fit us for saving men.

God works to will, and He is ready to work to do, but, alas! many Christians misunderstand this. They think because they have the will, it is enough, and that now they are able to do. This is not so. … The power to do is not a permanent gift, but must be each moment received from the Holy Spirit.

I will not learn it until I realize that "God is love," and to claim and receive it as an indwelling power for self-sacrifice. I will not love until I begin to see that my glory, my blessedness, is to be like God and like Christ, in giving up everything in myself for my fellow-men.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.