Quotes About Empowerment

Trusting God means believing He lives in you, and all that is His is yours. Be strong and courageous and never give up, and you will have everything He wants you to have in life.

Too many commitments will keep us from developing our potential. Letting other people control us will keep us from developing our potential. Not knowing how to say no will keep us from developing our potential. Getting overly involved in someone else's goals and vision or becoming entangled in someone else's problems instead of keeping our eyes on our own goals will keep us from fulfilling our potential.

We don't wait for things to happen to us; we happen to things.

No, world! You are not going to do this to me any longer. I am not going to live on this crazy merry-go-round with no way off of it. I know what I am supposed to do, and I am going to do it. If you don't like it, talk to God. He is the One Who put this vision in me, and I am not going to frustrate myself all my life just to please you.

mind-binding spirits

He says that you have gifts and talents and abilities; you are capable; anything He asks you to do you can do; you are strong in the Lord and not weak; you are forgiven; and on and on and on.

Forget about self-confidence; it's useless. Cultivate God-confidence. —1 CORINTHIANS 10:11–12 THE MESSAGE

Anxiety does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, but only empties today of its strength. —Charles Spurgeon

But remember that freedom from fear doesn't mean the absence of its existence, but the refusal to let it control your decisions and actions.

But the Lord said to me, Say not, I am only a youth; for you shall go to all to whom I shall send you, and whatever I command you, you shall speak. Be not afraid of them [their faces], for I am with you to deliver you, says the Lord. —JEREMIAH 1:7–8

When you choose God's will, the Holy Spirit will energize you to live out that decision.

I lived through this horror, I can take the next thing that comes along . . .' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.'" She learned that "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Para mí, nada se siente mejor que saber que estoy haciendo todo lo que puedo, estoy tomando las mejores decisiones que puedo tomar, y estoy haciendo progreso regularmente hacia la mejor vida que Dios tiene para mí.

I am a new creation in Christ (see 2 Corinthians 5:17). I can live in perfect peace (see Isaiah 26:3). I am slow to speak, quick to hear, and slow to anger (see James 1:19). I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me (see Philippians 4:13). I am more than a conqueror in Christ (see Romans 8:37). I can have the mind of Christ (see 1 Corinthians 2:16). I am dead to sin and alive to righteousness (see Romans 6:11).

Listen to me ... and I want you to remember this. Your legs are part of you, but not all of you or what you are. So wherever we go after tonight, I need you to know that you are no less for the injury. Even if you are in a chair, you still stand as tall as you ever did. Height is just a vertical number - it doesn't mean shit when it comes to your character or the kind of life you live.

that struggling individual on the brink of collective identity

That my agency is riven with paradox does not mean it is impossible. It means only that paradox is the condition of its possibility.

How foolish to yearn to ask the very person who'd caused the pain to heal it

You can't live your life to suit other people. The harder you try, the more restrictions they'll put on you just for the fun of seeing you jump through their hoops.

Nor is he man enough to make a woman of you.

If things are better for women there, it is due to a profound and enduring social consensus that life should be made livable based on who they are and not on an abstract moralistic notion of how they ought to be.

but you don't want your fears to limit your possibilities.

I must—I must—I must increase my bust.

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