Quotes About Empowerment

Navigating a white male world was not threatening. It wasn't even interesting. I was more interesting than they were.

If you can only be tall because someone else is on their knees, then you have serious problem.

Because each had discovered years before that they were neither white nor male, and that all freedom and triumph were forbidden to them, they had set about creating something else to be

Own things. And let the things you own own other things.

I don't want to make somebody else. I want to make myself.

Either I am to live in this world on my terms or I will die out of it.

Knowing his label provided him with both comfort and courage, he believed that to name an evil was to neutralize if not annihilate it.

Some of them had to have Bible verses read to them because they could not decipher print themselves, so they had sharpened the skills of the illiterate: perfect memory, photographic minds, keen senses of smell and hearing.

The only way to own what I know is to write it and let you read what I write

I only know that I will never again trust my life, my future, to the whims of men, in companies or out. Never again will their judgment have anything to do with what I think I can do.

Did you ever see the way clouds love a mountain? They circle all around it; sometimes you can't even see the mountain for all the clouds. But you know what? You go up top and what do you see? His head. The clouds never cover the head. His head pokes through, because the clouds let him; they don't wrap him up. They let him keep his head up high, free, with nothing to hide him or bind him.

She needed what most colored girls needed: a chorus of mamas, grandmamas, aunts, cousins, sisters, neighbors, Sunday school teachers, best girl friends, and what all to give her strength life demanded of her- and the humor with which to live it.

Churches must extend their influence beyond the lives of church members to impact the broader community that they serve.

God has already told you in His Word how to find your greatest source of strength—it's your closeness to Him. It is in this location—right next to Christ—that you are supposed to "stand firm.

In essence, God let Moses know that even when people aren't able to fulfill the calling on their lives, if they will recognize Him as Adonai, He can make them fully capable. God doesn't always call the equipped, but He always equips the called.

Many believers today don't realize that even though we received the Holy Spirit when we trusted in Christ for salvation from our sins, the ongoing dwelling of the Holy Spirit's presence is something we need to seek on a regular basis. Just as driving your car is difficult if it's running on fumes, living the victorious Christian life is impossible without the flame of the Spirit burning bright.

Los problemas que surgen en nuestra vida de oración se deben a que muy pocos de nosotros comprendemos realmente cuáles son nuestros derechos espirituales.

Of all of the places on the planet, your marriage should be that one place where you are encouraged, reminded of your strengths, and given the motivation you need to live out those strengths well.

La fe nunca implica falta de acción. La fe es un deporte participativo. Significa actuar conforme a la verdad que Dios dice. O como me oirás decir varias veces: La fe actúa como si algo fuera así aunque no lo sea, para que así sea solo porque Dios así lo dijo.

Let your words and actions be seasoned with encouragement so others are stronger after being with you.

But let us keep in mind Philippians 2:13: "It is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure." When your will is combined with God's will, He gives you the power to do what your will is telling you you ought to do. You are not fighting this battle alone. You have tremendous power available to you in Christ.

Learning to walk or live in the power of the Holy Spirit is the key to victory over sin and temptation. Paul

All evil begins with this belief: that another's existence is less precious than mine.

Bowlin was previously divorced and had learned a thing or two. Set of titties or a college education-buy either of those for your old lady and she's done, he said, She doesn't need you anymore.