Quotes About Resilience

The Enemy, however, was working in his life just like he does in ours: waiting him out. The Enemy is a patient foe and deceives us into thinking we can manage. We assume if Satan can't take us out on night one, he'll give up. But Satan will wait us out for decades if necessary.

I know a lot of us feel like that. We come to a place where we're walking through the fires and trials of life, and we don't know where to turn. What we need is a fresh start. We need our story to go in a new direction. What we need is a comeback of our own.

no matter what we might be walking through, we can still have confidence that Jesus is the God of the comeback and that our story is not over as long as Jesus is in it.

Don't dismiss the idea of a comeback if you're someone who is already saved and walking faithfully with the Lord. You may need a fresh start after you find that your dreams—holy dreams—have crashed into pieces at your feet.

Chances are good that you once had a dream—a big, noble, beautiful dream—that you could envision coming true, but that dream was snatched away. An experience like that leaves you longing for a comeback.

We need to fight a battle to see this truth. When bad things happen, the Enemy comes through the door and tells us that God doesn't love us anymore and has no plan for us, and then we tend to bail out on God.

The Devil wants nothing more than to crush you. He wants to steal from you everything you value. He wants to kill everything in your life that's good. Ultimately, he wants to destroy you. If he can claim the victory over your mind, he can eventually claim the victory over your life. But the message of Psalm 23 is that the Good Shepherd prepares a table for you. It's a table for two, and the Devil is not invited to sit.

i'm not ok but Jesus is

The prophet Micah preached to his downtrodden people: Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen [true, not to be minimized], I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light. (7:8 NIV)

Learning to let God help you keep your cool during the little stuff makes it easier to keep your cool when the big things come around.

Without protection temptations can wear you down. But God promises to wrap you in His bubble of protection. Talk to Him and tell Him what's tempting you. When temptation tries to trap you, God promises to help you escape.

Dear Lord, when storms come—in the skies, in the people around me, or in my heart—help me to remember that You are right there with me and that You are bigger than any storm!

My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.

Where the rock's nakedness repels the shy foot, where the discouraged plant will no longer spread the seduction of its seed, where the ice-axe strikes only sparks, there I have found my pasture, above the blue kingdom of the flies. I am an animal of the heights.

La vie aura passé comme un grand château triste que tous les vents traversent".

I don't give a damn what people think.

She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.

Jak to wyrazi? Carl Jung: "Pogód? si? ze swoim smutkiem, bowiem w nim wzro?nie twoja dusza".

Zo ging het leven onafgebroken en eentonig voort, als met een zenuwachtig egoïstisch materialisme: er werd geleden en er daalde geen algemeen rouwfloers neer op de wereld; er werd geleden en toch bleef alles het zelfde en lachte men, sliep men, at men rondom dat leed.

Love itself is what is left over when being "in love" has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two.