Quotes About Resilience

We see that all those harsh realities aren't the end, but rather a temporary middle space. Not the place where we are meant to wallow and dwell. Rather the place through which we will have to learn to wrestle well.

I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad--and what she has is always a package deal of both.

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret." In other words, taste a little bit of the shame of letting it all rip before you find yourself drowning in gallons of unwanted regret.

lion looking for someone to devour.

Rejection isn't just an emotional feeling. It's a message that alters what you believe about yourself. And the minute you sense that happening is the minute you must stop the runaway thinking with truth.

Have you ever had a "worst mom ever" day? Take heart, so have we all. Take my friend's advice. Apologize to your children. Ask God for forgiveness. Get over it and stop letting Satan drag you down. Spend time with the Lord getting a new attitude, and He'll help you leave the dams to the beavers!

Progresa. Solo progresa. Está bien tener reveses y la necesidad de volver a hacerlo. Está bien trazar una línea en la arena y empezar de nuevo… y de nuevo. Solo asegúrate de seguir moviendo la línea hacia delante. Avanza. Da pasitos de bebé, pero al menos da pasos que impidan que te quedes atascada. Entonces vendrá el cambio. Y será bueno.

Even amid hardship, trials, and things that don't go the way we want them to, we can find something to be joyful about.

She refuses to be a victim of a circumstance she can't fully change. Instead she changes what she can.

We've survived what we feared. But can we survive the remembering? Memories are both our greatest treasures and our greatest sorrows.

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.

Married or not, don't let what breaks your heart destroy your life. Hold fast to Jesus and remember: This breaking of you will be the making of you.

The resulting hurt of any form of rejection can linger and entangle us from moving forward if we don't put it behind us.

We can't always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on God. We can do that.

You can't edit reality to try and force healing. You can't fake yourself into being okay with what happened. But you can decide that the one who hurt you doesn't get to decide what you do with your memories. Your life can be a graceful combination of beautiful and painful.

Even when people turned on Jesus, He didn't let a goodbye turn Him into someone He was never meant to be

Though it felt so permanent at the time, in the scope of my life, I can now see it was truly just a short-term setback from which the Lord delivered me.

Even if life handed me love, I suspiciously waited for it to be snatched away.

The breaking of us has actually been the making of us . . . the God-strengthened us He could use.

Trauma isn't just something that happens to you. It happens in you

Today's rejections, big or subtle, are like stealth bombs that zing straight to my core, locating hurts from my past and making them agonizingly present all over again.

We must be aware that desperation breeds degradation. In other words, when what is lacking in life goes from being an annoyance to an anxiety we run the risk of compromising in ways we never thought we would.

Heartbreaking seasons can certainly grow me but were never meant to define me.

I can't control the things that happen to me each day, but I can control how I think about them.