Quotes About Resilience

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy a strength a secret cup of gladness.

Whenever you fall, pick something up.

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

Let circumstances take you where they will, but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find yourself.

Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.

Drudgery is one of the finest touchstones of character there is. Drudgery is work that is very far removed from anything to do with the ideal - the utterly mean grubby things; and when we come in contact with them we know instantly whether or not we are spiritually real.

Build your hope on Him. No matter how many things seem to be pressing in on you, be determined to push them aside and look to Him. "Look to Me. . .

said—"Let not your heart be troubled." God will not keep your heart from being troubled. It is a command—"Let not.

Receiving Yourself in the Fires of Sorrow

If your life is producing only a whine, instead of the wine, then ruthlessly kick it out. It is definitely a crime for a Christian to be weak in God's strength.

We say that there ought to be no sorrow, but thereis sorrow, and we have to accept and receive ourselves in its fires. If we try to evade sorrow, refusing to deal with it, we are foolish. Sorrow is one of the biggest facts in life, and there is no use in saying it should not be. Sin, sorrow, and suffering are, and it is not for us to say that God has made a mistake in allowing them.

Sorrow removes a great deal of a person's shallowness, but it does not always make that person better. Suffering either gives me to myself or it destroys me. You cannot find or receive yourself through success, because you lose your head over pride. And you cannot receive yourself through the monotony of your daily life, because you give in to complaining. The only way to find yourself is in the fires of sorrow.

Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two." Matthew 5:41     Our Lord's teaching can be summed up in this: the relationship that He demands for us is an impossible one unless He has done a supernatural work in us. Jesus Christ demands that His disciple does not allow even the slightest trace of resentment in his heart when faced with tyranny and injustice.

Out of the wreck I rise" every time.

We are super-victors with a joy that comes from experiencing the very things which look as if they are going to overwhelm us.

Is there something in your life that not only disturbs you, but makes you a disturbance to others? If so, it is always something you cannot handle yourself. "Then those who went before warned him that he should be quiet; but he cried out all the more" (Luke 18:39). Be persistent with your disturbance until you get face-to-face with the Lord Himself.

If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time of great personal growth ahead.

No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit, it is an inner unconquerableness.

If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?

The thing that really testifies for God and for the people of God in the long run is steady perseverance, even when the work cannot be seen by others.

Continue to persevere spiritually.

be of good cheer, I have overcome the world" (16:33). Unyielding spiritual fortitude is what we need.