Quotes About Resilience

in Ziklag; in Meconah and its villages;

By these letters the king permitted the Jews in each and every city the right to assemble and defend themselves, to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the forces of any people or province hostile to them, including women and children, and to plunder their possessions.

In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.

But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,

But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”

And Job took a piece of broken pottery to scrape himself as he sat among the ashes.

“You speak as a foolish woman speaks,” he told her. “Should we accept from God only good and not adversity?” In all this, Job did not sin in what he said.

The captives enjoy their ease; they do not hear the voice of the oppressor.

Your words have steadied those who stumbled; you have braced the knees that were buckling.

But now trouble has come upon you, and you are weary. It strikes you, and you are dismayed.

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth.

Is my strength like that of stone, or my flesh made of bronze?

Is there any help within me now that success is driven from me?

His roots wrap around the rock heap; he looks for a home among the stones.

Surely this is the joy of his way; yet others will spring from the dust.

If I were to say, ëI will forget my complaint and change my expression and smile,í

then indeed you will lift up your face without shame; you will stand firm and unafraid.

Though He slay me, I will hope in Him. I will still defend my ways to His face.

Would You frighten a windblown leaf? Would You chase after dry chaff?

For there is hope for a tree: If it is cut down, it will sprout again, and its tender shoots will not fail.

at the scent of water it will bud and put forth twigs like a sapling.

rushing headlong at Him with a thick, studded shield.