Quotes About Resilience

Therefore, since God in His mercy has given us this ministry, we do not lose heart.

We are hard pressed on all sides, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair;

persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed.

So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, yet our inner self is being renewed day by day.

Rather, as servants of God we commend ourselves in every way: in great endurance; in troubles, hardships, and calamities;

in beatings, imprisonments, and riots; in labor, sleepless nights, and hunger;

as unknown, yet well-known; dying, and yet we live on; punished, yet not killed;

For though we live in the flesh, we do not wage war according to the flesh.

The weapons of our warfare are not the weapons of the world. Instead, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.

In fact, you even put up with anyone who enslaves you or exploits you or takes advantage of you or exalts himself or strikes you in the face.

Five times I received from the Jews the forty lashes minus one.

Three times I was beaten with rods, once I was stoned, three times I was shipwrecked. I spent a night and a day in the open sea.

In my frequent journeys, I have been in danger from rivers and from bandits, in danger from my countrymen and from the Gentiles, in danger in the city and in the country, in danger on the sea and among false brothers,

But I was lowered in a basket through a window in the wall and escaped his grasp.

Therefore take up the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you will be able to stand your ground, and having done everything, to stand.

In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

I am not saying this out of need, for I have learned to be content regardless of my circumstances.

I know how to live humbly, and I know how to abound. I am accustomed to any and every situation—to being filled and being hungry, to having plenty and having need.

For we wanted to come to you—indeed I, Paul, tried again and again—but Satan obstructed us.

Indeed, when we were with you, we kept warning you that we would suffer persecution; and as you know, it has come to pass.

But as for you, brothers, do not grow weary in well-doing.

for which I suffer to the extent of being chained like a criminal. But the word of God cannot be chained!

But understand this: In the last days terrible times will come.