Quotes About Overcoming

After all, could anything worse befall me that what I had suffered and was still suffering at home? No doubt, I was only heading for new chains, but they surely wouldn't seem heavier than the ones I had just ripped from my ankles...

Not all evil is final, nor is all suffering needless.

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God can take what Satan meant for shame and use it for His glory. Just when we think we've messed up so badly that our lives are nothing but heaps of ashes, God pours His living water over us and mixes the ashes into clay. He then takes this clay and molds it into a vessel of beauty. After He fills us with His overflowing love, He can use us to pour His love into the hurting lives of others.

Rejection steals the best of who I am by reinforcing the worst of what's been said to me.

Extension of ourselves or moving out against the inertia of laziness we call work. Moving out in the face of fear we call courage.

Being about spiritual growth, this book is inevitably about the other side of the same coin: the impediments to spiritual growth. Ultimately there is only the one impediment, and that is laziness. If we overcome laziness, all the other impediments will be overcome. If we do not overcome laziness, none of the others will be hurdled.

In any case, when we avoid the legitimate suffering that results from dealing with problems, we also avoid the growth that problems demand from us.

LIFE IS DIFFICULT. This is a great truth, one of the greatest truths.1 It is a great truth because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult – once we truly understand and accept it – then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. Most

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit. The

Când nu mai avem puterea s? ne lupt?m cu lumea asta s?lbatic?, ne întoarcem în noi È™i începem s? ne facem r?u nou? înÈ™ine...

O medo? O medo é um preconceito dos nervos. E um preconceito desfaz-se; basta a simples reflexão.

Once you understand a wound it loses its power to destroy you.

On the other side of pain, there is still love.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

It really helped ever so much because it made me mad, and when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared.

And I was, as clearly as I can express something that is really unexpressible, out on the other side of fear.

I wish human beings couldn't have feelings. I am having feelings. They hurt.

believe God can come into the terrible things and redeem them.

Being strong, bracing yourself against hurt, can get in the way of actual healing; the real work.

Giants are not what we think they are. The same qualities that appear to give them strength are often the sources of great weakness.

Much of what we consider valuable in our world arises out of (these) one-sided conflicts. Because the act of facing overwhelming odds, produces greatness and beauty.

I am like a decapitated pine. Pine trees do not regenerate their tops. They stay twisted, crippled.They grow in thickness, perhaps, and that is what I am doing.

When we see the giant, why do we automatically assume the battle is his for the winning?