Quotes About Overcoming

Failure is a form of quicksand. Take immediate action or you'll be sucked under.

La cura para la ansiedad requiere pensamientos saludables. Tu desafío no es tu desafío. Tu desafío es la forma en que piensas sobre tu desafío. Tu problema no es tu problema, sino tu forma de verlo.

You'll Get Through This

Cuando oiga voces a mi alrededor que repitan que no estoy a la altura o no soy lo suficiente bueno, ayúdame a escuchar tu verdad en mi corazón y dame fuerzas.

The path to the palace wasn't quick; it wasn't painless, but wouldn't you say that God took this mess and made it into something good? And wouldn't you think he can do the same with yours? Tally up the pain of your past. Betrayals plus anger plus tragedies. Poorly parented? Wrongly accused? Inappropriately touched? Oh, how onerous life can be.

And now without your boat you think you will sink. You're correct. You will, for a while. Waves will sweep over you. Fear will suck you under like a Pacific riptide. But take heart, says Paul. Take heart, says Christ: "In this world you will have trouble, but be brave! I have defeated the world" (John 16:33 NCV).

If we sense we are victims of unseen, turbulent, random forces, we are troubled.

2. David majors in God. He sees the giant, mind you; he just sees God more so.

Here is what I think: our biggest fears are sprained ankles to God. Here is what else I think: a lot of people live with unnecessary anxiety over temporary limps.

In God's hands intended evil becomes eventual good. That's the message of Genesis 50:20 and the heart of Joseph's story.

No problem is unsolvable. No life is irredeemable. No one's fate is sealed. No one is unloved or unlovable.

Life pulls us down.

It may seem that the calamity sucked your life out to sea, but it hasn't. You still have your destiny.

La solución de Dios para cualquier reto es simplemente esta: un espíritu agradecido. No hay neblina que sea tan densa que el resplandor del agradecimiento no pueda disipar.

So did yours. Joseph's pit came in the form of a cistern. Maybe yours came in the form of a diagnosis, a foster home, or a traumatic injury. Joseph was thrown in a hole and despised. And you? Thrown in an unemployment line and forgotten. Thrown into a divorce and abandoned, into a bed and abused. The pit. A kind of death, waterless and austere. Some people never recover. Life is reduced to one quest: get out and never be hurt again. Not simply done. Pits have no easy exits.

Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise.

I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.

Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse.

Did you want to see me broken? Bowed head and lowered eyes? Shoulders falling down like teardrops. Weakened by my soulful cries. You may shoot me with your words, You may cut me with your eyes, You may kill me with your hatefulness, But still, like air, I'll rise.

While one may encounter many defeats, one must not be defeated.

Don't let the man bring you down.

Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise.

I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.

Still I'll rise.