Quotes About Overcoming

The wounded heart learns self-love by first overcoming low self-esteem. Nathaniel Branden's lengthy wort Six Pillars of Self-Esteem highlights important dimensions of self-esteem, The practice of living consciously, self -acceptance, self-responsibility, self-assertiveness, living purposefully and the practice of personal integrity.

Faith enables us to move past fear.

But a lot of the time that's how it works, life gets so dark until we think all the light's gone out of us. But it's there, it's always there. If we just open the door a crack the light comes pouring in.

Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out.

victory does not come to men who listen to their fears.

This time, if God wills it, we shall replace him. A man bitten by a snake once does not let the snake live a second time.

Bravery is overcoming fear," I said, "and I don't know how you do that. Duty helps a little, experience, of course, and not letting down your comrades helps a lot, but really bravery is a kind of madness.

He's like a man putting wattle hurdles in the face of a flood. -Brace a hurdle well and it'll turn a stream.

victory does not come to men ho listen to their fears.

There comes a time in a (wo)man's life when to get where (s)he has to -- if there are no doors or windows -- he walks through a wall.

When an airplane's engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.

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If you live life ruled by your fears, you're not really living.

God's specialty is raising dead things to life and making impossible things possible. You don't have the need that exceeds His power.

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives" (Genesis 50:20).

We can be saved, the Holy Spirit can dwell in us, and yet we can continually live in defeat because the enemy can outwit us if we do not depend on the Holy Spirit and the Word of God.

Stick with me here, because this is important: Virtually nothing we come up against in our individual Christian lives is more formidable than a stronghold. The very nature of the term tells us that whatever it is, it has a "strong hold" on us. Strongholds can't be swept away with a spiritual broom. We can't fuss at them and make them flee. We can't ignore them until they disappear. Strongholds are broken one way only: they have to be demolished.

What reason did God give Joshua for turning from fear and discouragement in the face of huge opposition? "The LORD your God will be with you wherever you go" (Josh. 1:9). When Jesus told His disciples not to be afraid in the storm, the reason wasn't the removal of their frightful circumstances but the presence of their Savior. "Take courage! It is I. Don't be afraid" (Matt. 14:27).

I may walk with a spiritual limp, but thanks be to God, who holds me up and urges me to lean on Him, at least I can walk. So can you. Walk away from that pit before it's the death of you.

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nobody gets the right to keep you in a pit...

Prayerlessness is the most prohibitive obstacle in the road to a believers victory, no matter what our specific pursuit may be.

I sank to the foundations of the mountains; the earth with its prison bars closed behind me forever! But You raised my life from the Pit. Jonah 2:6

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.