Quotes About Overcoming

Lord, when things happen that are troublesome and disturbing to me, help me to see the bright side of all of it. Help me to look above my circumstances to Your goodness, mercy, and love. Help me to focus on the power of Your mighty hand and the way You can touch, change, and transform my problems. Turn whatever seems frightening or negative to me into something positive and great. Make these situations work for good in my life and turn them into a blessing as only You can do.

no temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it" (1 Corinthians 10:13).

If you're being tormented by guilt or feelings of failure in this area, confess your thoughts to God, pray about it, put it in God's hands, and then stand up and proclaim the truth!

Mounting Fears‡

What I've noticed though is that any attempt to trim out the dark matter takes away some of the good that was also buried in the muck.

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When I tell you all shall be well, I don't mean that life won't bring you tragedy. Life will be life. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. All shall be well, no matter what.

All things pass in the end, even the worst melancholy. I opened my dresser and pulled out the lava box that held my button. My eyes glazed at the sight of it, and this time I felt my spirit rise up to meet my will. I would not give up. I would err on the side of audacity. That was what I'd always done.

The day life turned into nothing this world could fix

She was trapped same as me, but she was trapped by her mind, by the minds of the people round her, not by the law. At the African church, Mr Vesey used to say, 'Be careful, you can get enslaved twice, once in your body and once in your mind.' I tried to tell her that. I said, 'My body might be a slave, but not my mind. For you, it's the other way round.

When I tell you all shall be well, I don't mean that life won't bring you tragedy. Life will be life. I only mean you will be well in spite of it. All shall be well, no matter what.

I fall and there ain't no wings sprouting off my shoulders.

When darkness fell, she fell with it.

To avoid fear emboldens it.

That's what I told myself five hundred times: impossibility. I can tell you this much: the world is a great big log on the fires of love.

Life had taken a mallet to me.

I didn't know how the rubble inside me could ever be put back together.

I didn't know how the rubble inside me could ever be put back together.

To avoid a fear emboldens it.

large wave unexpectedly knocked me off and shoved me under. Before I could surface, another wave pushed me down, then another. But this is not a game. This is my life. The darkness tunneling back and back. I could lose myself to depression.

I have scars. No one alive today doesn't. But Alex's scars have to be much deeper than mine.

The worst experience can bring out a person's deepest strength.

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It is okay to climb as long as you are not afraid, because being afraid is what made you fall