Quotes About Overcoming

Hij lachte over de mislukkingen die ik hem vertelde. Maar hij lachte mij niet uit. Nee, eerder lachte hij, zoals iemand lacht over fouten die hij zelf lang geleden, begaan heeft, met nog wel wat verdriet omdat hij gefaald heeft, maar ook voldoening omdat hij ze overwon, of van geen belang meer acht.

Soul's Castle fell at one blast of temptation, But many a worm had pierced the foundation.

What ailment of yours have you cured today? What failing have you resisted? Where can you show improvement?"1

Even though I'd like to avoid the circumstance or situation, I will not. Avoidance behavior will only increase my anxiety. I will go ahead, experience the unpleasant feelings, and I'll get through it.

No voice divine the storm allayed, No light propitious shone;When, snatched from all effectual aid, We perished, each alone:But I beneath a rougher sea,And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.

The darkest day if you live till tomorrow will have past away.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage.

Too much happens…. Man performs, engenders, so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything…. That's what's so terrible.

If all the devil's wits and wiles will not serve him to overcome one single soldier in Christ's camp, much less shall he ever ruin the whole army. These

The saints are oft feeding their hopes on the carcass of their slain fears.

Satan with all his wits and wiles, shall never vanquish a soul armed with true grace; nay, he that hath this armour of God on shall vanquish him. Look

First.—The Christian is to proclaim and prosecute an irreconcilable war against his bosom sins; those sins which have lain nearest his heart, must now be trampled under his feet.

The evil day is not such a scareful thing to thee that art a Christian, as that thou shouldst start for it. Bring up thy heart close to it. Show thy soul what Christ hath done to take the sting out of it, what the sweet promises are that are given on purpose to overcome the fear of it, and what thy hopes are thou shalt get by it. These will satisfy and compose thy spirit; whereas the shunning the thoughts of it will but increase thy fear, and bring thee more into bondage to it.

Fear is a numbing thing when there is no recourse to hope or escape...

Beyond the very extremity of fatigue distress, amounts of ease and power that we never dreamed ourselves to own, sources of strength habitually not taxed at all, because habitually we never push through the obstruction

You are the light. The darkness will always try to snuff you out.

body heals itself, but there is a scar.

In a way, they weren't that different from the kids at Lincoln School, who'd been thrown together with almost nothing. But Lincoln School had been overseen by the likes of DiMarco and the Black Witch and her lizard-on-two-legs husband, and fear had been what we'd all shared the most. With the crusade, the spirit of Sister Eve ran through everything, and that made all the difference.

I expect to lose. I always do. And life seems eager to exceed my expectations.

In a sacred ground like marriage, you find yourself out of it at certain times for reasons unknown that can be destructive. There could be a demon that kind of comes out and overtakes you.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him.

A successful man is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks others have thrown at him.

A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him or her.