Quotes related to 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
Never feel shame for trying and failing, for he who never failed is he who never tried.
— Og Mandino
Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.
— Oscar Wilde
If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.
— Oswald Chambers
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.
— Oswald Chambers
be. Paul said this is the reason that "in all these things we are more than conquerors." We are super-victors with a joy that comes from experiencing the very things which look as if they are going to overwhelm us.
— Oswald Chambers
Out of the wreck I rise" every time.
— Oswald Chambers
If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?
— Oswald Chambers
If we were never depressed, we would not be alive—only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation.
— Oswald Chambers
The temptation is to face difficulties from a commonsense standpoint. The saint is hilarious when he is crushed with difficulties because the thing is so ludicrously impossible to anyone but God.
— Oswald Chambers
The typical view of the Christian life is that it means being delivered from all adversity. But it actually means being delivered in adversity, which is something very different.
— Oswald Chambers
There will be experiences like this in each of our lives. We will have times of despair caused by real events in our lives, and we will be unable to lift ourselves out of them.
— Oswald Chambers
The surprise of situational distress has produced deeply emotional questions that have led them to deeply theological conclusions, but it's been nothing like the sort of theological debate found in a classroom.
— Paul David Tripp