Quotes about Overcoming

The wisdom of the chess player is displayed more in winning over a capable opponent than a novice. The wisdom of the general is displayed more in defeating a superior army than in subduing an inferior one. Even more so, the wisdom of God is displayed when He brings good to us and glory to Himself out of confusion and calamity rather than out of pleasant times.

You see, it is the effects of your being fired, not the act itself that determines whether you are tempted to become bitter.

Did He create you with an incurable speech impediment?

T]oday some people continue to view themselves as victims because of the historical suffering of their group and because it is easy and comforting to do so. And this renders happiness virtually impossible. First…perceiving yourself as a victim makes you unhappy. Second, it makes you permanently angry, which further guarantees unhappiness. Third, it enables you to avoid confronting whatever it is that is really making you unhappy.

I'm not brave any more darling. I'm all broken. They've broken me.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

It made him feel as a wound does that you think you cannot bear. But you can bear anything, he thought.

We are stronger in our broken places.

Remember that he who conquers himself is greater than the one who conquers a city.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

It is in defeat that we become Christian.

He wants to in the whirl of his own weakness. But the river is coming. By being forced to change, he'll be powerful in change.