Quotes about Resilience

His tears reached deep inside and tore great chunks from what was left of his heart.

As Joyce Meyer candidly puts it, "Complain and Remain.

How thankful I am for Matthew 5:11: "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you.

Hattaway, an insider and chronicler of the UCM, gives a picture of what the church could face in our hostile Western world: "Apparently the [Chinese] government is using a new method to deal with people when they arrest them. Instead of beating them, they are drugging them with a mind-altering chemical that diminishes the person's mental capacity."23 The Shandong Revival in China was perhaps one

We multiply whenever we are mown down by you; the blood of Christians is seed.

He who flees will fight again...

If the Tiber rises too high, or the Nile too low, the remedy is always feeding Christians to the lions.

when something painful or disagreeable happens to me, instead of a melancholy look, I answer by a smile. At first I did not always succeed, but now it has become a habit which I am glad to have acquired.

The life of every missionary abounds in crosses," said Théophane Vénard. And again: "True happiness consists in suffering, and in order to live we must die.

Ever since his first attack

Serving brings great rewards, but sometimes those rewards come gift-wrapped in trying situations. Those who lovingly serve others can end up feeling like crash dummies designed specifically to discover the heat, force, and pain tolerance of some new product.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.