Quotes about Resilience

Attach yourself to what is spiritually superior, regardless of what other people think or do. Hold to your true aspirations no matter what is going on around you.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

How can you change the world? The answer: find seven women, turn them loose, and watch Satan tremble in their presence."

What we desperately do want to avoid is not merely suffering but suffering without meaning.

Simply suffering—that is what will be needed then—not parries, blows or thrusts such as may still be possible or admissible in the preliminary fight; the real struggle that perhaps lies ahead must simply be to suffer faithfully... For sometime the church struggle hasn't even been about what it appears to be about; the lines have been drawn somewhere else entirely.

As long as we let the word be our only armor we can look confidently into the future.

All right," he wrote, "if [the devil] devours me he shall devour a laxative (God willing) which will make his bowels and anus too tight for him. Do you want to bet? One has to suffer if he wants to possess Christ."

The only fight which is lost is that which we give up.

This was one of the casualties of war, that trust itself seemed to die a thousand deaths.

Describing Bonhoeffer's demeanor on returning to danger in Germany rather than safety in America, with "with a strong and joyful firmness such as only arises out of realized freedom.

Sometimes all we can do is trust that hardship is a path to peace.

Fireproof doesn't mean that a fire will never come, but that when it comes you'll be able to withstand it.