Quotes about Resilience
We spend our years with sighing; it is a valleyof tears; but death is the funeral of all our sorrows.
— Thomas Watson
I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.
— Samuel Johnson
People on sinking ships do not complain of distractions during their prayer.
— Philip Yancey
Maybe God isn't trying to tell us anything specific each time we hurt. Pain and suffering are part and parcel of our planet, and Christians are not exempt.
— Philip Yancey
If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!
— Philip Yancey
But the Lord say he won't put more on us than we can stand. If we can't take it, he'll be right there beside us giving stren'th we didn't know we had.
— Philip Yancey
A wise sufferer will look not inward, but outward. There is no more effective healer than a wounded healer, and in the process the wounded healer's own scars may fade away.
— Philip Yancey
We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.
— Philip Yancey
The presence of another caring person doubles the amount of pain a person can endure
— Philip Yancey
True health is the strength to live, the strength to suffer, and the strength to die.
— Philip Yancey
The redemptive way goes through pain, not around it.
— Philip Yancey
Everywhere a greater joy is preceded by a greater suffering
— Philip Yancey