Quotes about Resilience

We can't always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on God. We can do that.

Even when people turned on Jesus, He didn't let a goodbye turn Him into someone He was never meant to be

Though it felt so permanent at the time, in the scope of my life, I can now see it was truly just a short-term setback from which the Lord delivered me.

The breaking of us has actually been the making of us . . . the God-strengthened us He could use.

Trauma isn't just something that happens to you. It happens in you

Today's rejections, big or subtle, are like stealth bombs that zing straight to my core, locating hurts from my past and making them agonizingly present all over again.

We must be aware that desperation breeds degradation. In other words, when what is lacking in life goes from being an annoyance to an anxiety we run the risk of compromising in ways we never thought we would.

Without challenges and changes people tend to grow increasingly distant from God and resistant to His ways.

Heartbreaking seasons can certainly grow me but were never meant to define me.

I can't control the things that happen to me each day, but I can control how I think about them.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

This generosity of spirit-this caring about others and about the proposition that we are all created equal-is the single most effective antidote to the self-centered moral numbness that allows Fascism to thrive. It is a capacity that can be found in most people, but it is not always nurtured and is sometimes, for a period, brutally crushed.