Quotes about Resilience

Books are not men and yet they stay alive.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

Sharp men, like sharp needles, break easy, though they pierce quick.

So could it be that good can come out of suffering? That God uses it to build things into us? Things we might need?

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.