Quotes about Resilience
You'll Get Through This
— Max Lucado
How would that look on a résumé? Joseph Son of Jacob Graduate with honors from the University of Hard Knocks Director of Global Effort to Save Humanity Succeeded
— Max Lucado
But God will use this mess for good. In the meantime don't be foolish or naive. But don't despair either. With God's help you will get through this.
— Max Lucado
We choose our response--rock or sponge? Resist or receive?
— Max Lucado
Death, failure, betrayal, sickness, disappointment—they cannot take our joy, because they cannot take our Jesus.
— Max Lucado
Illustrate stubborn love. Incarnate fidelity.
— Max Lucado
The path to the palace wasn't quick; it wasn't painless, but wouldn't you say that God took this mess and made it into something good? And wouldn't you think he can do the same with yours? Tally up the pain of your past. Betrayals plus anger plus tragedies. Poorly parented? Wrongly accused? Inappropriately touched? Oh, how onerous life can be.
— Max Lucado
And now without your boat you think you will sink. You're correct. You will, for a while. Waves will sweep over you. Fear will suck you under like a Pacific riptide. But take heart, says Paul. Take heart, says Christ: "In this world you will have trouble, but be brave! I have defeated the world" (John 16:33 NCV).
— Max Lucado
Words are powerful. If you've been on the other end of stinging criticism, you know what I mean. Will one positive remark transform your family? Probably not. But keep it up. No one can resist the power of encouragement.
— Max Lucado
In the end it's not the flashy and flamboyant who survive. It is those with steady hands and sober minds.
— Max Lucado
You cannot control the circumstances, but you can always control what you think of them.
— Max Lucado
On the Anvil
— Max Lucado