Quotes about Resilience

All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.

The soul lets out some sighs — not great ones — because it can do no more; they are felt within.

Truth suffers, but never dies.

If a little flower could speak, it seems to me that it would tell us quite simply all that God has done for it, without hiding any of its gifts. It would not, under the pretext of humility, say that it was not pretty, or that it had not a sweet scent, that the sun had withered its petals,or the storm bruised its stem, if it knew that such were not the case.

My God, how good Thou art! How well dost Thou suit the trial to our strength!

My whole strength lies in prayer and sacrifice. They can move hearts far better than words. -St. Therese of Lisieux

The times are never so bad that a good man cannot live in them

A person is said to be patient…because he acts in a praiseworthy manner by enduring things which hurt him here and now and is not unduly saddened by them.

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.—Lamentations

the Sioux did not rejoice. Too many of their own had been lost that day. When

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

The truth is, everything that's happened was supposed to happen. That doesn't mean I don't look back and think, God, I wish I hadn't had to go through some of those things.