Quotes about Resilience

Hear my prayer, O Lady: upon a firm rock establish my mind. Be thou to me a tower of strength: protect me from the face of the cruel destroyer. Be thou to him terrible as an army in battle array: and may he fall living into the depths of hell. For thou art shining and terrible: a cloud full of dew, and the rising dawn. Thou art beautiful and bright as the full moon: thy sacred aspect is as when the sun shines in its strength.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

We make a ladder of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.

Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times.

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.