Quotes about Resilience

One of life's greatest paradoxes is that it's in the crucible of pain and suffering that we become tender.

When we get waylaid from our walk with God by busyness, depression, family problems, or worse, God does not abandon us.

Against insurmountable obstacles and without a clue as to the outcome, the trusting heart says, 'Abba, I surrender my will and my life to you without any reservation and with boundless confidence, for you are my loving Father.

If we are going to keep on growing, we must keep on risking failure throughout our lives. When

Winston Churchill said it well: "Success is never final; failure is never fatal. It is courage that counts.

Several times in my ministry people have expressed the fear that self-acceptance will abort the ongoing conversion process and lead to a life of spiritual laziness and moral laxity. Nothing could be more untrue. The acceptance of self does not mean to be resigned to the status quo. On the contrary, the more fully we accept ourselves, the more successfully we begin to grow. Love is a far better stimulus than threat or pressure.

Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. Philip

The only cure for suffering is to face it head on, grasp it round the neck and use it.

The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

Much of my callousness and invulnerability has come from my refusal to mourn the loss of a soft word and a tender embrace.) Blessed are those who weep and mourn.

In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.