Quotes about Resilience

Or again we might say that we are at a Daniel-like moment, for Daniel and his three friends faced a challenge unlike that of most of the Jews before them. The world as the Jews had known it for hundreds of years from Joshua onward had gone. Not since the captivity in Egypt had Jews been strangers in a strange land as they found themselves when defeated and deported as exiles to Babylon in the sixth century B.C.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

The heart was made to be broken.

Hearts are made to be broken.

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

There are certain things we must not pray about - moods, for instance. Moods never go by praying, moods go by kicking.

If we were never depressed we should not be alive; it is the nature of a crystal never to be depressed.

Let circumstances take you where they will, but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find yourself.

Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.

Build your hope on Him. No matter how many things seem to be pressing in on you, be determined to push them aside and look to Him. "Look to Me. . .

said—"Let not your heart be troubled." God will not keep your heart from being troubled. It is a command—"Let not.

Though He slay me, yet will I trust Him"—this is the most sublime utterance of faith in the whole of the Bible.