Quotes about Resilience

Receiving Yourself in the Fires of Sorrow

If your life is producing only a whine, instead of the wine, then ruthlessly kick it out. It is definitely a crime for a Christian to be weak in God's strength.

We say that there ought to be no sorrow, but thereis sorrow, and we have to accept and receive ourselves in its fires. If we try to evade sorrow, refusing to deal with it, we are foolish. Sorrow is one of the biggest facts in life, and there is no use in saying it should not be. Sin, sorrow, and suffering are, and it is not for us to say that God has made a mistake in allowing them.

Sorrow removes a great deal of a person's shallowness, but it does not always make that person better. Suffering either gives me to myself or it destroys me. You cannot find or receive yourself through success, because you lose your head over pride. And you cannot receive yourself through the monotony of your daily life, because you give in to complaining. The only way to find yourself is in the fires of sorrow.

Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two." Matthew 5:41     Our Lord's teaching can be summed up in this: the relationship that He demands for us is an impossible one unless He has done a supernatural work in us. Jesus Christ demands that His disciple does not allow even the slightest trace of resentment in his heart when faced with tyranny and injustice.

Out of the wreck I rise" every time.

We are super-victors with a joy that comes from experiencing the very things which look as if they are going to overwhelm us.

If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time of great personal growth ahead.

No power on earth or in hell can conquer the Spirit of God in a human spirit, it is an inner unconquerableness.

If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?

Crises always reveal a person's true character.

Shall tribulation . . . ?" Tribulation is never a noble thing; but let tribulation be what it may—exhausting, galling, fatiguing, it is not able to separate us from the love of God. Never let cares or tribulations separate you from the fact that God loves you.