Quotes about Resilience

Continue to persevere spiritually.

Discouragement is disillusioned self-love, and

be of good cheer, I have overcome the world" (16:33). Unyielding spiritual fortitude is what we need.

The typical view of the Christian life is that it means being delivered from all adversity. But it actually means being delivered in adversity, which is something very different.

Beware of lazily giving up. Instead, put up a glorious fight and you will find yourself empowered with His strength.

There will be experiences like this in each of our lives. We will have times of despair caused by real events in our lives, and we will be unable to lift ourselves out of them.

Temptation is not something we can escape; in fact, it is essential to the well-rounded life of a person. Beware of thinking that you are tempted as no one else—what you go through is the common inheritance of the human race, not something that no one has ever before endured. God does not save us from temptations—He sustains us in the midst of them

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

Unless there is within us that which is above us, we shall soon yield to that which is about us.

Making peace with my past was the first step; being grateful for it was the second. Now, at last, I can appreciate the woman those experiences created: me.

One of the best pieces of advice I've ever received was from my grandmother, who said, "A woman always has to keep something of her own, even if it's a jar of quarters." The other was from my agent, another wise woman, who told me twenty years ago: "You don't have to tell everything you know.