Quotes about Resilience

I think a very key thing for women is to refuse to let anyone tell you you're banned, you're out of fashion, you don't look the right way. Put your energy into a career that will be there for you regardless of the naysayers.

When your circumstances fail but your character succeeds, you become a model of hope for others.

We cannot control our circumstances, but we can control our character.

What will you reach for to give you hope, courage, and a reason to continue?

Psalm 27 tells that even in the middle of difficulties that we do not understand nor seem able to escape, we have reason to take heart and have hope.

you never just suffer the thing that you're suffering, but you always also suffer the way that you're suffering that thing.

Sturdy contentment that can weather the storms of difficulty and want is always rooted in worship.

When you are suffering, you have to force yourself to pay attention to your private conversation, that is, the words you say to yourself that no one else hears.

God's grace often does its best and brightest work when things are the darkest and most difficult.

Suffering causes us to scan our lives and face the fact that we control very little. So we mourn not only our suffering but also what it has forced us to admit about ourselves. Our loss of the illusion of control also adds to the fear that accompanies suffering.

The world we live in is a house of pain, and we cannot live in it without it touching us. You will never be smart enough to escape its grasp. From the violence of childbirth to cut fingers and scraped knees, from sibling mockery and peer rejection to familial brokenness, suffering is part of every phase of human existence. We enter life through suffering's door and we exit life through suffering's door.

Suffering doesn't make us weak; it simply exposes the weaknesses that have been there all along. It exposes the delusion of our sovereignty and independent capability.