Quotes about Resilience
As we grow older and our bodies weaken, we must learn from the Puritan pastor Richard Baxter (who died in 1691) to redouble our efforts to find strength from spiritual joy, not natural supplies.
— John Piper
If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.
— John Piper
No one ever said that they learned their deepest lessons of life, or had their sweetest encounters with God, on the sunny days. People go deep with God when the drought comes. That is the way God designed it. Christ aims to be magnified in life most clearly by the way we experience him in our losses.
— John Piper
A thousand sorrows prepares a man to preach.
— John Piper
Therefore, one of God's purposes in the coronavirus is that his people put to death self-pity and fear, and give themselves to good deeds in the presence of danger. Christians lean toward need, not comfort. Toward love, not safety. That's what our Savior is like. That is what he died for.
— John Piper
God has his ways to loosen your roots.
— John Piper
knowing that the same sovereignty that could stop the coronavirus, yet doesn't, is the very sovereignty that sustains the soul in it.
— John Piper
For Jesus, the demand for joy is a way to live with suffering and to outlast suffering.
— John Piper
Put the ballast of biblical truth in the belly of our little boats, lest the crashing waves of calamity of these changing times cause us to capsize in the sea of trouble
— John Piper
The same sovereignty that could stop the coronavirus, yet doesn't, is the very sovereignty that sustains the soul in it.
— John Piper
The joy of the Lord will arm us against the assaults of our spiritual enemies and put our mouths out of taste for those pleasures with which the tempter baits his hooks."5
— John Piper
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman, before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
— John Quincy Adams