Quotes about Resilience
The marriage covenant should be strong enough to endure pressure from within and from without
- Perry Stone
The wilderness creates unusual pressures and challenges.
- Perry Stone
Grace grows best in winter.
- Peter Enns
When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
- Genesis 21:15
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
- Genesis 31:40
When the man saw that he could not overpower Jacob, he struck the socket of Jacob’s hip and dislocated it as they wrestled.
- Genesis 32:25
Then the man said, “Let me go, for it is daybreak.” But Jacob replied, “I will not let you go unless you bless me.”
- Genesis 32:26
The sun rose above him as he passed by Penuel, and he was limping because of his hip.
- Genesis 32:31
So Potiphar’s wife kept Joseph’s cloak beside her until his master came home.
- Genesis 39:16
After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.
- Genesis 41:6
After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted—withered, thin, and scorched by the east wind.
- Genesis 41:23
Their father Jacob said to them, “You have deprived me of my sons. Joseph is gone and Simeon is no more. Now you want to take Benjamin. Everything is going against me!”
- Genesis 42:36