Quotes about Resilience

Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Change what cannot be accepted and accept what cannot be changed.

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

The true knowing, living Christian complains more frequently and more bitterly of the wants and woes within him, than without him(55).

If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).

As Socrates said when his wife first railed at him, and next threw a vessel of foul water upon him, "I thought when I heard the thunder, there would come rain

I know necessity may cause the Church to tolerate the weak; but woe to us if we tolerate and indulge our own weakness.

When we fail we are merely joining the great parade of humanity that has walked ahead of us and will follow after us.

Jesus praised faith and trust — even more than love. It takes a foundational trust to fall, or to fail, and not to fall apart.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

There must be, and, if we are honest, there always will be at least one situation in our lives that we cannot fix, control, explain, change, or even understand. For Jesus and for his followers, the crucifixion became the dramatic symbol of that necessary and absurd stumbling stone.

It is not that suffering or failure might happen, or that it will only happen to you if you are bad (which is what religious people often think), or that it will happen to the unfortunate, or to a few in other places, or that you can somehow by cleverness or righteousness avoid it. No, it will happen, and to you! Losing, failing, falling, sin, and the suffering that comes from those experiences—all of this is a necessary and even good part of the human journey.