Quotes about Resilience

When stormy winds against us break stablish and reinforce our will; O hear us for Thine own Name's sake, hold us in strength, and hold us still. Still as the faithful mountains stand, through the long, silent years of stress; so would we wait at Thy right hand in quietness and steadfastness.

I say that I found peace. I do not say that I was not lonely. I was--terribly. I do not say that I did not grieve. I did--most sorely. But peace of that sort the world cannot give comes, not by the removal of suffering, but in another way--through acceptance.

Many deaths must go into us reaching that measure, many letting go's.

Pray when you feel like praying. Pray when you don't feel like praying. Pray until you feel like praying.

I want to be free of self-pity. It is a tool of Satan to rot away a life.

We cannot look at the sun all the time, we cannot face death all the time.

The reality is people have always died in large numbers in natural disasters such as avalanches, earthquakes, and tornadoes.

As you grow stronger, it may return from time to time, but that is how grief works.

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.

Just as mental toughness and physical energy are the primary traits of an army, they also mark God's beautiful woman.

Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.