Quotes about Resilience
Count it all joy…when you fall into various trials (JAMES 1:2).
— Elizabeth George
Trials are not meant to defeat you. They are meant to be defeated.
— Elizabeth George
Sometimes God's way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.
— Elizabeth George
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Hard times require furious dancing. Each of us is proof.
— Alice Walker
Be nobody's darling; Be an outcast. Take the contradictions Of your life And wrap around You like a shawl, To parry stones To keep you warm.
— Alice Walker
Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.
— Frank Herbert
I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn't mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.
— Billy Graham
Only strength can cooperate. Weakness can only beg.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
Think not that humility is weakness; it shall supply the marrow of strength to thy bones. Stoop and conquer; bow thyself and become invincible.
— Charles Spurgeon
My weakness, that is, my quadriplegia, is my greatest asset because it forces me into the arms of Christ every single morning when I get up.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
— Joseph Addison