Quotes about Resilience

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

Persevering is a fight. That's what a fight is. You face something, you persevere through it, you meet it head on.

In one manner or the other, it still remains true that, even in the view of a mere biologist, the human epic resembles nothing so much as a way of the Cross.

Pray for me, that I may not flee for fear of the wolves.

Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song.

At the end of the day, the enemy is going to be sorry he ever messed with you. You're about to become his worst nightmare a million times over. He thought he could wear you down, sure that after a while you'd give up without much of a fight. Well, just wait till he encounters the fight of God's Spirit in you. Because . . . This. Means. War.

But I say his reign of terror stops here. Stops now. He might keep coming, but he won't have victory anymore. Because it all starts failing when we start praying.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

When sudden change catapults you into something new, remember this: God has a better idea for how you should spend this time of your life. You may stubbornly say, "I am going to stay right here where this brook was, no matter what." But if the brook has dried up, like it or not, you have to move on. It is

home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die." 1 Kings 17:8—12

When we can achieve calm and repose while those around us are losing their heads and blaming things on us, we are beginning to grow.

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for extraordinary destiny. —C. S. LEWIS