Quotes about Resilience

Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you're waiting.

The flower that blooms in adversity is the rarest and most beautiful of all.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me. . . . You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

I am the man, I suffer'd, I was there.

Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have — life itself.

I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself

Prayer is a refusal to settle for what is.

4. There is a text that looms in resilient power. There is a waiting congregation, perhaps not tired out, but too sure of self, pretending buoyancy where there might have been transformation. There is the voice that takes the old script and renders it to evoke a new world we had not yet witnessed (cf. Isa. 43:19). The fourth and final partner is this better world given as fresh revelation.

Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Many things in life aren't fair, but we must learn to accept them as God's will and move on.

She's her mother's daughter - full of courage, determination, and strength she doesn't even know she has.