Quotes about Resilience

The Church is a perpetually defeated thing that always outlives her conquerers.

Do not, I beseech you, be troubled about the increase of forces already in dissolution. You have mistaken the hour of the night; it is already morning.

And I saw a light-filled man emerge from the aforesaid dawn and pour his brightness over the aforementioned darkness; it repulsed him; he turned blood-red and pallid, but struck back against the darkness with such force that the man who was lying in the darkness became visible and resplendent.

I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to be over.

Things are going to get a lot worse before they get worse.

No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

You see, counselors, teachers, and various organizations may all agree with you that you are handicapped, but God never will. He loves giving you the opportunity to face what you fear, because when you face what you fear you become fearless.

Attempting to defeat the enemy by wrestling with people could be likened to trying to destroy a tree by picking all its fruit.

Lovely One, if you dare to dream, you must be brave enough to fight.

I believe that the attacks on your life have much more to do with who you might be in the future than who you have been in the past.

If you are not praying the type of prayers that scare you, your prayers are certainly not frightening our enemy.

Outward pressure is always an opportunity to be inwardly transformed.