Quotes about Resilience

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Suffering together builds togetherness, and if togetherness is more important for us and for our joy than freedom from suffering is, then God is good to allow this suffering.

God's Spirit is most powerfully at work in us during emotional troughs, the "dry" times, not the "high" times. All the saints teach that. When the aid of feelings is removed, we can move forward only by heroic effort of our will. This

The family that fights together stays together.

The calamities we experience here are only temporary phenomena. Each disaster reminds us that a disaster-free eternity

every troubled time and every troubled person.

The same grace that transports us to heaven also gives us composure when our flights are delayed or the traffic is jammed up.

Should it be ours to drain the cup of grieving, even to the dregs of pain, at thy command, we will not falter, thankfully receiving all that is given by thy loving hand. While all the powers of Good aid and attend us, boldly we'll face the future, be what it may. At even, and at morn, God will befriend us, and oh, most surely on each new year's day!

Sometimes it is only through pain that we become who God wants us to be.

Unless there is within us that which is above us, we will soon yield to that which is around us.

Out of the suffering of God's people have come some of the greatest triumphs. When circumstances look darkest, God has the opportunity to shine the brightest.

Stop allowing things from the past to control you in the present or hinder you in the future. Paul shook things off. He didn't let them cling to him like anchors pulling him down.