Old Soul Quotes: Resilience

In my study of Eve for Saturday’s post, I realized how her life must have been characterized by resilience.

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For a just man falleth seven times, and riseth up again. – Proverbs 24:16a

But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. – Isaiah 40:31

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Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I press toward the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. – Philippians 3:13,14

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The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway

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Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. – Helen Keller

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There are two ways of exerting one’s strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. – Booker T. Washington 

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. – Winston Churchill

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I hope these words will encourage you to be resilient this week!

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