There are times in our lives when we feel lost, unsure of ourselves and lose sight of our abilities as moms or as a person. Have you been in the same spot for so long that it begins to feel like your second skin? Have you been on mommy duty and feel underappreciated? Do you feel drained with being everything to everybody? Life throws a lot of these circumstances our way and if we allow our minds to ponder on them long enough, we will lose sight of what matters most and give up on ourselves.
What you need to get you through this dark tunnel is courage, if you can muster enough strength to keep going even when it looks like you are not making any headway, you will leave the dark times behind soon enough.
As long as you are alive, there will always be phases of challenges to get through. When I find myself in circumstances where no matter how hard I try I'm still stuck, I like to read words of encouragement from the Bible and women like me who have also been through difficult times and yet persevered.
This is the reason why I put together some quotes from women and the Bible to remind you that there are other people on this journey even when you feel so alone. I hope these quotes lift your spirits and remind you that you are enough. Happy reading!
Quotes on courage and strength
Sometimes when you’re in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted
Christine Caine
When things fall apart, the broken pieces allow all sorts of things to enter, and one of them is the presence of God
Shauna Niequist
What we choose to use as our anchor determines how well we will weather the seasons of life
Lauren Chandler
Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness
Helen Keller
God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony
Christine Caine
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God
Corrie Ten Boom
God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try
Mother Teresa
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Never imagine that what you do for others or what you do in private doesn’t matter. It counts more than we know. God watches how we steward what is not our own before He entrusts us with more
Lisa Bevere
No occupation in this world is more trying to soul and body than the care of young children. What patience and wisdom, skill and unlimited love it calls for. God gave the work to mothers and furnished them for it, and they cannot shirk it and be guiltless Isabella Alden
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there
Mother Teresa
So never lose an opportunity of urging a practical beginning, however small, for it is wonderful how often in such matters the mustard-seed germinates and roots itself Florence Nightingale
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow
Helen Keller
Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth
Lysa Terkeurst
We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face
Eleanor Roosevelt
Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them
Elisabeth Elliot
Inspirational quotes from the Bible
Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel; I will help thee, saith the LORD, and thy redeemer, the Holy One of Israel
Isaiah 41:14
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalms 27:1
I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
Philippians 4:13
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee
Deuteronomy 31:6
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the LORD his God.
1 Samuel 30:6
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
Psalms 27:14
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD.
Psalms 31:24
The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace.
Psalms 29:11
Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
Ephesians 6:13
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Psalms 73:26
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
Isaiah 12:2
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.
1 Peter 5:10
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:39
Be ye strong therefore, and let not your hands be weak: for your work shall be rewarded.
2 Chronicles 15:7
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
Ephesians 6:10
*All Bible quotations are from the King James Version (KJV)
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