Quotes about Encouragement

For someone's character to grow, it has to be free from internal attack. Falling down never stopped children from developing. But getting yelled at, criticized, and put down can stop them for life.

Hang on to this with your life: "In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world."

Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.

Everybody likes a compliment.

No matter how dark and gloomy it looks in your life right now, if you'll release the weight of those burdens, you will see the sun break forth.

Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

I don't want to be someone's reason to hate their life. I want to be someone's reason to seek something more in their life.

You can't live the Christian life without a band of Christian friends, without a family of believers in which you find a place.

And although to the strong he has pointed out the prize of their high calling, [ Philippians 3: 14 ] yet he suffers none to faint by the way; [ Matthew 15: 32 ] while he applauds those who lead the van, he does not despise those who bring up the rear.

The knowledge of His sovereignty is meant to be an encouragement to pray, not an excuse to lapse into a sort of pious fatalism.

First, I desire to glorify God by acknowledging His sovereignty and His goodness. Second, I desire to encourage God's people by demonstrating from Scripture that God is in control of their lives, that He does indeed love them, and that He works out all the circumstances of their lives for their ultimate good.

These stories are meant to teach us that God is sovereign over people and to encourage us by the knowledge that God exercises His sovereignty for our good.