#encourage

I wrote in my journal about how good I felt when I was not living under Ed’s control. Then, when I really felt like giving up, I read these pages and realized that I was striving for in recovery was a real possibility. I thought about these experiences and used them as encouragement to keep moving forward. Even one minute of freedom was proof that I was getting better. At first, these times were few and far between. Now, these moments are connected; they are my life ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

#encouragement #freedom #motivation #recovery #experience

God is never a God of discouragement. When you have a discouraging spirit or train of thought in your mind, you can be sure it is not from God. He sometimes brings pain to his children-conviction over sin, or repentance over fallenness, or challenges that scare us, or visions of his holiness that overwhelm us. But God never brings discouragement. ↗

— John Ortberg

#holy-spirit

Cry if you must. Scream. Get it all out of your system, and then we'll have fun. It won't last forever, but it will keep you busy for tonight. ↗

— Jamie McGuire

#encouragement #friendship #support #travis #beauty

Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two. ↗

— Deborah Day

#encouragement #friendship #relationships #friendship

It's a good thing to see that people can heal after they've been broken, that they can change and become something different from what they were before. ↗

— Wiley Cash

#inspirational #change

If we are not allowed to deal with small problems, we will be destroyed by slightly larger ones. When we come to understand this, we live our lives not avoiding problems, but welcoming them them as challenges that will strengthen us so that we can be victorious in the future. ↗

— Jim Stovall

#encouragement #inspiration #inspirational

Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. ↗

— Dr. Martin Luther King

#empowerment #encouragement #inspirational #inspirational

Your nature is not the problem. The problem is that you have become alienated from your nature -- from your power source. ↗

— Laurie Helgoe

#inspirational #inspirational

It's not what you can do, it's how God can do through you. ↗

— Hannah Mae Bencio

#god #motivation #motivational

We have come here together so that you might know, through virtue of your own pain, your own hopelessness, your own fear, your own darkness and the lie of powerlessness, the very actual power of your own will, of the will of your soul. ↗

— Jennifer DeLucy

#encouragement #hard-times #life #motivational #power