With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you. . . restore and "fix" you. . . and follow you. . . until you are well on your way.
If you are going through a time of discouragement, there is a time or great personal growth ahead.
Who really benefits from discouragement? More often than not, encouragement is exactly what is needed.
I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.
Nothing means so much to our daily prayer life as to pray in the name of Jesus. If we fail to do this, our prayer life will either die from discouragement and despair or become simply a duty which we feel we must perform.
One of the things I tell young people - and older people too - is that when things don't happen that you want, don't drown in discouragement. We say, "Oh, this didn't happen, so nothing good will happen. " Don't barricade yourself.
The discouragement masquerades as the impossibility.
Fatigue, discomfort, discouragement are merely symptoms of effort.
Faith must always pass the test of discouragement.
We can cross the rivers of doubt and discouragement on the bridge of faith even before we get to them
Not only is our love for our children sometimes tinged with annoyance, discouragement, and disappointment, the same is true for the love our children feel for us.
Discouragement is not from God.
You can be whatever you want to be. Don't let discouragement take you down.
For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another child because this word stood out so strikingly from the consistent discouragement around him.
Discouragement is not the absence of adequacy but the absence of courage.
You must want to enough. Enough to take all the rejections, enough to pay the price of disappointment and discouragement while you are learning.
Discouragement is an attitude.
Discouragement itself is a form of pride.
Discouragement is a negative emotion with more than one trick up its dark sleeve. It tricks you into mentally or emotionally dwelling in the very place you want to leave. Drop all such sorrow permanently by daring to see through this deception of the unconscious mind. You have a destination far beyond where you find yourself standing today
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.