Josh McDowell Quotes

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

I will continue to keep fighting sucking the marrow out of life as life sucks the marrow out of me.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

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

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

There's so many things that life is, and no matter how many breakthroughs, trials will exist and we're going to get through it. Just be strong.

It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.

The most audacious thing I could possibly state in this day and age is that life is worth living. It's worth being bashed against. It's worth getting scarred by. It's worth pouring yourself over every one of its coals.

The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

Above all, don't fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.

Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

I'm always looking for a story of survival.

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival.

Man will not merely endure; he will prevail...

The pain of overcoming our difficulties must be borne by all.

A historic defeat cannot bow our heads forever.

Through all the hardships and all the operations and all the hospitals, all that stuff each part of my life, there's been some goodness, some greatness that comes in here and helps me to be strong, to continue what I'm doing.

You can be going through hardships sometimes, and you're struggling, and then you're wondering if you're ever gonna make it.

Everyone has a cross to bear. Sometimes I have to take the splinters out of my shoulders.

I didn't mind a bit of hardship.

I would say, anyone who knows me says they don't envy my life. I've just been through very hard times, yes.

No matter what hard thing you may go through or what kind of pain you may go through there is still hope.

Everyone has faced something; some struggles are more heroic than others.

We've all lived through something horrific, but the strength and beauty and knowledge that we're going to win eventually is what keeps me going.