As much as it pleases God to bless you, there will be moments when everything you try goes up in smoke. There will be moments when the one you counted on most walks away and leaves you groping through blinding tears and wailing questions of why. Plans and goals can be circumvented by the most disappointing of times, leaving you learning the art of patience and the acceptance of a denied request.
T. D. Jakes
Website
God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.
Luis Palau
Luis Palau Evangelistic Organization
The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, "O God, forgive me," or "Help me."
Billy Graham
Billy Graham Organization
Trust in yourself and you are doomed to disappointment;....but trust in GOD, and you are never to be confounded in time or eternity.
Dwight L. Moody
Biography
The many contradictions in our lives - such as being home while feeling homeless, being busy while feeling bored, being popular while feeling lonely,being believers while feeling many doubts - can frustrate, irritate, and even discourage us. They make us feel that we are never fully present. Every door that opens for us makes us see how many more doors are closed. But there is another response. These same contradictions can bring us into touch with a deeper longing for the fulfillment of a desire that lives beneath all desires and that only God can satisfy. Contradictions, thus understood, create the friction that can help us move toward God.
Henri J. M. Nouwen
Nouwen Centre
from "Bread for the Journey"
Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ! All the promises of God are yea and amen in Christ Jesus, 2 Cor. 1:20
Frederick Brotherton ( F. B. ) Meyer
Online Works
 |
As Silver Refined: Learning To Embrace Life's Disappointments By Kay Arthur How do you respond when somebody tramples your feelings? Robs your home? Injures a family member? Trials like these prompt us to ask God "Why?" But what if unavoidable disappointments are actually appointments that God uses to make us more Christ-like? Learn how to break the downward spiral of discouragement and embrace troubles with faith. 240 pages, softcover from Waterbrook. |
If when an answer I did not expect comes to a prayer which I believed I truly meant, I shrink back from it; if the burden my Lord asks me to bear be not the burden of my heart's choice, and I fret inwardly and do not welcome His will, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
Amy Carmichael
Biography and Bibliography
When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the centre of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss.
Charles (Chuck) Swindoll
Insight For Living
Man still retains within himself the need to love a perfect object that will never disappoint him and to be himself loved totally and unconditionally. These needs can be met only in a relationship with God Himself. Otherwise, we go on demanding unattainable absolutes from human beings.
Tom Marshall
Faith is often strengthened right at the place of disappointment.
Rodney McBride
How much discouragement can you take for God? What would it take for you to quit your service to the Lord?
Clyde Billingsly
Be not discouraged because of your soul's enemies. Are ye troubled with thoughts, fears, doubts, imaginations, reasonings? Yea, do ye see, yet, much in you unsubdued to the power of life? Oh! Do not fear it; do not look at it, as to be discouraged by it; but look to Him! Look up to the power which is over all their strength; wait for the descendings of the power upon you; abide in faith of the Lord's help, and wait in patience till the Lord arise; and see if His arm do not scatter what yours could not. So, be still before Him, and in stillness, believe in His name; yea, enter not into the hurryings of the enemy, though they fill the soul; for, there is yet somewhat to which they cannot enter, from whence patience, faith, and hope, will spring up in you, even in the midst of all they can do.
Isaac Penington
Online Works
Bitterness is a habit that can seriously hinder our spiritual journey. When life becomes difficult, when it doesn't seem as if God is providing for our needs, when we're not getting what we want when we want it, we have a decision to make. We can hold onto our faith and trust that God has an answer in mind, or we can gripe and moan and complain and let our souls become embittered. Expecting an oasis, but finding a bitter stream? Don't lose sight of the grace of God. - (Beside A Quiet Stream)
Penelope J. Stokes
Biography
We yield to discouragement it is usually because we give too much thought to the past and to the future.
Anonymous
If I look at myself, I am depressed. If I look at those around me, I am often disappointed. If I look at my circumstances, I am discouraged. But if I look at Jesus, I am constantly, consistently, and eternally fulfilled!
Anonymous
Every thing that a man leans upon but God, will be a dart that will certainly pierce his heart through and through. He, who leans only upon Christ, lives the highest, choicest, safest, and sweetest life.
Thomas Brooks
Brief Biography
No matter how disappointed you are feeling or how much you are hurting, know that every heartache and loss has within it the seeds of opportunity. Hidden within each disappointment is a peal of great price, that, when found, will totally dwarf your problem. The greatest success stories are written by people who, against seemingly overwhelming and often insurmountable odds, have accepted their trials and turned them into opportunities for personal growth and stepping stones on their pathway to success. With God's help you can do the same. Trust him and choose friends who will empower you to do so.
Dick Innes
Biography
 |
Treading Water in an Empty Pool: Real Life Stuff for Men on Disappointment By Navigators Life is good--except you can't stand your job, your daughter won't listen to you, your wife isn't the person you thought you married, and your dog isn't house-trained even after five years. Chin-up! With book one of The Real Life Stuff series for men, you can regain hope and purpose in what seems to be your out-of-control life. This practical, innovative Bible study isn't like any study you've ever seen before. The open-ended discussion questions allow you and your small group to discuss the tough stuff in life. Tackle disappointment and unease by exploring useful spiritual principles from savvy articles, pop culture, literature, and especially God's Word in the easy-to-understand language of The Message. Recommended Further Reading on Dealing With Disappointment |
God never simply buries our dead and broken dreams because He'd be burying our hearts along with our dreams. One of two positive things will happen. Either the dream will become fertilizer for something even better, or the Lord will give me the gumption and oomph to bring my dream to fruition. I can't lose either way!
Noni Joy Tari
Lord Jesus, failure and disappointment sometimes lead me to despair. I hide behind my pride and self-pity, withdrawing from you and others. Give me the hope I need and help me never to be afraid to begin again.
Anonymous
|Use our Search Engine to search via author or keyword|
