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15 Things You Need To Remember When Life Gets Rough

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Rania Naim
October 11, 2016
“I have faith in your strength, in your ability to rise back up after the fall, in your persistence to fight through the worst days of your life and in your courage to start over. I have faith that you will find your way out of the darkness and slowly let the light back in. I have faith that you will heal yourself because you can; because you will.”
— Rania Naim, Here’s What I’m Going To Tell You Instead Of ‘It Will Get Better’
Tagged: Resilience, Thought Catalog, Faith, Life
“The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering about sex and God and whether you should shave under your arms or not. These things are your becoming.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Tagged: Life, Journey, purpose, Faith, Hope, Dreams
“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Tagged: Love, Life, Challenges, Obstacles, Optimism, Faith, The Forty Rules Of Love, Rumi, Elif Shafak
“Because the Warrior of the Light believes in miracles, miracles begin to happen. Because he is sure that his thoughts can change his life, his life begins to change. Because he is certain that he will find love, love appears.”
— Paulo Coelho, Warrior Of The Light: A Manual
Tagged: Paulo Coelho, The Universe, Positive Thinking, Miracles, Life, Love, Faith
“Sorrow looks back. Worry looks around. Faith looks up.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays (Dover Thrift Editions)
Tagged: worry, Sorrow, Faith
“Once I had asked God for one or two extra inches in height, but instead he made me as tall as the sky, so high that I could not measure myself.”
— Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
Tagged: Voice Of Youth, Voice Of Strength, strength, Peace, Faith
“One day this will all make perfect sense. Trusting in this golden sunset that magically appeared in the middle of a rainstorm this evening. There is light in the dark. Sunsets in the storms. Beauty in the chaos.
Lesson of the evening: don't lose faith.”
— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl
Tagged: Lessons, Faith, Sunset, Magic, Beauty in chaos
“Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.”
— Rachel Brathen, @yoga_girl
Tagged: Doubt, Faith
“Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!”
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love: A Novel of Rumi
Tagged: Fate, God, Destiny, Faith
“Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.”
— Corrie ten Boom, The Speaker's Quote Book
Tagged: Future, God, unknown, Fear
“God knows your needs. And if being in a relationship and getting married is one of them, He will provide it to you. If not, you have God. And when you’ve got Him, you’ve got everything you really need.”
— Maine Belonio, 4 Biblical Truths To Live By When You’re Single And Searching For The One
Tagged: God, Faith, Christianity
“Maybe God has a better plan for me than I had for myself.”
— Nicholas Sparks, A Walk To Remember
Tagged: Dating, Love, God, Relationships
“He will heal you. He will heal your broken heart, he will ease your restless mind, and he will solve the mystery of your puzzled thoughts. He wants you to be patient but he will always fix you.”
— Rania Naim, 10 Things God Wants You To Remember When Life Gets Rough
Tagged: God, Faith, Hard Times
“I think part of the reason your story is so crazy is that God wants you to know that there is nothing constant except for him. That there is no one better to lean on and trust except for him, that there is no one who will bring you what you want except for him and there is no one who can rewrite your destiny except for him.”
— Rania Naim, There Is Something Liberating About Letting God Write Your Story
Tagged: God, Faith, Destiny
“And sometimes He doesn’t answer our prayers in the way we want Him to because He’s sheltering us from pain. Sometimes it looks like He doesn’t love us, when really He’s granting us the biggest gift.”
— Marisa Donnelly, Maybe God Isn’t Answering Your Prayer Because Something Even Better Is Coming
Tagged: God, Faith