65 Spiritual Inspirational Quotes to Uplift You in Difficult Times

""I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.""

- Elizabeth Gilbert

""A Prayer: Refuse to fall down / If you cannot refuse to fall down / refuse to stay down / If you cannot refuse to stay down / lift your heart toward heaven / and like a hungry beggar / ask that it be filled. / You may be pushed down. / You may be kept from rising. / But no one can keep you from lifting your heart toward heaven only you. / It is in the middle of misery that so much becomes clear. / The one who says nothing good came of this, is not yet listening.""

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

- Rumi

""As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation — either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.""

- Martin Luther King Jr.

""You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.""

- Maya Angelou

""I do not understand the mystery of grace — only that it meets us where we are and does not leave us where it found us.""

- Anne Lamott

""Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.""

- Fred Rogers

""We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.""

- Joseph Campbell

""It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.""

- Joseph Campbell

""Someday you’re gonna look back on this moment of your life as such a sweet time of grieving. You’ll see that you were in mourning and your heart was broken, but your life was changing…""

- Elizabeth Gilbert

""Since brokenness is the way of folks, the only way to live peacefully is to forgive everyone constantly, including yourself.""

- Glennon Doyle Melton

""As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.""

- Maya Angelou

""What is that which can never die It is that faithful force that is born into us that one that is greater than us that calls new seed to the open and battered and barren places so that we can be resown.""

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

""Pain is a pesky part of being human, I’ve learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can’t be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing.""

- C. JoyBell C.

""So what is it in a human life that creates bravery, kindness, wisdom, and resilience? What if it’s pain? What if it’s the struggle?""

- Glennon Doyle Melton

"Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand."

- Isaiah 41:10

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."

- God

"My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."

- Psalm 73:26

"But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me."

- 2 Corinthians 12:9

"I can do all things through him who strengthens me."

- Philippians 4:13

"Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the LORD your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you."

- Deuteronomy 31:6

"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea."

- Psalm 46:1-2

"Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong."

- 1 Corinthians 16:13

"He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength. Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men shall fall exhausted; but they who wait for the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles; they shall run and not be weary; they shall walk and not faint."

- Isaiah 40:29–31

"No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord."

- Romans 8:37–39

"In the midst of chaos, there is also opportunity."

- Sun Tzu

"You must do the things you think you cannot do."

- ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

"Believe you can and you're halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. How do you know this is the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at the moment."

- Eckhart Tolle

"As you breathe in, cherish yourself. As you breathe out, cherish all beings."

- Dalai Lama

"Every single thing He has ever or will ever say is true. The simplicity of faith is this: taking God’s Word for it."

- Jackie Hill Perry

"We can let go of burdens like condemnation and worry, perfectionism and insecurity. And we can cling desperately—even through tears—to the assurance that God knows, he cares, and he loves us with an infinite love. We can lay our burdens at the feet of Christ and receive what he offers instead."

- Sarah J. Hauser

"The answer to our fears is faith—real, fear-shrinking faith—in the God who loves us and gave himself for us."

- Jani Ortlund

"Faith is not the belief that God will do what you want. It is the belief that God will do what is right."

- Max Lucado

"Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God."

- Corrie ten Boom

"God never said that the journey will be easy, but he did say that the arrival will be worthwhile."

- Max Lucado

"Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."

- Saint Augustine

"Faith is not believing in my own unshakable belief. Faith is believing an unshakable God when everything in me trembles and quakes."

- Beth Moore

"Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible."

- Corrie Ten Boom

"We can’t create a new future while we’re living in our past. It’s simply impossible."

- Joe Dispenza

"True faith rests upon the character of God and asks no further proof than the moral perfections of the One who cannot lie."

- A.W. Tozer

"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen."

- Brene Brown

"Trust that your wounds are exactly as the Universe planned. They were divinely placed in your life in the perfect order so that you could show up for them with love and remember the light within."

- Gabrielle Bernstein

"Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light."

- Helen Keller

"All the work you’ve done up until now has been to lead you to this precise moment, to face precisely what you’re facing."

- Baron Baptiste

"Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us."

- Marianne Williamson

"Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future."

- Deepak Chopra

"To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible."

- Thomas Aquinas

"In the end, just three things matter: How well we have lived. How well we have loved. How well we have learned to let go."

- Jack Kornfield

"The whole point of being alive is to evolve into the complete person you were intended to be."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

- Rumi

"We create the world we live in. If we want to change what we don't like in the world, we must start by changing what we don't like about ourselves."

- Sharon Gannon

"My faith didn't remove the pain, but it got me through the pain. Trusting God didn't diminish or vanquish the anguish, but it enabled me to endure it."

- Robert Rogers

"Every day you need to get a full dose of the Word and meditate on scripture, and if you discipline yourself and remain consistent, your faith will grow and mature, and remember that God, the Word, and your faith, is a recipe for success."

- Stephanie Williams

""Nature does not ask permission. Blossom and birth whenever you feel like it.""

- Clarissa Pinkola Estés

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The best way out is always through."

- Robert Frost

""There comes a time in your life, when you walk away from all the drama and people who create it. You surround yourself with people who make you laugh. Forget the bad and focus on the good. Love the people who treat you right, pray for the ones who do not. Life is too short to be anything but happy. Falling down is a part of life, getting back up is living.""

- José N. Harris

""Your problem is how you are going to spend this one and precious life you have been issued. Whether you’re going to spend it trying to look good and creating the illusion that you have power over circumstances, or whether you are going to taste it, enjoy it and find out the truth about who you are.""

- Anne Lamott

""The dark does not destroy the light; it defines it. It’s our fear of the dark that casts our joy into the shadows.""

- Brené Brown

""It’s good to do uncomfortable things. It’s weight training for life.""

- Anne Lamott

""The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.""

- Robert James Waller

""In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.""

- Brennan Manning

""Live, so you do not have to look back and say: ‘God, how I have wasted my life.’""

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

""I think one of the keys to happiness is accepting that I am never going to be perfectly happy. Life is uncomfortable. So I might as well get busy loving the people around me.""

- Glennon Doyle Melton

""What if pain – like love – is just a place brave people visit?""

- Glennon Doyle Melton

"Let us not be surprised when we have to face difficulties. When the wind blows hard on a tree, the roots stretch and grow the stronger, Let it be so with us. Let us not be weaklings, yielding to every wind that blows, but strong in spirit to resist."

- Amy Carmichael

"Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see."

- Corrie ten Boom

"God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world."

- C.S. Lewis

"If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart."

- Oswald Chambers

"Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves."

- Joni Eareckson Tada

"The only way to do great work is to love what you do."

- Steve Jobs

""Should you shield the canyons from the windstorms you would never see the true beauty of their carvings.""

- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

"Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

""We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.""

- Brené Brown

"God never uses anyone greatly until he tests them deeply."

- A.W. Tozer

""What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.""

- Starhawk

"If you believe in yourself and feel confident in yourself, you can do anything. I really believe that."

- Karlie Kloss

"There is no difference in souls, only the ideas about ourselves that we wear."

- B.K.S. Iyengar

"Heaven on Earth is a choice you must make, not a place you must find."

- Wayne Dyer

"Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore."

- Cheryl Strayed

"The spiritual life does not remove us from the world but leads us deeper into it."

- Henri J.M. Nouwen

"Destiny, I feel, is also a relationship - a play between divine grace and willful self-effort."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"What I’m looking for is not out there, it is in me."

- Helen Keller

"The real mission you have in life is to make yourself happy, and in order to be happy, you have to look at what you believe, the way you judge yourself, the way you victimize yourself."

- Miguel Ruiz

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

- Maya Angelou

"Travel light, live light, spread the light, be the light."

- Yogi Bhajan

"Every time we become aware of a thought, as opposed to being lost in a thought, we experience that opening of the mind."

- Joseph Goldstein

"You can do no greater harm than to fail to follow your inner truth."

- Bhagavad Gita

"Hearing how God is moving in other places encourages and inspires our faith for what God wants to do in our own corner of the world."

- Matt Brown

"We can look at Job, we can look at Lamentations, we can look at the Psalms, we can look at so many heroes of the faith who at different times had questions, who faced unbelief, yet God kept them, and they continued, in their doubts, to lean towards God, to lean and doubt in a way that continued to keep them attached to the vine and seeking Jesus in all of it."

- Laura Wifler

"Believe in yourself, and the rest will fall into place. Have faith in your own abilities, work hard, and there is nothing you cannot accomplish."

- Brad Henry

"Believe in yourself when nobody else does."

- Mary J. Blige

"Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them."

- Mahalia Jackson

"The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness."

- Henry David Thoreau

"The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith."

- Billy Graham

"Always believe in yourself and keep going. You don't have to have the most talent in the world. You don't have to be the smartest person in the world. If you persist and you persist and you persist, you will be successful."

- Dean Cain

"Faith gives you an inner strength and a sense of balance and perspective in life."

- Gregory Peck

"And our faith changes us. I know it’s changed me. It renews in us a sense of possibility. It allows us to believe that although we are all sinners, and that at times we will falter, there’s always the possibility of redemption. Every once in a while, we might get something right, we might do some good."

- President Barack Obama

"In faith, there is enough light for those who want to believe and enough shadows to blind those who don’t."

- Blaise Pascal

"Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."

- Voltaire

"Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."

- C.S. Lewis

"Seeds of faith are always within us; sometimes it takes a crisis to nourish and encourage their growth."

- Susan Taylor

"To love means loving the unlovable. To forgive means pardoning the unpardonable. Faith means believing the unbelievable. Hope means hoping when everything seems hopeless."

- G.K. Chesterton

"Sometimes the worst conditions can often provide the best atmosphere to act in faith. God doesn't want our confidence regulated by our audience. If faith-discouragers can shake our confidence badly enough to disable us, our confidence may be in ourselves instead of God."

- Beth Moore

"It is a blessing for our children to see us live out our faith—trusting in God’s good character and provision—even when we don’t have all the answers."

- Marissa Bondurant

"I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason."

- Elie Wiesel

"I’ve been protected, I’ve been directed, I’ve been corrected. I’ve kept God in my life and it’s kept me humble. I didn’t always stick with Him but he always stuck with me."

- Denzel Washington

"If you lose faith, you lose all."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"I believe that God has put gifts and talents and ability on the inside of every one of us. When you develop that and you believe in yourself and you believe that you're a person of influence and a person of purpose, I believe you can rise up out of any situation."

- Joel Osteen

"It's important to believe in yourself and the beauty of your dreams and to not let anyone tell you different."

- Victoria Arlen

"Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy."

- Norman Vincent Peale

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Faith is not contrary to reason."

- Sherwood Eddy

"Just as love is a verb, so is faith."

- Nannie Helen Burroughs

"In this hour, I do not believe that any darkness will endure."

- J.R.R. Tolkien

"For truly we are all angels temporarily hiding as humans."

- Brian Weiss

"Faith is about doing. You are how you act, not just how you believe."

- Mitch Albom

"Flowers don’t open and close according to who is walking by. They open and show their beauty regardless."

- Rebecca Campbell

"I'm not perfect. I'm never going to be. And that's the great thing about living the Christian life and trying to live by faith, is you're trying to get better every day. You're trying to improve."

- Tim Tebow

"Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother."

- Khalil Gibran

"You can have whatever you want if you believe in yourself and keep your feet firmly planted in the ground."

- A. J. McLean

"Faith that it's not always in your hands or things don't always go the way you planned, but you have to have faith that there is a plan for you, and you must follow your heart and believe in yourself no matter what."

- Martina McBride

"Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it."

- Diane Sawyer

"If you have a good support system like your family and your friends around you, then you can't go wrong. So just believe in yourself, do you your thing, and stay strong in what you believe in."

- Roman Reigns

"And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it."

- Paulo Coelho

"When you go through a trial, the sovereignty of God is the pillow upon which you lay your head."

- Charles Spurgeon

"God uses valleys to mold our character."

- Lee Stroble

"I do not always feel His presence, but God’s promises do not depend upon my feelings, they rest upon His integrity."

- R.C. Sproul

"The Lord continues to empty us in order to teach us to lay aside all self-reliance, that we may cling to Christ alone."

- Paul Washer

"Sometimes God’s refusals are His mercies."

- Elisabeth Elliot

"How sweet is rest, after fatigue! How sweet will Heaven be, when our toilsome journey is ended."

- George Whitefield

"Technology is nothing. What's important is that you have a faith in people, that they're basically good and smart, and if you give them tools, they'll do wonderful things with them."

- Steve Jobs

"Stand straight, walk proud, have a little faith."

- Garth Brooks

"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."

- Alan Watts

"Faith is a state of openness or trust."

- Alan Watts

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life."

- John 3:16

"Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen."

- Hebrews 11:1

"For nothing will be impossible with God."

- Luke 1:37

"For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one may boast."

- Ephesians 2:8-9

"This too shall pass."

- Pinterest

"A grateful heart is a beginning of greatness. It is an expression of humility. It is a foundation for the development of such virtues as prayer, faith, courage, contentment, happiness, love, and well-being."

"For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world. And this is the victory that has overcome the world—our faith."

"And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him."

"Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with an inexpressible and glorious joy, for you are receiving the end result of your faith, the salvation of your souls."

"Because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance."

"Commit your way to the Lord; trust in him, and he will act. He will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your justice as the noonday."

"Then Jesus said, 'Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?'"

"And Jesus said to him, 'Go your way; your faith has made you well.' And immediately he recovered his sight and followed him on the way."

"But when you ask, you must believe and not doubt, because the one who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind."

"But someone will say, 'You have faith and I have works.' Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works."

"In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven."

"And by faith even Sarah, who was past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the promise."