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Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears QUOTES

Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears QUOTES

1 " As we come to the end of ourselves, we open the door to discovering the One who created us anew. The One who can whisper to us who we really are as we pilgrim toward our truest and deepest selves. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

2 " Joy asks "What if God?" and declares "But if not! "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

3 " We need people who will reach out and hold our hands whenever we find ourselves walking in the dark. People who are quick to put our hearts at ease and swift to remind us how much we are loved. These are the friends who refresh us deep down when we need it most. These relationships are gifts worth seeking. Developing flourishing friendships takes time and intentionality, but these become the people who ground us and keep us going. They become peepholes through which we glimpse the kingdom of God, inspiration to become the best possible versions of ourselves even in the most difficult circumstances. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

4 " Joy means holding on to hope in God regardless of the outcome. Declaring we will give up everything and entrust ourselves more fully and wholly to the One who holds all things together. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

5 " One of the greatest promises to a child of God is that this life is not the end of the story. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

6 " Create your own permission slip for joy. Write three words: Accept. Adapt. Depend. Carry this permission slip with you. Tell your friends you’re working on becoming more content, more joyful. Take a nap. Live with a messy house for a time. Order takeout. File an extension on your taxes. Stare out the window. Linger in the company of a friend. Breathe in the fullness of life. Use those words to fight back with joy. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

7 " More than whimsy, joy is a weapon we use to fight life’s battles. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

8 " Joy would not deny the hardship, but would choose to acknowledge and face it no matter what the outcome. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

9 " Sometimes we need to give space for grief in order to make room for joy. No one is immune to sorrow, and only those who learn to grieve well can recapture the healing it brings.

Just as light needs darkness, so joy needs grief. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

10 " Habakkuk’s rejoicing does not center on circumstances; it’s founded on God’s intent and ability to save. Rejoicing is not a prescription as much as a gateway to possibility. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

11 " When we fight back with joy, we embrace a reality that is more real than what we’re enduring and we awaken to the deepest reality of our identity as beloved, joyful children of God. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

12 " Leif’s hands pressed on my shoulders, muscles turned "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

13 " The journey to joy begins with acceptance. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

14 " Most of us discover early on that it's safer to hide behind prayers that can't be measured, petitions so nebulous they don't require intervention from God. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

15 " But the spiritual growth we experience in trying times, though often more gradual and painful than we'd like, is occasion for celebration. It's not in the absence of difficulties but in their presence that God bestows a mighty blessing on us. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

16 " Even microscopic offering cement our commitment to follow God in anything. This grace-given resolve to celebrate Christ in all things is fortified in the storms, not on the still seas. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

17 " I define joy as a spectrum of emotions, actions, and responses that includes gladness, cheer, happiness, merriment, delighting, dancing, shouting, exulting, rejoicing, laughing, playing, brightening, blessing and being blessed, taking pleasure in and being well pleased. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

18 " Fighting back with joy rarely makes sense. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

19 " Joy is irrational and takes hard work and does not always deliver a happily ever after. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears

20 " Our efforts to fight back with joy are riddled with the temptation to turn our backs, throw up our hands, and abandon the battle. That’s precisely when we need to praise, when our decision to rejoice matters most. Even microscopic offerings cement our commitment to follow God in anything. This grace-given resolve to celebrate Christ in all things is fortified in the storms, not on the still seas. "

― Margaret Feinberg , Fight Back With Joy: Celebrate More. Regret Less. Stare Down Your Greatest Fears