Endure Quotes

“Spiritual assets allow us to see more clearly, love more deeply, and act more courageously.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“Spiritual assets make us more resilient to the trauma and difficult experiences life inevitably throws at us.

Since spiritual assets bring us closer to our Higher Power, we do not face the difficulties alone, and we may find a greater purpose and meaning within the stress & trauma. When we lean on our spiritual assets to get us through, the traumatic event becomes less destructive. Instead, it becomes transformative; we see the difficulties in a new light.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“forgiveness isn’t a feeling, it’s a deliberate act of faith and a choice.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“spirituality does not have to be a scary, excluding, or arcane process, but instead that a spiritual life is a never-ending quest to become a more authentic, whole human being.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“Spirituality and each spiritual asset are nebulous and only understandable within the narrative of each person’s story.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“Forgiveness is a process of rebuilding of people’s lives to learn to live in reconciliation with each other, despite what happened.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“The act of faith is to trust, to act not knowing the outcome. To grow in faith is to make those actions as best we can without knowing the end results.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“Faith is the hope that life, after all, isn’t completely falling apart at the seams or taking a nose-dive into a meaningless abyss.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“It’s easy to cherry-pick passages from scripture and use them for your own purposes, without considering a verse’s original context.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“What I discovered is that faith doesn’t arise out of a vacuum.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“Yet, I still had hope. I hoped that I’d be able to manage to stay sober for just one day, and that one day, God could use me for good again. That hope gave me a reason to live and a purpose to commit to.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“Know that no refugee does so because he believes that he wants to take advantage of your economy or steal your jobs. The only reason we ran to risk death on a rubber boat is because a much more terrible monster called war chased us away from our homeland.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“the more I have been willing to accept, to own, and to embrace my story of addiction and redemption, the more resilient I am to whatever life throws at me, good or bad.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“The more we see that life isn’t about an individualistic challenge to conquer or overcome, and the more we see that, instead, we’re in this together, for better or worse, the more we will recognize we need to accept whatever we’re dealt. That’s not a promise that everything will work out in the end. For lots of folks, it doesn’t. I’ve seen that firsthand. What it means for me is that my experiences—bad or good—aren’t the end of it all anyway. The Creator weaves the fabric of life for a purpose greater than any of us really knows.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“maybe community is everyone, and the delineations we impose are really artificial.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“The way we grow up as Natives is that we take that pain and weave it into our lives. We welcome the pain in, because there’s nothing you can do to change it, and by its very existence, the pain has already changed you. We take the pain in, because there is no way you can really compartmentalize or segregate that pain. You have to create the harmony of the good and the bad and say to yourself: the good and the bad come together. The bad stuff happened, it did, but it doesn’t destroy who I am at my core.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“That kid should have killed me with that gun, but didn’t. But here’s the thing: I was totally fine with that. Because of the way I was raised, I was fine with it then, in the moment he could have killed me, and I’m fine with it today. I suppose I could have shot back. I could have defended myself. As a soldier, I sure would have been okay with making that choice. I didn’t though, because I wasn’t willing to take that kid’s life in exchange for mine. I knew, right in that moment, that I was okay with dying because it meant that the boy would have gotten to live. He would have been able to grow up with the freedom to decide as a man whether to hate and kill or leave folks be.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“when we recognize how much we have received from others, we begin to see our lives as a gift.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“research indicates that anger negatively correlates with resilience. A fascinating and broadly cited study published in 2003 sought to determine what role positive emotions (such as hopefulness or gratitude) had in a crisis. The researchers chose the attacks on September 11, 2001, as the crisis event. What they found was astonishing. Not only did positive emotions have a positive correlation with resilience; negative emotions clearly indicated a poor outcome. Anger (especially ongoing, continual anger) was the number one indicator that a person would not be able to resume functioning as he had before the crisis. Fuming in anger, apparently, doesn’t enable us to bounce back very well.10”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“Resilience is a person’s capacity to “bounce back” after a difficult or traumatic experience.It’s more than just a person’s ability to adapt to stress. Rather, anyone can learn adaptations that may contribute to an ongoing process of recovery. One adaptation in particular is acknowledging and identifying spiritual assets that we may use to help us get our lives back.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“Spiritual gifts become spiritual assets when we use them to nurture our spiritual life.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“spiritual assets seemed to contribute positively to every struggler’s resilience.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“Giving up was the first step toward true honesty. Giving up meant willingness to try something else, to have the courage to look at myself and say, “Yes, I’m willing to look at things for how they really are and accept them.” I needed the honesty, and the courage to give up.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress

“In a stupor and the relative comfort of the blur of drunkenness, time goes by more quickly.”
― Daniel D. Maurer, Endure: The Power of Spiritual Assets for Resilience to Trauma & Stress