People behave and develop very differently in the face of crises. When individuals manage highly stressful situations or life phases in a way that they emerge matured and satisfied, this phenomenon is described from a social science perspective as resilience. Elias Stangl extensively engages with the concept of resilience in his study and analyzes the potentials of an actively lived faith. He draws on his qualitative empirical study and highlights the life of faith as a resource for resilience: faith can empower. What implications could this previously overlooked insight have for the Christian understanding of humanity as well as for church pastoral care?.