Quotes about Circumstances
This next sentence is one of the most important spiritual truths you will ever learn: God develops the fruit of the Spirit in your life by allowing you to experience circumstances in which you're tempted to express the exact opposite quality! Character development always involves a choice, and temptation provides that opportunity.
- Rick Warren
Every time you forget that character is one of God's purposes for your life, you will become frustrated by your circumstances. You'll wonder, "Why is this happening to me? Why am I having such a difficult time?" One answer is that life is supposed to be difficult!
- Rick Warren
The peace we are offered is not a peace that is free from tragedy, illness, bankruptcy, divorce, depression, or heartache. It is peace rooted in the trust that the life Jesus gives us is deeper, wider, stronger, and more enduring than whatever our current circumstances are, because all we see is not all there is and the last word about us and our struggle has not yet been spoken.
- Rob Bell
Christ] has accomplished your salvation. But He has not yet perfected your circumstances. Do not be confused in the two.
- Kristen Heitzmann
A positive self-image has little relationship to our material circumstances.
- Ezra Taft Benson
My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.
- Denzel Washington
Life is never made unbearable by circumstances, but only by lack of meaning and purpose.
- Viktor E. Frankl
It ended. Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering - and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that one's interest was not the chief consideration in the other's thoughts.
- Emily Bronte
Whether we're happy with our circumstances or not, giving God praise is so important.
- Joyce Meyer
The strength he received from Christ was not the strength to change, deny, or defy his circumstances; it was the strength to be content in the midst of them, to surrender to God's loving will for him (Philippians 4:11—13).
- Peter Scazzero
God's plans and purposes for us are good, even when our circumstances are far from good.
- Peter Scazzero
The challenge of mindfulness is to work with the very circumstances that you find yourself in - no matter how unpleasant, how discouraging, how limited, how unending and stuck they may appear to be - and to make sure that you have done everything in your power to use their energies to transform yourself before you decide to cut your losses and move on.
- Jon Kabat-Zinn