Quotes about Adversity
God often goes by contrary means, and makes the enemy do his work. He can make a straight stroke with a crooked stick.
- Thomas Watson
Every cross, to a child of God, is like Paul's cross wind, which, though it broke the ship, it brought Paul to shore upon the broken pieces.
- Thomas Watson
Affliction may leap on us as the viper did on Paul, but at last it shall be shaken off.
- Thomas Watson
After a bitter pill, God gives sugar.
- Thomas Watson
The last thing the devil wants you to do is be an obedient Christian.
- Joyce Meyer
The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.
- Norman Vincent Peale
The hammer shatters glass but forges steel.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Winston Churchill expresses it well. He says, "Success is never final. Failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.
- Norman Vincent Peale
cannot prevent birds from flying over your head, but you can keep them from building nests in your hair.
- Norman Vincent Peale
Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle
- Norman Vincent Peale
The secret of life isn't what happens to you but what you do with what happens to you.
- Norman Vincent Peale