Quotes about Adversity

You born here? Naw. Down south. Jacksonville, Florida. Bad country, boy. Bad, bad country. You know they ain't even got an orphanage in Jacksonville where colored babies can go? They have to put 'em in jail. I tell people that talk about them sit ins I was raised in jail, and it don't scare me none.

Other people went crazy, why couldn't she? Other people's brains stopped, turned around and went on to something new...

How long had childhood trauma hurtled him away from the rip and wave of life?

One by fire, one by water, two of what he had so intensely loved gone, he thought. He couldn't lose a third.

Having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace creates a stability that even Satan cannot undo.

God tells us that when we do not listen to His Son and apply His truth, He will shake up our lives in order to get our attention (see Hebrews 12:10-11).

Through thick and thin, drought and flood, good times and bad, even though there's opposition, even though things may not be working out the way we had hoped or planned, we have one goal in this one short life we live on planet earth: Do not lose focus. Serve the purposes of God.

Trials are adverse circumstances that God introduces or allows in order to identify where we are spiritually and to prepare us for where He wants us to go.

A kingdom man is the kind of man that when his feet hit the floor each morning the devil says, "Oh crap, he's up!

Your living is determined not so much by what life brings to you as by the attitude you bring to life not so much by what happens to you as by the way your mind looks at what happens.

Haters are a good problem to have. Nobody hates the good ones. They hate the great ones.

You have not been put on earth for the devil to torment you, you have been put on this earth to torment the devil.