Quotes about Adversity
There is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
- Paulo Coelho
But there is suffering in life, and there are defeats. No one can avoid them. But it's better to lose some of the battles in the struggles for your dreams than to be defeated without ever knowing what you're fighting for.
- Paulo Coelho
The secret of life, though, is to fall seven times and to get up eight times.
- Paulo Coelho
At times there is a crushing before a crowning.
- Perry Stone
Persecution is designed to make you run away from the Word (Matthew 13:21).
- Perry Stone
Strong believers will run to the Word and not from the Word in times of attack.
- Perry Stone
Weeds choke the life out of anything good that might grow.
- Perry Stone
If God is with you, who can be against you?
- Perry Stone
The wilderness creates unusual pressures and challenges.
- Perry Stone
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
- Genesis 31:40
Although Potiphar’s wife spoke to Joseph day after day, he refused to go to bed with her or even be near her.
- Genesis 39:10
After them, seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by the east wind.
- Genesis 41:6