Quotes about Adversity

Licitis perimus omnes

It is difficulties that show what men are.

Ruin and recovery are both from within.

Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.

Everything has two handles,--one by which it may be borne another by which it cannot.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Circumstances don't make the man, they only reveal him to himself.

You don't develop courage by being happy in your relationships everyday. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

Simply suffering—that is what will be needed then—not parries, blows or thrusts such as may still be possible or admissible in the preliminary fight; the real struggle that perhaps lies ahead must simply be to suffer faithfully... For sometime the church struggle hasn't even been about what it appears to be about; the lines have been drawn somewhere else entirely.

All right," he wrote, "if [the devil] devours me he shall devour a laxative (God willing) which will make his bowels and anus too tight for him. Do you want to bet? One has to suffer if he wants to possess Christ."

Fireproof doesn't mean that a fire will never come, but that when it comes you'll be able to withstand it.