Quotes about Adversity

so God's honor is to take precedence over our feelings. We honor God by choosing to trust Him when we don't understand what He is doing or why He has allowed some adverse circumstance to occur. As we seek God's glory, we may be sure that He has purposed our good and that He will not be frustrated in fulfilling that purpose.

We must believe this and cling to this in the face of adversity and tragedy, if we are to glorify God by trusting Him.

If you stop and think about it, you will realize that most godly character traits can only be developed through adversity.

Our first priority in times of adversity is to honor and glorify God by trusting Him.

But even here we must be careful that we are not seeking to satisfy our souls by finding some spiritual "good" in the adversity. Rather we must trust God that He is working in the experience for our good, even when we see no beneficial results. We must learn to trust God when He doesn't tell us why, when we don't understand what He is doing.

We are to look beyond our adversity to what God is doing in our lives and rejoice in the certainty that He is at work in us to cause us to grow.

My own experience suggests that Satan attacks us far more in the area of God's love than either His sovereignty or His wisdom.

If God's love was sufficient for my greatest need, my eternal salvation, surely it is sufficient for my lesser needs, the adversities I encounter in this life.

In order to trust God in adversity we must believe that God is completely sovereign, perfect in love, and infinite in wisdom.

You see, it is the effects of your being fired, not the act itself that determines whether you are tempted to become bitter.

Just as we should learn to stop asking why, or searching for rational explanations, or seeking to discover what "good" there is in our own adversities, so we must also learn to quiet our hearts in regard to God's government of the universe.

Above all else, our response to adversity should be to seek God's glory.