Quotes about Adversity

Our environment either inspires who we want to become or challenges us on what we must avoid.

For truly a dark and murderous enemy has already realized who you are. He knows your potential and is systematically trying to undermine your future. I believe that the attacks on your life have much more to do with who you might be in the future than who you have been in the past.

The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet.

Society is always trying in some way to grind us down to a single flat surface.

Never soar aloft on an enemy's pinions.

If you are going to walk with Jesus Christ, you are going to be opposed ... In our days, to be a true Christian is really to become a scandal.

If you lose money you lose much, If you lose friends you lose more, If you lose faith you lose all.

We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.

The circumstances and events that we see as setbacks are oftentimes the very things that launch us into periods of intense spiritual growth

Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

Every problem is a character-building opportunity, and the more difficult it is, the greater the potential for building spiritual muscle and moral fiber.

Come what may and love it.