Quotes about Adversity
Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.
- JC Ryle
There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.
- Charles Spurgeon
Lord, help me to see what comes my way as an opportunity instead of an inconvenience.
- Lysa TerKeurst
I understand that suffering, when it cannot be avoided, is here to help me on my way to my dreams
- Paulo Coelho
when one's avenue of retreat is cut off there is only one way to go - forward.
- Og Mandino
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood.
- Theodore Roosevelt
Divorce is one of the key predictors of poverty for a child growing up in a home that's broken.
- Mike Huckabee
One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Helen Keller was blind and deaf when she graduated from college with honors. So what's your problem?
- Charles Stanley
I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.
- Francis de Sales
He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.
- Julian of Norwich
Hope has two lovely daughters, anger and courage.
- St. Augustine