Quotes about Adversity

We were not afraid. And yet, if a bomb had fallen on the blocks, it alone would have claimed hundreds of victims on the spot. But we were no longer afraid of death; at any rate, not of that death. Every bomb that exploded filled us with joy and gave us new confidence in life.

Suffering confers no privileges; it is what one does with suffering that matters.

Failure means nothing now, only that it taught me life.

The gate is narrow but not the life. The gate opens out into largeness of life.

Sometimes life is so hard you can only do the next thing.Whatever that is just do the next thing.God will meet you there.

So if you get all hung up, thinking now is this thing from God or is it from Satan? Is this the voice of God or the voice of Satan? Stop worrying about it. You don't really need to sort that out because here's a case where the thorn was in a sense given by God as a messenger of Satan.

The real question we need to face is exactly what a Christian is supposed to do when terrible things happen. There are two choices, and only two: We can trust God or we can defy Him. We believe that God is God, He's still got the whole world in His hands and knows exactly what He's doing, or we must believe that He is not God and we are at the awful mercy of mere chance.

I want to be free of self-pity. It is a tool of Satan to rot away a life.

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.

Just as stars shine brightest in the darkest night, your joy blazes brilliantly through life's problems when you count them as joy.

Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.

YOU might be limited by a life situation, but GOD is never hampered. Praise Him!