Quotes about Adversity
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
- Abraham Lincoln
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
- Abraham Lincoln
If there is one thing you can count on in your life, it's that your path will not always be easy.
- Tony Evans
Try not to pay attention to those who will try to make life miserable for you. There will be a lot of those - in the official capacity as well as the self-appointed.
- Joseph Brodsky
I've been put in multiple boxes as blogging and as an influencer and not really perceived as a businesswoman, and that's something that I've really had to grow into.
- Huda Kattan
The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Persevering is a fight. That's what a fight is. You face something, you persevere through it, you meet it head on.
- Joseph Benavidez
In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
- Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
At the end of the day, the enemy is going to be sorry he ever messed with you. You're about to become his worst nightmare a million times over. He thought he could wear you down, sure that after a while you'd give up without much of a fight. Well, just wait till he encounters the fight of God's Spirit in you. Because . . . This. Means. War.
- Priscilla Shirer
Pain will force even the truthful to speak falsely
- Publilius Syrus
Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them.
- Publilius Syrus
When the brook dries up because there is no rain, but you say, "Praise the Lord," you bring great honor to God. Trust Him to show you the next step forward. He will. He is never too early, never too late, but always just on time. When God closes a door, He opens a window. Learn to accept the closed door and be prepared for the surprising window that will open. It opened for Elijah and it will open for you.
- RT Kendall