Quotes about Adversity
Every wall is a door.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
No change in circumstances can repair a defect of character.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every calamity is a spur and a valuable hint.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
As long as all that is said is said against me, I feel a certain sublime assurance of success, but as soon as honied words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one that lies unprotected before his enemies.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We are like travelers using the cinders of a volcano to roast their eggs.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him, not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Our strength grows out of our weakness
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
SCRIVEN (1820—1886) wrote "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" after his fiancée drowned. George Matheson (1842—1906) wrote "O Love That Wilt Not Let Me Go" after his fiancée rejected him because he was going blind.
- Randy Alcorn
any faith that leaves us unprepared for suffering is a false faith that deserves to be abandoned. Genuine
- Randy Alcorn
God's ownership and sovereignty offer a life-changing and freeing perspective when the house is robbed (or burns to the ground), the car is totaled, the laptop computer is stolen . . . or the diagnosis is terminal cancer.
- Randy Alcorn
God trained Moses in a palace to use him in a desert. He trained Joseph in a desert to use him in a palace.
- Ravi Zacharias
What suffering teaches us is that three blessings flow from its tutelage: (1) the blessing of an amplified testimony, (2) the blessing of a fulfilled identity, and (3) the blessing of unshakable faith and strength that never drains away.
- Ravi Zacharias