Quotes about Adversity
For if God be on our side, what matter maketh it who be against us, be they bishops, cardinals, popes, or whatsoever names they will?
- William Tyndale
God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
- John Maxwell
Sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.
- DA Carson
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
- Elisabeth Elliot
In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.
- Horatius Bonar
It does not matter how great the pressure is. What really matters is where the pressure lies -- whether it comes between you and God, or whether it presses you nearer His heart.
- Hudson Taylor
This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.
- Martin Luther
How blessed to know that when the world hates us, God loves us!
- AW Pink
The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.
- Mark Batterson
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
- Henry Ward Beecher
We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
- John Calvin
See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.
- John of the Cross