Quotes about Adversity
To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!
- AW Pink
Our problems may stay, our circumstances may remain, but we know God is in control. We are focused on His adequacy, not our inadequacy.
- Charles Stanley
His enemies had counted on the lions taking care of Daniel. What they hadn't counted on was his God taking care of Daniel.
- Tony Evans
Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
- Ann Voskamp
It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.
- Ayn Rand
In our adversity, God shouts to us.
- CS Lewis
Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.
- Joel Osteen
Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
We should be reminding ourselves that no matter how many problems may be facing us, the One Who is with us is greater than all those who oppose us.
- Joyce Meyer
If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.
- Oswald Chambers
Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.
- Joyce Meyer
God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.
- Muhammad Ali