Quotes about Adversity

For this reason, when I could bear it no longer, I sent to find out about your faith, for fear that the tempter had somehow tempted you and caused our labor to be in vain.

Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated.

Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial that has come upon you, as though something strange were happening to you.

So do not be surprised, brothers, if the world hates you.

I know your affliction and your poverty—though you are rich! And I am aware of the slander of those who falsely claim to be Jews, but are in fact a synagogue of Satan.

Even when things seem to be going wrong, they just could be going right because when you're in God's will, the negatives are part of his positive program.

There are flowers growing, and saplings are striving to push up past the ashes. There is life amid death. Hope in the midst of adversity.

A person had to keep herself in one piece when everything around her was falling apart.

In our world, you sink or swim, and there are no excuses.

Suppose you are a little, nimble guy being chased by a big, fat, bully. You open a door and find yourself in a staircase. Do you go up or down? I say up. The bully can probably run downstairs as fast as you can. Going upstairs his bulk will be more of a disadvantage. Running upstairs is hard for you but even harder for him.

And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather the strength to keep on going forward despite the fear.

we're allowed to make a lot of mistakes in our lives, except the mistake that destroy us