Quotes about Adversity

I've always been impressed that we are here, surviving, because of the indomitable courage of quite small people against impossible odds.

Real courage embraces the twin realities of current difficulty and ultimate triumph.

Necessity does the work of courage.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.

We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.

So when the crisis is upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a tough and stalwart antagonist... that you may prove a victor at the Great Games.

You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body.

But the Lord say he won't put more on us than we can stand. If we can't take it, he'll be right there beside us giving stren'th we didn't know we had.

Be careful," warned Nietzsche, "lest in fighting the dragon you become the dragon." I

Unlike many television evangelists, the apostle Paul seemed to expect from the Christian life not health and wealth, but a measure of suffering. He told Timothy, "In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted" (2 Timothy 3:12).

the important issue facing Christians who suffer is not "Is God responsible?" but "How should I react now that this terrible thing has happened?