Quotes about Adversity
But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else's gain.
- Mark Batterson
It's not about being in the right place at the right time; it's about being the right person, even if you find yourself in the wrong circumstances.
- Mark Batterson
Disappointment is like dream defibrillation. If we respond to it the right way, disappointment can actually restore our prayer rhythm and resurrect our dreams.
- Mark Batterson
When we suffer, God empowers us to face the worst and become our best.
- Mark Buchanan
When you are lying in bed angry with your backs turned towards each other, imagine Satan sleeping in the space between you.
- Mark Driscoll
When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.
- Mark Twain
I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
- Virginia Woolf
You may have had unfair things happen to you, but the depth of your pain is an indication of the height of your future.
- Joel Osteen
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
- Rob Bell
Handicaps can be converted into stepping stones on which one may climb toward some worthy goal, unless they are accepted as obstacles, and used as alibis.
- Napoleon Hill
Sometimes you may feel like you are just about to realize your goal only to fall short. That is no reason to quit. Defeat happens only to those who refuse to try again.
- Nick Vujicic
Courage is required to make an initial thrust towards ones coveted goal, But even greater courage is called for when one stumbles and must make a second effort to achieve.
- Thomas Monson