Quotes about Adversity

We see that all those harsh realities aren't the end, but rather a temporary middle space. Not the place where we are meant to wallow and dwell. Rather the place through which we will have to learn to wrestle well.

I'm not equipped to handle what she has, both good and bad--and what she has is always a package deal of both.

If Satan can use our everyday experiences, both big and small, to cripple our true identity, then he renders God's people totally ineffective for the kingdom of Christ.

Even amid hardship, trials, and things that don't go the way we want them to, we can find something to be joyful about.

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.

We can't always fix our circumstances, but we can fix our minds on God. We can do that.

Even when people turned on Jesus, He didn't let a goodbye turn Him into someone He was never meant to be

The breaking of us has actually been the making of us . . . the God-strengthened us He could use.

Without challenges and changes people tend to grow increasingly distant from God and resistant to His ways.

Heartbreaking seasons can certainly grow me but were never meant to define me.

I can't control the things that happen to me each day, but I can control how I think about them.

The first line grabs me by the throat. "Therefore we do not lose heart." Somebody knows how not to lose heart? I'm all ears. For we are losing heart. All of us. Daily. It is the single most unifying quality shared by the human race on the planet at this time. We are losing—or we have already lost—heart.