Quotes About Adversity

When fighting for your life, it may simply be too easy to flip the switch to "rock 'n' roll," no matter how wasteful and useless this might be.

Yes, our defensive strategies had saved the human race, but what about the human spirit?

I don't know if great times make great men, but I know they can kill them.

What else can go wrong," I grumbled, just as it began to rain.

knowledge is only part of the fight for survival.

Dead end!" I shouted at the netherrack wall as Summer said something rude I will not copy in these pages!

eyes fixed on this growing, closing horde. I was, like, "C'mon, Zack, let's fuckin' do this!

He said that Americans are the only people he's ever met who just can't accept that bad things can happen to good people.

All positivity all the time. Learn to fly, even if it's in the Hindenburg.

La liberté n'est pas un aliment que tous les estomacs puissent digérer sans préparation - Jacques Pierre Brissot, Le Patriote Français

Knowing how to get out of a bad situation may be the rarest of all speculative gifts.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children & battle addictions & as a result, face fears. Its not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It's whom we discover in the storm; an unstirred Christ.

But God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test, and teach the future prime minister. We see a prison; God sees a kiln. We see famine; God sees the relocation of his chosen lineage. We call it Egypt; God calls it protective custody, where the sons of Jacob can escape barbaric Canaan and multiply abundantly in peace. We see Satan's tricks and ploys. God sees Satan tripped and foiled.

Anybody can preach a sermon on a mount surrounded by daisies. But only one with a gut full of faith can live a sermon on a mountain of pain.

If you see your troubles as nothing more than isolated hassles and hurts, you'll grow bitter and angry. Yet if you see your troubles as tests used by God for his glory and your maturity, then even the smallest incidents take on significance.

Rather than ask God to change your circumstances, ask him to use your circumstances to change you. Life is a required course. Might as well do your best to pass it.

Christ-followers contract malaria, bury children, and battle addictions, and, as a result, face fears. It's not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It's whom we discover in the storm: an unstirred Christ.

The difficulties have taken much away. I get that. But there is one gift your trouble cannot touch: your destiny.

Like Joseph, you've been dumped into the pit. And, like Joseph, you choose to heed the call of God on your life. It's not easy. You're tempted to get even. But you choose instead to ponder your destiny.

I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength. (Phil. 4:11–13 NIV)

The story of Joseph is in the Bible for this reason: to teach you to trust God to trump evil. What Satan intends for evil, God, the Master Weaver and Master Builder, redeems for good.

As for you, you meant evil against me, but God meant it for good in order to bring about this present result, to preserve many people alive. (Genesis 50:20 NASB)

Pits have no easy exits.