Quotes About Adversity

Oysters are a lot like women. It's how we survive the hurts in life that brings us strength and gives us our beauty.

You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives" (Genesis 50:20).

Sometimes the worst conditions can often provide the best atmosphere to act in faith. God doesn't want our confidence regulated by our audience. If faith-discouragers can shake our confidence badly enough to disable us, our confidence may be in ourselves instead of God.

When you are trying to discern whether God or Satan is the author of a hardship, one of your best clues is whether sin is involved. God never entices us to sin, nor does he employ sin or perversion as a means of molding us into the image of Christ. Impossible!

The enemy's hope for Christians is that we will either be so ineffective we have no testimony, or we'll ruin the one we have.

The trick to dealing with criticism is letting it do it's good work but forbidding it to demoralize and destroy or to embitter.

But for those who resist insisting on idyllic circumstances and faultless people, new beginnings can be had.

Oppression is hardball. Though the range can vary, oppression is the closest Satan or his demons can get to a believer.

Victory always assumes a counterpart defeat. We will never take our places as "more than overcomers" with nothing to overcome. We will never be victors without opponents.

We may as well accept faith challenges as a fact of life and not be shocked or feel picked on when they come.

Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the LORD will be my light. Because I have sinned against him, I will bear the LORD's wrath, until he pleads my case and establishes my right. He will bring me out into the light; I will see his righteousness. (Mic. 7:8–9)

Perhaps the most profound miracle of all is living through something we thought would kill us.

If God has allowed something difficult to happen to one of his children, he plans to use it mightily, if the child lets him.

We will never take our places as "more than overcomers" with nothing to overcome. We will never be victors without opponents.

And when enough hardship happens within a small circumference, the roads to all the familiar places are little more than crisscrossing scars. By the time every direction you could take at a four-way stop—right, left, straight ahead, or reverse—carries the stomach-turning scent of carnage, moving can mean surviving.

Simon, Simon, look out! Satan has asked to sift you like wheat. But I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail. Luke 22:31–32

My foes will rejoice because I am shaken. But I have trusted in Your faithful love; my heart will rejoice in Your deliverance. Psalm 13:4–5

The thing about life is that, for most folks, it hurts from the start.

When we live under the umbrella of God's authority and seek to obey His commands, the enemy may oppose us and even oppress us, but he cannot thwart the fulfillment of God's plan for our lives.

Refuse to let your enemy pluck away the seeds God has planted. Let these truths take root, and cultivate them with belief.

What then are we to say about these things? If God is for us, who is against us? Romans 8:31

Opposition is anything that opposes (1) us, (2) the work God desires to do in us, and (3) the work God desires to do through us.

I don't believe that rejection, in and of itself, is a stronghold. It's our reaction to rejection that determines whether or not we become bound by it.

Satan will try to stir up what our faithful Refiner wants to skim off.