Quotes About Adversity

On the edge of destiny, you must test your strength.

A sentence starts out like a lone traveler heading into a blizzard at midnight, tilting into the wind, one arm shielding his face, the tails of his thin coat flapping behind him.

Failure's not a bad thing. It builds character. It makes you stronger.

Out of defeat can come the best in human nature. As Christians face storms of adversity, they may rise with more beauty. They are like trees that grow on mountain ridges -- battered by winds, yet trees in which we find the strongest wood.

Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, But the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.

When the "evil day" comes, we do not have to be dependent upon the circumstances around us, but rather on the resources of God!

A spirit of thankfulness is one of the most distinctive marks of a Christian whose heart is attuned to the Lord. Thank God in the midst of trials and every persecution.

Mark my word, the day is coming when it's going to cost to live for Jesus Christ. We are, more and more, a minority, and that's exactly what it was like in the first century.

Popularity and adulation are far more dangerous for the Christian than persecution. It is easy when all goes smoothly to lose our sense of balance and perspective.

Nothing will drive us to our knees quicker than trouble.

The study [of Revelation] instructs us not only about the storms to come, but how to endure and come through them with great victory.

Jesus] asked [His followers] to count the cost carefully, lest they should turn back when they met with suffering and privation. He told His followers that the world would hate them.

The devil will try to discourage you, to divert you; he will seek to dilute your testimony; he will attempt anything to destroy your relationship to Christ and your influence upon others.

The time to prepare for life's disappointments and hurts is in advance.

Disappointments are part of life; we can't always have our own way, and we need to learn to separate what is significant from what is merely annoying. Only in heaven will we be free of all disappointments and failures. A friend of mine says, "Oh well, a hundred years from now it won't make any difference!

If the church is acceptable to this present age and is not suffering reproach, then it is not the true church that our Lord founded.

We don't deliberately look for trouble in life. It comes. Suffering is a universal fact; no one can escape its claws.

While we're looking up to see the rainbow—God's promises—we're ignoring floodwaters rising. While we're looking down to see how close we can get to the edge of the world without being trapped by Satan, we're taking our eyes off of Christ.

The more we yield to pressure, the more easily we will yield next time.

Discouragement is the opposite of faith. It is Satan's device to thwart the work of God in your life.

Christians who are strong in the faith grow as they accept whatever God allows to enter their lives.

The devil doesn't need to invent any new temptations; the old ones work as well as they ever have.

Without dark clouds in our lives we would never know the joy of sunshine. We can become callous and unteachable if we do not learn from pain.

Be sure that Satan will tempt you at your weak point, not the strong.