Quotes About Adversity

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

If the road is easy, you're likely going the wrong way.

When the whole world is crazy, it doesn't pay to be sane.

How thankful I am for Matthew 5:11: "Blessed are you when people insult you, persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you.

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy." —Martin Luther King Jr. They

Our moments of insurmountable circumstances are actually invitations from the Lord to choose to praise Him.

Too many Christians have known the agony of defeat without tasting the thrill of victory. One of your great learning experiences will be to see how quickly satan flees when you fire God's Word at him.

One-third of Americans have already been forced to change their lifestyle because their disposable income is gone. A guy can't go to the corner bar after a rough day at work to have a beer, that's gone to oil!

Look, as my mama always said, 'One monkey don't stop no show.

Several years ago the Lord said something to me that has helped me during hard times. He said: "Keep your eyes on the resurrection, and you can endure the cross.

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

Women piece together their lives from the scraps left over for them.

Out of the frying pan into the fire.

He who flees will fight again...

Evil doesn't die. It never dies. It just takes on a new face, a new name. Just because we've been touched by it once, it doesn't mean we're immune to ever being hurt again. Lightning can strike twice.

We are not as impervious as we think we are. - Dr Maura Isles

They want to break the only thing we have left, our spirits. I will not let them. No matter what they do to me.

the substantial outward things that happened to people were more mysterious really than all the invisible turmoil of the inner life, which we set such store by. The highest test was not in what you chose, but in how you lived out what befell you

There's only one way to live your life: facing forward.

When you throw dirt, you lose ground.

gates of hell and on in

Sur son trône d'airain le Destin qui s'en raille Imbibe leur éponge avec du fiel amer, Et la Nécessité les tord dans sa tenaille.

Había evitado las balas como las evitan los valientes, precipitándose a su encuentro.

when something painful or disagreeable happens to me, instead of a melancholy look, I answer by a smile. At first I did not always succeed, but now it has become a habit which I am glad to have acquired.