Quotes About Adversity

Life Lessons 4:1 — Then Jesus was led up by the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. The Holy Spirit led Jesus to a barren place where the devil waited to tempt Him. We should never doubt God's leading just because we run into temptation. That is often God's way of testing us.

Put your faith, hope, and trust in God. Do not look at your circumstances. Commit yourself to doing what He requires of you. Cling to the promises in His Word. Then when desperation pulls at your heart, you can cry out to Him, knowing that He hears your every word and will answer and provide the encouragement you need to hold out in the face of adversity.

I am bigger than anything that can happen to me. All these things, sorrow, misforturne, and suffering, are outside my door. I am in the house, and I have the key.

One can't learn much and also be comfortable One can't learn much and let anybody else be comfortable

They call this war a cloud over the land. But they made the weather and then they stand in the rain and say 'Shit, it's raining!

I should regret very much to have you miss the glorious feeling of accomplishment and I know you are not going to let me down. Remember that often adversity is a blessing in disguise and is certainly the greatest character builder.

that this was a lesson my father impressed on me at an early age: "Often adversity is a blessing in disguise and is certainly the greatest character builder." Fred Koch's

Understand that at times, you will feel uncomfortable. View that discomfort as progress; it's part of how you overcome your fears.

Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.

He that is uneasy at every little pain is never without some ache.

I don't cry over spilt milk, but a fallen scoop of ice cream is enough to ruin my whole day.

...certain it is that minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort...

Life isn't fair, but it's still good.

There were growling days and laughing days and days that mixed them up.

Despite our fears and worries, and they are very real to all of us, life continues — it goes on. In these three words I can sum up everything I have learned in my 80 years about life — it goes on.

Life. — Enjoy whatever flowers come with the manure.

Life is a battlefield of broken dreams and pieced-together victories.

Sometimes life gives honey and other times, stings; Sometimes we need roots and other times, wings.

Life: that narrow space between a rock and a hard place.

When everything doesn't go perfectly as hoped, it isn't tragedy — it's life.

Don't spend too much of your life avoiding the sharp edges of shattered dreams.

Love blooms all sorts of flowers, thorns, and nettles.

I remembered Tucker telling me that luck was no lady; luck was a mean drunk who didn't know when to stop punching.

No one will dispute me when I say that the only thing that overcomes hard luck is hard work.