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Quotes About Adversity

God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.
~ Horatius Bonar
When the devil starts messing, God starts blessing.
~ R. W. Schambach
God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from one level to another.
~ Mike Tyson
Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger.
~ Ruth Graham
God show me the way because the Devil trying to break me down
~ Kanye West
This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity.
~ Martin Luther
How blessed to know that when the world hates us, God loves us!
~ Arthur W. Pink
Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.
~ Barbra Streisand
When the slugs penetrate, you feel a burning sensation, Gettin closer to God in a tight situation.
~ Prodigy
The circumstances we ask God to CHANGE are often the circumstances God is using to CHANGE US.
~ Mark Batterson
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
People may hurt you but God will heal you. People may humiliate you but God will honour you. People may judge you but God will justify you.
~ Nicky Gumbel
Through some crack the smoke of satan has entered into the Church of God.
~ Pope Paul VI
Your temptations are from the devil and from Hell; but your sufferings and afflictions are from God and Heaven.
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.
~ John Calvin
It's easy to have faith when everything is going great. The real test of faith is when you're facing something that only your faith in God will get you through.
~ Geoffrey Canada
The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
~ Walter Martin
See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.
~ John of the Cross
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
~ Vance Havner
The easiest thing to find on God's green earth is someone to tell you all the things you cannot do.
~ Richard DeVos
Times are bad, God is good.
~ Richard Sibbes
In prosperity God is heard, and that is a blessing; but in adversity God is seen, and that is a greater blessing.
~ Charles Spurgeon
For anyone having a bad day just remember 'If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.
~ Kim Kardashian