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Quotes About Adversity

The word of God steadies me. He says your trials and tribulations make you who you are. So you can see my whole story in the way I endured and overcame some testing experiences.
~ Evander Holyfield
God has given me the bread of adversity and the water of trouble.
~ Anne Askew
The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
~ Thomas Guthrie
When we're in the storm we learn more about the character of the God we serve than when we're on the mountaintop.
~ Natalie Grant
If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.
~ Yogi Berra
Most of the verses written about praise in God's Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
You know, I feel that God isn't going to put something in front of me that I can't deal with.
~ Lloyd Banks
You'll face overwhelming odds; you'll be incredibly outnumbered. Fear would be your natural inclination. But keep in mind, God is with you.
~ James MacDonald
Everything now will prepare you for the next step. Don't run from adversity; lean into it with all your heart and God will make you a leader worth following.
~ Andy Stanley
Keep in mind that God's sovereignty allows Him to even use that which is not cooperating with Him (the bad) in order to move things to where He wants them to go.
~ Tony Evans
For there is no one so great or mighty that he can avoid the misery that will rise up against him when he resists and strives against God.
~ John Calvin
God made me an Indian, but not a reservation Indian.
~ Sitting Bull
Many times I have thanked God for a bite of raw dog.
~ Robert Peary
A thick hide is a gift from God.
~ Konrad Adenauer
That that don't kill me, can only make me stronger.
~ Kanye West
His enemies had counted on the lions taking care of Daniel. What they hadn't counted on was his God taking care of Daniel.
~ Tony Evans
Too often we try to use God to change our circumstance, when God is trying to use our circumstance to change us.
~ Nicky Gumbel
It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.
~ Ayn Rand
In our adversity, God shouts to us.
~ C. S. Lewis
It's the character that is the strongest that God gives the most challenges to. Take your struggles as a compliment.
~ Carroll O'Connor
Sometimes, God uses difficult people, like sandpaper, to rub the rough edges off us.
~ Joel Osteen
Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
We should be reminding ourselves that no matter how many problems may be facing us, the One Who is with us is greater than all those who oppose us.
~ Joyce Meyer
Went from most hated to the Champion God Flow, I guess that's a feelin' only me and LeBron know.
~ Kanye West