Quotes About Adversity

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

Sometimes new opportunity means new opposition. Not everything God asks us to do will be comfortable.

God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.

Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.

Your enemies, your critics, the people that are trying to push you down-God can use them to push you up.

I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.

Like Jonah, you may lose your gourd, but you cannot lose your God.

Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!

I was brought into situations God couldn't get out of, and I got out of them.

One difficulty follows another very fast - but God reigns, not chance.

Paraphrased: The way of al-Junayd includes among other things abstaining constantly from resisting God Most High in whatever happens to one, whether good or bad. . . .

God is not a killjoy; he just opposes what kills joy.

The old Devil gets mad when you're trying to do good. Pray that God will move the stumbling blocks.

Make a habit to remember God in your perfectly beautiful days, because in bad days even atheists do remember Him!

When I broke my arm, I knew there was something a lot bigger than baseball (about to happen) ... I had a sense that God had something for me, something bigger than baseball.

Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.

God willing and the creek don't rise

When we resist God, we draw near to Satan.

If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.

God will lead you into a deliverance where the means that delivers you will be those who would destroy you.

If this is a real work for God it is a real conflict with Satan.

One of my acting teachers once said that rejection is God's protection. There's something in it.

We cannot break God's laws - but we can break ourselves against them.