Quotes About Adversity

The reason so many of us struggle so intensely with adversity is that we have yet to adopt God's perspective and priorities.

Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God.

God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.

When we complain about our current situation, we remain in it; when we praise God in the midst of difficulty, He raises us out of it.

God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.

There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start a new.

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

God allows circumstances to build us up. God has got our back.

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

We are always faced with different challenges, and circumstances necessitate bringing out the greatness God puts in all of us.

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

My faith is so strong that I believe that God made me 5-11 for a reason. For all the kids that have been told, no, that they can't do it, or all the kids that will be told no.

I hit rock bottom, but thank God my bottom wasn't death.

Everything that happens to a child of God, His father filtered and He intends to use it for the good and even when Satan and others mean it for bad because God is sovereignly in control.

God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

Even in bad times, always say thank you. Whatever you are going through, God is using you to get through. God has already put a rainbow in the cloud.

If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.

Never have doubted it, even when the plane crash happened. I wasn't mad at God. I just knew that there was a reason that I didn't know about why it happened.

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

Mobs may assemble, calumny may defame, but the work of God will go forth boldly, nobly, and independent.

God did not intend the human family to be wafted to heaven on flowery beds of ease.

I'm really thankful to God, man. Like now, I'm really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.

People face difficulties, no matter who you are. I faced difficulties with a lot of things. I face opposition every day, but I didn't kill myself and now, thank God, I'm here.

We should not seek to confirm God's will by the absence of adversity.