Quotes About Adversity

It's not the tragedy that can ruin you—it's your own attitude toward it. You can let adversity make or break you, Jason. It's up to you.

The butterfly needs the hardship to make it strong enough to fly. The struggle pumps fluid to its wings and gives it the strength to survive. If I were to help it by cutting away the chrysalis, it would die. So all we can do is stand back and observe its own efforts to free itself.

Jeremiah 17:9 says, 'The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it?' We can even deceive ourselves into thinking we are Christian or that we are following God. But when adversity comes, the true believer will still weather it standing, though he may go through a fire of doubt. This is God's mercy to us, to strengthen our faith and our hearts. Allow this adversity to bow your knee to God and accept his will.

Though she wouldn't say she would ever pray for adversity, she could see how God had used it in her life.

Struggle and pain aren't something to fear. We will all face trials while here on earth. What matters is how we're dealing with the challenges that come our way. Do we let them mold us into stronger, better people, or do we grouse and complain about our lot in life?

One unfortunate circumstance can change our lives for the worst, and all it takes is an act of kindness to turn it around the other way.

Normal life is not ever perfect. What kind of people would we be if God never allowed our faith to be tested? Adversity makes us stronger.

Colleen Gleason

Don't take life too seriously. Punch it in the face when it needs a good hit. Laugh at it.

The world spins. We stumble on. It is enough.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.

I always take a sudden dislike to those who want everything simple and easy.

My mission shielded me from one kind of trouble and threw me into another.

One with great successes has had equally great hardships.

There may be open doors before me, but I'm always drawn to the one that's locked.

Value your lows just as highly as your highs.

We dance the dance of death with our hands tied behind our backs.

Your heart will get you into trouble, but your strong mind will get you out of it.

If life gives you lemons, make some sort of fruity juice.

Disappointment leads to clarity, which leads to conviction and true originality.

Thirty-five things have to go wrong for the best thing to happen in your career

The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man without trials.

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.